Readings for M S17

Teachers,

As we rejigger the schedule, we need to relate readings.  Pay no attention to what is on the syllabus at this moment.  For class on Saturday, September 15, we will address you initial data gathering work and discuss Plato's "allegory of the cave.'  For Monday, September 17, please link through and process the following article on cognitive biases.  They are short and related; plus, they build on our discussion on consciousness begun last year in the Equity course.

As always, questions and comments are welcome.

Thanks.
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Barry Rithoz presents a list of the "ten most common cognitive errors"

Jonah Lehrer

• The Eureka hunt, from the New Yorker
• from his blog, "Learning to forget"

Sean Carrol, blogging at Discover, "Remembering the past is like imagining the future"

from the BBC, on why we tune out

from ScienceDaily

• "Believing is seeing; thoughts color perception"
• "Attention makes sensory signals stand out against background noise"
• "Seeing without looking"
• "Attention and awareness uncoupled"

on 'motivated reasoning'

• from the New York Times
• and again
• and again again
• from the Boston Globe

from The Guardian (London), "The story of the self; how reliable are our memories?"