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The psychology of perception of time in elevators
As a technology, elevators were mandatory for having high rise apartments. You really don’t want to climb up 35 flights of stairs to just get home. My experience with elevators (or lifts as they are more commonly called in India) … Continue reading
Posted in cognition, physics, psychology, time, transport
Tagged cognition, elevator, equivalence principle, frame of reference, intertial, perception, physics, psychology, relativity, time
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Unreal and Useless Problems
We had previously talked about problem with contexts given in mathematics problems. This is not new, Thorndike in 1926 made similar observations. Unreal and Useless Problems In a previous chapter it was shown that about half of the verbal problems … Continue reading
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Tagged didactics, education, mathematics, psychology, word problems
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Can general laws of physics explain everything?
Many scientists look on chemistry and physics as ideal models of what psychology should be like. After all, the atoms in the brain are subject to the same all – inclusive physical laws that govern every other form of matter. … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy of science, science, scientists
Tagged emergent phenomena, laws, levels, mind, minksy, physics, psychology, society of mind
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