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    Active Completion of Internal Worldview
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    Active Completion of Internal Worldview

    Robert Hamill 15 Jan 20137 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Each of us only receives a slice of the entire reality at any particular minute, but our internal world sees it as complete. How?

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    Roads Define Landscape
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    Roads Define Landscape

    Robert Hamill 6 Jan 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Ideas define your thought-scape as roads do the visual landscape.

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    Can you think without words?
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    Can you think without words?

    Robert Hamill 15 Sep 201130 May 2022Leave a comment

    Yes, you can think without words; but many people are so well-schooled that words overwhelm their non-verbal thoughts.

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    Zippy Slogans and Ponderous Details
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    Zippy Slogans and Ponderous Details

    Robert Hamill 12 Aug 201130 May 2022Leave a comment

    It is as non-productive to attack surface arguments from a deep perspective as it is to defend deep positions against bumper slogans which don't acknowledge…

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    Political Mandate
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    Political Mandate

    Robert Hamill 29 Jul 201130 May 2022Leave a comment

    The Republicans used their mandate as a trump card. The Democrats threw theirs into the discard pile.

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    Unintended Consequences

    Robert Hamill 15 Jan 201130 May 2022Leave a comment

    Unwarranted provocations against blacks have led to deaths which were defended by stand your ground laws.

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    Intuition and Reasoning
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    Intuition and Reasoning

    rhamill2004 15 Nov 201017 Dec 20242 Comments

    A lower neural threshold requires fewer matching features to declare a similarity.

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    Subjectivity or Objectivity
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    Subjectivity or Objectivity

    rhamill2004 30 Oct 201022 Nov 20223 Comments

    Objective facts and subjective reactions exist side-by-side in our worldviews.

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