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Counter-Intuitive Thinking
Topics
- Presocratics
- Counter-Intuitives in History (Perverse Outcomes)
- Counter-intuitive examples
- Conflicts in counter-intuitive thinking
- Articles using Counter Intuitive
- Toward a conceptual trajectory
Pre-Socratics
| Pre-Socratic Philosopher | Year | The idea that was not supernatural, but natural |
|---|---|---|
| Thales | ~550s BC | Water |
| Anaximander | ~550s BC | - |
| Anaximenes | ~530s BC | - |
| Pythagoras | ~480s BC | - |
| Heraclitus | ~510s BC | - |
| Empedocles | ~420s BC | - |
| Anaxagoras | ~430s BC | - |
| Democritus | ~380s BC | - |
Counter-Intuitives in History (Perverse Outcomes)
Counter-Intuitives Examples
- Kiosks: for clerks, not customers.
- Science: cannot be believed or trusted
- Reading: out loud; moving one's lips
- Spelling errors: use in spam to gatekeep smart people
Conflicts in counter-intuitive thinking
- Seeking AN answer (as if there must be one), or the right/correct answer--the answer that will get a kudos. These are mechanisms of feeling that compel us to seek MORE intuition rather than understanding the counter-intuitive.
- The dunning kruger of learning a new philosophy and not understanding how it fits with other ideas--thinking it's just unnecessarily deep, verbose or mouthy.
Articles using Counter Intuitive
- Why you might be more pessimistic when things are actually going well [article]
- Baby Boomers are More Sensitive Than Millennials. [article]
- The Times is publishing a new investigation of life inside an Amazon warehouse. [article]
- Ideas that work: Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins [article]
Toward a conceptual trajectory
(paper:two pages)
- Describe dolphins, not physical appearance, but their conceptual arrangement
- Why Dolphins Are Deep Thinkers [article]
- After reading the article, re write that conceptual trajectory
- It's not called "The Relevance"; it's called the news. FOMO and superficial worldliness
- News Is Bad For You – and Giving Up Reading it Will Make You Happier [article]
- This is not about being happy; what is it really about?
- Discuss the role of reasoning in creativity.
- Suppressing the reasoning part of the brain stimulates creativity, scientists find [article]
- "When the [dorsolateral prefrontal cortex] was ‘cooled down’, the brain seems to have stopped applying old rules [learned from experience], and been more successful at finding new rules – this is the essence of creativity in problem-solving"
- Discuss your position people taking food selfies and posting them
- Bless Us, O Instagram [article]
- The article does not justify food selfies; what does it do?
- What is your advice to others about having a good work ethic at a job.
- Why You Should Hate Your Job [article]
- the article is not suggesting we should just force ourselves to hate work or our job; what is the point of the article?
- endorsement of the “American Dream” is related to negative attitudes toward impoverished people
- Seeing the dark side of the American Dream
- Describe yourself as a trajectory, not a pop-pysch list or physical appearance
- Gasset's "Man has no Nature" [Full Article]
- seeing a person as a conceptual trajectory not as a defined schema of behaviours
- Yes, this is difficult--Not sure if THIS helps, or not.
- 1-1/2 to 2 pages. Follow this formatting
- Submit via email as an ATTACHMENT to the email (No sharepoint, one drive, or google docs).
- Label the Word document as LastnameTrajectory.docx