David Cycleback: Big Ideas

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The Psychology Behind False Smears in Political, Social, and Religious Movements
Why Partisan Idealogues Smear Those Who Differ Just a Little
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Discharge: The Revolutionary Force That Shaped Extreme Music
An uncompromising English punk band
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Why Human Brains Are Wired for Music
The neuroscience and psychology
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Why Humans Seek the Beautiful
The Evolutionary and Philosophical Roots of Aesthetics
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How AI Mistakes Teach Us About Ourselves
Both computers and humans use biases and training data
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A Philosopher on UU’s Echo Chamber Problem and Increasing Irrelevancy
The national church and many congregations have become out of touch
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Rudolf Arnheim and Visual Thinking
Art as a Form of Intelligence
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Thinking Without Rules
The Cognitive Science of Dreaming
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My UU Congregation as "A Rapidly Shrinking, Self-Reinforcing Echo Chamber"
Many UU congregations have forgotten what is liberal religion
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The Wisdom of the Wrong
What History Teaches About the Benefits of Mistaken Ideas
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More Evidence That the Unitarian Universalist Church Has Become a Politically Doctrinaire Institution
Children's religious education programming as political indoctrination
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Movements Are Judged By What They Internally Tolerate
Why groups must speak out against their own extremes or risk losing credibility
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