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All of Us Are Like This 7-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Like His Story-Making to Be Interrupted

Posted on December 11, 2009, 5:31 pm, by admin, under Uncategorized.

Friends of ours told us the other night about their grandson, now 7, who lives just down the street from them. That means he spends a lot of nights at their place, school nights included. And that means either his grandmother or his granddad (but usually his grandmother) is freighted with the task of rousting [...]

Tags: Carp, Clare W. Graves, Deep See Change Dolphin, First Dolphin, Michael Gazzaniga, Prime Dolphin, Shark, Strategy of the Dolphin, the Interpreter, The Mind's Past
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This Family Is Learning as They Go What It’s Like to Have a Child In Their Midst Whose Behavior Resembles a Pint-Sized Henry Kissinger’s—That Is, A Big Picture Thinker

Posted on August 4, 2009, 1:18 pm, by admin, under Uncategorized.

Today’s commentary was prompted by listening to one mother’s frustration with a precocious, hyperactive six-year-old. Among other things, she says, “He never quits asking questions.” He also seems to be an extremely healthy demonstration of what chaos scientists call “self-organized criticality,” about which I’ll say more in detail later.
In general terms, this kid’s brain cycles [...]

Tags: Andrew Sobel, big picture thinkers, Brock Eide, Butterfly Effect, children's brains, Fernette Eide, fMRI, Henry Kissinger, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Feynman, Robert Thacker, self-organized criticality, Sherlock Holmes
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Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gazzaniga’

All of Us Are Like This 7-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Like His Story-Making to Be Interrupted

This Family Is Learning as They Go What It’s Like to Have a Child In Their Midst Whose Behavior Resembles a Pint-Sized Henry Kissinger’s—That Is, A Big Picture Thinker

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