We may also at times have a kind of sugary myopia about the choices we've made. This rosy view of what we have done may help us enjoy the present moment, which is perhaps invariably a mix of ease and challenge, by focusing on the positive. But our tendency to view our past choices as monolithically good can also stifle our curiosity and cut us off from our ability to experience the fullness of life in the moment. What helps you love your choices without clinging to them?
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
[image description: Two hearts stand together. The heart on the left has its arms thrown up in celebration and exclaims, "I got a cat! It's already so much better than living with a snake or a fish," to which the heart on the right stares back blankly. Nearby a cat arches its back and vomits on the ground. Text reads: "Choice-Supportive Bias: Viewing past choices as the better of the options, and what we did not choose as less favorable."]
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