All,
Here is your assignment for tomorrow.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281410347_Comparative_psychology_and_the_recursive_structure_of_filter_explanations
There will be a quiz: What is the difference between a circular explanation
and a recursive one. What is the key
About 30 years ago there was a long article in the New Yorker about
problems of mental health diagnosis and treatment. It was based on a real
patient who was given the fictitious name of Sylvia Frumpkin. The
consensus diagnosis for her was schizophrenia but one Asian Indian resident
said her diag
No worries. The thing is, though, with cancer and pneumonia we do have well
evidenced, reproducible, mechanistic hypotheses. That makes those hypotheses
way more robust and trustworthy than personality disorders. So while there may
be some deeply embedded circular reasoning in any diagnosis, t
I apologize, Glen. Please replace "cancer" with "pneumonia".
Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918
On Jan 18, 2017 6:16 PM, "Frank Wimberly" wrote:
> Why is my husband unable to breathe and coughs all the time? And what is
> this large white area on his chest x-ray?
>
> He has lung cancer.
>
>
Why is my husband unable to breathe and coughs all the time? And what is this
large white area on his chest x-ray?
He has lung cancer.
How do you know?
Because he has difficulty breathing, he coughs constantly, and he has a
positive chest x-ray.
Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz
Santa Fe
The New York Times article seems to conflate geography like a party game,
Twister. It starts in Norway switches to Sweden, Finland, Lithuania Kalingrad
and keeps returning to fear and Russia.
They should have provided a map to keep track of the game pieces.
The Norwegians share an interest i
I found this opinion refreshing:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Elect
http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2017/01/16/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and-the-president-elect/
I particularly liked the (strawman) circularity caricatured by conflating
phenomenology with on
“You probably think this song is about you”
— Carly Simon
--Barry
On 17 Jan 2017, at 15:28, Nick Thompson wrote:
Hi, Frank,
Isn’t that an example of itself?
“This book was written about me”.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark Universi
>From Aljazeera
Small hands big missiles: Trump's dangerous adolescence
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/01/small-hands-big-missiles-trump-dangerous-adolescence-170109061803090.html?utm_source=Al+Jazeera+English+Newsletter+%7C+Weekly&utm_campaign=86f19af83c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_15&ut
