This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

In this Audiobook

• “Deep Time” and the Far Future
• We are Unique
• The Mediocrity Principle
• The Pointless Universe
• The Copernican Principle
• We are Not Alone in the Universe
• Microbes Run the World
• The Double-Blind Control Experiment
• Promoting a Scientific Lifestyle
• Experimentation
• The Controlled Experiment
• Gedankenexperiment
• The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science
• Each of Us is Ordinary, Yet One of a Kind
• Nexus Causality, Moral Warfare, and Misattribution Arbitrage
• Self-Serving Bias
• Cognitive Humility
• Technologies Have Biases
• Bias is the Nose for the Story
• Control Your Spotlight
• The Focusing Illusion
• The Uselessness of Certainty
• Uncertainty
• A Sense of Proportion about Fear of the Unknown
• Because
• The Name Game
• Living is Fatal
• Uncalculated Risk
• Truth is a Model
• E Pluribus Unum
• A Proxemics of Urban Sexuality
• Failure Liberates Success
• Holism
• TANSTAAFL
• Skeptical Empiricism
• Open Systems
• Non-Inherent Inheritance
• Shifting Baseline Syndrome
• PERMA
• Positive-Sum Games
• The Snuggle for Existence
• The Law of Comparative Advantage
• Structured Serendipity
• The World is Unpredictable
• Randomness
• The Kaleidoscopic Discovery Engine
• Inference to the Best Explanation
• Pragmamorphism
• Cognitive Load
• To Curate
• “Graceful” SHAs
• Externalities
• Everything is in Motion
• Subselves and the Modular Mind
• Predictive Coding
• Our Sensory Desktop
• The Senses and the Multisensory
• The Umwelt
• The Rational Unconscious
• We are Blind to Much That Shapes Our Mental Life
• An Instinct to Learn
• Think Bottom up, Not Top down
• Fixed-Action Patterns
• Powers of 10
• Life Code
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Cycles
• Keystone Consumers
• Cumulative Error
• Cultural Attractors
• Scale Analysis
• Hidden Layers
• “Science”
• The Expanding In-Group
• Contingent Superorganisms
• The Pareto Principle
• Find That Frame
• Wicked Problems
• Anthropocene Thinking
• Homo Dilatus
• We are Lost in Thought
• The Phenomenally Transparent Self-Model
• Correlation is Not a Cause
• Information Flow
• Thinking in Time versus Thinking outside of Time
• Negative Capability is a Profound Therapy
• Depth
• Temperament Dimensions
• The Personality/Insanity Continuum
• ARISE
• Sysstemic Equilibrium
• Projective Thinking
• Anomalies and Paradigms
• Recursive Structure
• Designing Your Mind
• Free Jazz
• Collective Intelligence
• Risk Literacy
• Science versus Theater
• The Base Rate
• Findex
• An Assertion is Often an Empirical Question, Settled by Collecting Evidence
• Scientists Should Be Scientists
• Bricoleur
• Science's Methods aren't Just for Science
• The Game of Life—and Looking for Generators
• Anecdotalism
• You Can Show That Something is Definitely Dangerous but Not That it's Definitely Safe
• Absence and Evidence
• Path Dependence
• Interbeing
• The Other
• Ecology
• Dualites
• Dualities
• The Paradox
• Hunting for Root Cause: The Human “Black Box”
• Personal Data Mining
• Parallelism in Art and Commerce
• Innovation
• The Gibbs Landscape
• Black Swan Technologies
• Kakonomics
• Kayfabe
• Einstein's Blade in Ockham's Razor
• Heat-Seeking Missiles
• Entanglement
• Technology Paved the Way for Humanity
• Time Span of Discretion
• Defeasibility
• Aether
• Knowledge as a Hypothesis
• The Einstellung Effect
• Homo Sensus Spiens: The Animal That Feels and Reasons
• Understanding Confabulation
• Sexual Selection
• QED Moments
• Objects of Understanding and Communication
• Life as a Side Effect
• The Veeck Effect
• Supervenience!
• The Culture Cycle
• Phase Transitions and Scale Transitions
• Replicability
• Ambient Memory and the Myth of Neutral Observation
• A Statistically Significant Difference in Understanding the Scientific Process
• The Dece(i)bo Effect
• Anthropophilia
• A Solution for Collapsed Thinking: Signal Detection Theory
• Everyday Apophenia
• A Cognitive Toolkit Full of Garbage