Machine: A White Space Novel
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Oct 2020 · 537pp · 146,610 words
… calm. Maybe Zhiruo’s therapy was helping. I suppose nothing is likely to make you more anxious than feeling like you can’t handle the cognitive load that’s expected of you. That you’re used to handling. I found her a dictionary easily enough. It didn’t take long to translate
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neglect to maintain, because I could never forget the machine. But when I was in the machine I wasn’t in the pain. And the cognitive load of servicing the machine was so much less than that of servicing the pain that I got a heck of a lot of other things
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? You intentionally fooled us into believing you were a crew member on Big Rock Candy Mountain?” Her face clouded. Not with anger, but with confusion. Cognitive load. “I—” The lost look she gave me reminded me of Helen. Or of somebody with brain damage struggling to make sense of inputs that did
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something I have to think about. Something to consider each dia. Something to maintain, and the body within it needs maintenance, too. A piece of cognitive load. One more damned thing to take into account. And it’s a symbol of not being able to always do everything, all the time, right
Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
by Designing The Mind and Ryan A Bush · 10 Jan 2021
Desire Regulation, Reprint edition (New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2016). Lotte Dillen, Esther Papies, and Wilhelm Hofmann, “Turning a Blind Eye to Temptation: How Cognitive Load Can Facilitate Self-Regulation,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 104 (December 31, 2012), https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031262. “The Grateful Disposition: A Conceptual
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
by Michael P. Lynch · 21 Mar 2016 · 230pp · 61,702 words
itself. Writing allows us to communicate across time—both with ourselves and with others. It allows us to outsource memory tasks and therefore lessen our cognitive load. Not long ago, for example, I discovered a note my father had written, taped to the back of an old chainsaw I had inherited from
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the same way that reflecting or deciding are mental acts. They are activities that your mind engages in. They take effort and increase the total cognitive load. Don’t confuse the state of understanding and the act of coming to understand. One can be in a state of understanding, just as one
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman · 2 Sep 2008 · 358pp · 95,115 words
driving, their reaction times are delayed because they have not yet internalized the grammar of driving—they have to think about it. This increases the cognitive load, and their ability to maintain attention is stressed to capacity. They are on the verge of making poor decisions. Put a friend in the car
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris · 5 Oct 2010 · 412pp · 115,266 words
brain has been widely implicated in error detection (Schall, Stuphorn, & Brown, 2002) and response conflict (Gehring & Fencsik, 2001), and it regularly responds to increases in cognitive load and interference (Bunge, Ochsner, Desmond, Glover, & Gabrieli, 2001). It has also been shown to play a role in the perception of pain (Coghill, McHaffie, & Yen
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
by Steffen Mau · 12 Jun 2017 · 254pp · 69,276 words
a result, we inevitably resort to simplifying heuristics for guidance. We have to be economical with our attention (Franck 1998), and rankings serve to reduce cognitive load. They are a means of creating commensurability, which often translates confusing and complex differences into easily graspable inequalities, or hierarchies. All rankings establish a clear
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
those telescopes and compasses building up to computers, the Internet and AI – could coalesce and transmogrify: tools from AI to virtual worlds that outsource the cognitive load; designer drugs that supercharge cognition and perception; and ultimately the fusion of organic and inorganic constructs to further evolve our intelligences and consciousness. The lines
Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
by David Halpern · 26 Aug 2015 · 387pp · 120,155 words
how welfare systems might be adapted, not just by throwing more money at them, but by avoiding systems and processes that factor in this unseen cognitive load. We have seen similar glimpses in our own work. The reworking of the interaction between jobseekers and advisers in UK jobcentres, by Rory Gallagher, Alex
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
by Colin Ellard · 14 May 2015 · 313pp · 92,053 words
privacy and protection. Indeed, John Locke, in his book Eavesdropping: An Intimate History, has argued that the wall was designed to protect us from the cognitive load of having to keep track of the activities of strangers as we moved from tiny agrarian settlements to larger villages and, eventually, cities where it
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
have done, there are unexpected twists and turns. The number of moving parts as conditions morph make huge demands not merely on physical endurance, but cognitive load. Mountaineering is, in this sense, what theorists call a VUCA environment: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. II Psychologists and anthropologists don’t agree about much
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