What makes the “you” from yesterday the same person as the “you” today? A frightening experience with transient global amnesia — a sudden but temporary malfunction of memory — left a professor wondering about the true nature of the self, and the importance of memory in tying together your experiences into one complete being; he didn’t feel like he was the same person who experienced the amnesia, because he had no memory of the experience. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
