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    How We Think: Live on Substack
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    How We Think: Live on Substack

    Robert Hamill 27 Aug 20259 Sep 2025Leave a comment

    Come explore Associative Mindworks on Substack—my evolving magazine of how we think.

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    Logical Yet False
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    Logical Yet False

    Robert Hamill 20 Feb 202527 Jun 2025Leave a comment

    Ever witnessed a logical argument that led to a bafflingly false conclusion?

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    Jungle Rope Solution
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    Jungle Rope Solution

    Robert Hamill 10 Oct 202330 Mar 2024Leave a comment

    Create a test case which depends only the new feature and involves as little as possible of other tool features.

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    Implicit Learning
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    Implicit Learning

    Robert Hamill 18 Jul 202328 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    Implicit learning is important, but the only thing we can control is our conscious decisions.

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    Emergence: Mind from Brain
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    Emergence: Mind from Brain

    Robert Hamill 12 Jan 202327 Feb 2024Leave a comment

    Almost Gate. Two things, almost the same, get treated as the same.

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    Illogical
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    Illogical

    Robert Hamill 30 Dec 202228 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    Looking for a pattern is a completely legitimate style of thinking. It doesn't use logic. It counts features until an Almost Match.

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    Thinking Dimensions
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    Thinking Dimensions

    rhamill2004 4 Jan 202125 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    Our dimensional favoritism is preconscious, yet it affects us daily.

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    Russia, Oil Prices, and the Ruble
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    Russia, Oil Prices, and the Ruble

    Robert Hamill 6 Apr 202022 Jan 20241 Comment

    A dropping oil price inevitably causes the ruble to fall.

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    It’s the truth, but …
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    It’s the truth, but …

    Robert Hamill 6 Aug 201931 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    How can telling the truth not benefit decision-making? When only a selective truth is told, with many related true facts are ignored. Listeners readily make…

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    Political Framing Issues
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    Political Framing Issues

    Robert Hamill 7 May 20191 Feb 2023Leave a comment

    It is up to the free press to put the various perspectives in a rational perspective when the stories themselves are being told.

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

    Visit Substack to Delve into How We Think

    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    War Powers Act

    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)