object permanence Concepts

Spoiled Brats: Short Stories

by Simon Rich · 14 Oct 2014 · 178pp · 43,631 words

said. My mother was standing behind him, in her usual grooming position. Neither looked up at me. “They tested me on memory, pattern recognition, and object permanence,” I told them. “There were dozens of chimps, but I scored the highest.” “Good for you,” my father grumbled, his voice thick with sarcasm. Nobody

Critical Failures II (Caverns and Creatures Book 2)

by Bevan, Robert · 12 Oct 2013

window. The setting sun painted orange clouds on the pink sky. As the sky grew darker, the streetlamps, which he guessed must each contain an object permanently enchanted with a Light spell, began to take over the sun’s job of keeping the city streets lit. After the hustle and bustle of

Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

by Bethany Webster · 5 Jan 2021 · 311pp · 88,103 words

, if we have a fight and never discuss it afterward, then we believe the conflict no longer exists. Developmental psychologists discuss the developmental stage of “object permanence,” in which a child learns that even though objects do not appear, they continue to exist. For example, if a caregiver hides a stuffed animal

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blanket, there’s a developmental point when a child knows that the stuffed animal is still there even though it’s out of view. Like object permanence, this cultural form of denial seems like a failed cultural developmental step of “emotion permanence.” Emotion permanence means taking responsibility for our emotions and their

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez · 27 Jun 2016 · 559pp · 155,372 words

that while people commonly make phone calls and write emails, few if any people address and post an ad. Like infants who haven’t learned object permanence yet, the Facebook whiners see an ad, the Facebook logo, and assume it’s all connected. Make the ad go away, and they don’t

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

by Kelly Weill · 22 Feb 2022

. Anyway, it was a rhetorical argument. Knowledge does not work this way. For the sake of sanity and advancing beyond a toddler’s grasp of object permanence, we are constantly evaluating information out of our limited fields of view. When a friend relates a funny story, we likely trust that it happened

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon · 1 Jan 2002 · 445pp · 129,068 words

soft, dark place and not come out until morning. It is morning. It is still morning and we—I—have not had lunch. Object permanence. What I need is object permanence. What Lou-before read about it in a book—a book heread, a book I do not quite remember but also do remember

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: they see a table morphing from one shape to another as they walk by. Page 223 I was not blind from birth. Lou-before had object permanence in his visual processing. I can have it, too. I had it, until I tried to read the story… I can feel the pounding of

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needed a break, isall. ” “Better come out, buddy,” he says. “They’re startin ’ to freak out here.” Sighing, I stand up and unlatch the door. Object permanence retains its shape as I walk out; the walls and floor stay as flat as they should; the gleam of light off shiny surfaces doesn

The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words

most favored nation trade status among APEC members.”73 A review of its negotiating positions revealed that “China has sought to achieve multilaterally a policy objective—permanent MFN status from the United States—it has not been able to achieve bilaterally.”74 APEC ambassador Wang Yusheng conceded in his memoirs that “the

Programming Python

by Mark Lutz · 5 Jan 2011

our database is still a transient object in memory, it turns out that this dictionary-of-dictionaries format corresponds exactly to a system that saves objects permanently—the shelve (yes, this should probably be shelf, grammatically speaking, but the Python module name and term is shelve). To learn how, let’s move

The Age of Wonder

by Richard Holmes · 15 Jan 2008 · 778pp · 227,196 words

was psychologically, even spiritually, therapeutic. ‘It may destroy diseases of the imagination, owing to too deep a sensibility; and it may attach the affections to objects, permanent, important, and intimately related to the interests of the human species.’ The value of science was, in this sense, universal, ‘even to persons of powerful

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

by Stephen Budiansky · 10 May 2021 · 406pp · 108,266 words

is based only on appearance, he insisted, and appearances are nothing but “the world of our own sensations.” Thus, there are no such things as objects, permanence, or even reality in any objective sense. Mach’s public lectures were avidly attended by the denizens of Young Vienna, who credited his ideas as