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Conscience, Time, and Life 121 the Mercy internal world. “Some patients with orbitofrontal lesions show a tendency to eat excess ...

122 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind I suggest that conscience and patience both involve exactly the same mental circuitry. Over ...

Conscience, Time, and Life 123 Perceiver internal world can also be believed with varying levels of confidence.A It is the inter ...

124 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind Second, the punishment may be too harsh. If Johnny gets a very severe beating for his misde ...

Conscience, Time, and Life 125 Finally, the time span between crime and punishment may be too great. In order for conscience to ...

126 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind Perceiver belief is easily confused by feelings; a strongly emotional denial can therefore ...

Conscience, Time, and Life 127 For instance, during the time of American slavery, whites were able to live in luxury while treat ...

EPISTEMOLOGY Epistemology is the study of knowing. Religion and philosophy have both spent millennia grappling with the issue of ...

Epistemology 129 manage to give myself several years of tendinitis and I did get acquainted with the local health clinic. Becaus ...

130 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind with facts. Schools load us with information. Researchers gather statistics and numbers. Th ...

Epistemology 131 experience of potato farms, then the laws which he passes will lack common sense—because he does not know that ...

132 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind I suggest that our current focus on eliminating sexual harassment and exalting political co ...

Epistemology 133 these conditions. Operation under this emotional stress builds Perceiver confidence, which in turn allows the P ...

134 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind Perceiver strategy realizes suddenly that Mercy feelings of „good‟ and „bad‟ have no bearin ...

Epistemology 135 Here is an example. Suppose that I see a terrible car accident and that in the middle of this wreck there is a ...

136 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind Perceiver mode sees similarities between many Mercy experiences.  The common arrangement ...

Epistemology 137 “Because!”—exclamation mark included. He will insist that facts are learned instantly, and will reject the idea ...

138 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind with modern society. However, we shall see later that these two are not always connected. T ...

Epistemology 139 appear solid, but if stress is applied, then it immediately begins to crumble. This is because there are no str ...

140 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind This process seems to be inevitable. In order to evaluate connections rationally, Perceiver ...