- Sep 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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In terms of evolution, animals adapt to their ecological conditions, but as humans, we have been able to control our ecological conditions.
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- . In terms of evolution, animals adapt to their ecological conditions, but as humans, we have been able to control our ecological conditions.
- author: Ruth Gates
- source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJV0Kx7oGxU&t=496s
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- her remark made me think about how often I feel this difference with our pets. They adapt to whatever we do. We control our environment by building something. They just adapt to whatever we build.
- Our pets never build anything, but simply adapt to what we build.
- her remark made me think about how often I feel this difference with our pets. They adapt to whatever we do. We control our environment by building something. They just adapt to whatever we build.
- personal experience
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- Aug 2023
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royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org
- Aug 2022
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maggieappleton.com maggieappleton.com
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Even though I’m an amateur researcherMeaning I do it as part of my job as a designer and writer, but in a rather a naive way compared to anyone writing a PhD., I still spend a good chunk of time hunting down and reading academic publications.
One really oughtn't downplay their research skills like this, rather they should wear them as a badge of honor. Downplaying them leeches away one's power.
Ph.D. researchers may potentially go deeper into sources, but this is only a function of time and available attention.
This sort of debate also plays out in spaces like writing computer code. The broader industry determines who is and isn't a "coder", but this is only a means of creating power structures that determine who has power and who doesn't or who is part of the conversation and who isn't.
Don't let Maggie fool you here, she is definitely part of this conversation.
What areas of work over time does this pattern of level of experience not apply to?
There is definitely a level of minimal literacy at which one could be considered a reader, but there is no distinction between amateur reader and professional reader the way there might be between an "amateur researcher" and a full time "academic researcher".
Other examples of this? Video game playing?
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- Oct 2021
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www.penguinrandomhouse.ca www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
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Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there.
Reimagining our social architecture might begin with rethinking our past and origins as a species.
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www.cbc.ca www.cbc.ca
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How we interpret and experience the world depends on whether those two brains are working in balance, or whether one is dominant or damaged. That, in turn, shapes the world we live in.
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builderscollective.com builderscollective.com
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Exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together
We are a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community.
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- Sep 2021
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socialarc.com socialarc.com
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Stop Reset Go
How do we engage in bottom-up whole system change? Perhaps we need a model for understanding who we are serving that transcends the bias and limitations of personas as they are used in user experience design (UX).
What is a more holistic model for understanding human perceptions, motivations, and behaviours?
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“We don’t need to bend over backwards to give mathematics relevance. It has relevance in the same way that any art does: that of being a meaningful human experience.”
Paul Lockhart in Lockhart's Lament
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- Sep 2020
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books.google.com books.google.com
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Morland, P. (2015). Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures. Profile Books.
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- Aug 2020
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www.indiebound.org www.indiebound.org
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another | IndieBound.org. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2020, from https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780262043809
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Yamada, Y., Ćepulić, D.-B., Coll-Martín, T., Debove, S., Gautreau, G., Han, H., Rasmussen, J., Tran, T. P., Travaglino, G. A., & Lieberoth, A. (2020). COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v7cep
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- Oct 2016
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gateway.ipfs.io gateway.ipfs.io
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I speak as one who knows your nature because I understand the fabric of life into which your life is interwoven, and I do not see you as separate or apart from this. I see you as part of a greater tapestry of life, a greater tapestry of life in this time, in this world, in this place, in these circumstances, for the tapestry is changing. Let us not confuse, then, your life within the world withyour life beyond, for they are different. If you think they are the same, you will underestimate your life beyond the world, and you will overestimate your life within the world, and you will make some grave misinterpretations of your abilities and your nature while you are here. You are working in a very limited context. You have physical and mental limitations while you are here. You have experienced these limitations, perhaps painfully, but you need to understand them, and you need to recognize them without self-condemnation, for you have limits. You are working through a limited vehicle in your body and a limited vehicle in your mind. The spirit of you, which we call Knowledge, must exercise its Wisdom and its beneficence and its purpose through these limited vehicles and through the circumstances that you face in everyday life.
- "we are spirits in the material world"
- "We are spiritual beings having a human experience"
or as I jokingly say:
- 'I am a Pleiadian being having a Human experience.'
Of course you're in a limited state. Being in a body is a limited state. It's a great nuisance carrying around this hunk-feeding it, housing it, keeping it clean, clothing it, making it beautiful, keeping it comfortable and attending to its many aches and pains. A nuisance, my God! Don't you just want to fly away sometimes? But the body is the garment you wear in being in this world, and it enables you to communicate here. You don't get much attention if you don't have a body and you want to communicate. Then it is hard to get people's attention. And if you do get their attention, you scare the daylights out of them, and they never want to have an experience like that again! So, obviously, our ability to communicate with people in the world seems very limited. We still give them something, but it will arise from within them and they will think it is from themselves.
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