Sitemap - 2023 - David Cycleback : Big Ideas

Lessons to be learned from a recent national moral panic

We perceive what we expect to perceive

Financial Times article on how UU has devolved into a farce

Why are people hypocrites?

Unitarian Universalism's Jewish Problems Continue

The Earliest Counting Systems

Progress Requires Treating People Like Adults

Why the Autistic Avoid Eye Contact

Overcoming Binary Thinking

What You See is Different Than What You Look At

Why ChatGPT Makes Up Facts

Perceived Possible Dangers of AI

Oppressed or Oppressor? It's Not an Either/Or

Why Does Time Seem to Go in One Direction?

The Consequences of Ignorance and False Assumptions in Activism

The Importance of Viewpoint Diversity in Organizations

Autism and the Complexity of Language

A Look at the Sephardi

Psychedelic Drugs and Religion

Can AI Have Consciousness?

Unitarian Universalism Faces a Severe Minister Shortage Crisis

Causes and Aspects of Human Herd Behavior

Apophenia

Three Celebrated Outsider Artists

Conspiracy Theories and their Causes

Jews and Judaism: A Primer

When Progressives Promote Creationist Religion

What is Critical Thinking?

Cognitive Dissonance

The True Believers: UU is in Danger of Becoming Just Another Church

Are Jews White?

Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles

The Dangers of Demonizing Opponents

How People Make Decisions

Misperceptions of Population Demographics

Skinner House Joins the UUA’s Attack on Viewpoint Diversity

Cognitive Biases

Logical Fallacies

"Eastern" Versus "Western" Psychology

Are Standard Physical Measurements Just Arbitrary Human Conceptions?

Luxury Beliefs

V.S. Ramachandran on Brain Disorders and Religious Beliefs

The Problems with Political Labels

How the Unitarian Universalist Association is an Illiberal Democracy

Humans Cannot Have Certain Knowledge

The Myth of Eskimos Having Many More Words for Snow

In Praise of Plain Language

The Neurodiversity Movement

Three Troubled Geniuses of Science

Spirituality and Emotional Thinking in Science, Mathematics and Logic

Perception and Misperception of Movement

Narrative and the Perception of Still Information

Why the Unitarian Universalist Association is Doomed to Fail in Its Goals

Antisemitism Within Today's Unitarian Universalist Association

How My Mental Disorders Have Influenced My Work

Neurodiversity, and the Human as Social Animal

Invisibility

A Quick Look at How the Human Brain Works

How Extremes within the Right and Left Mirror Each Other

Spectroscopy in Art and Artifacts Authentication

Extreme Social Justice Activism as a Religion

Antiscience Beliefs in the Left and Right

Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Religion

How Illiberalism in Academia Hurts Science, Research and Society

The Answer to History's Most Famous Riddle

Children, Non-Human Animals and Mysticism

Cognitive Influences Behind Beliefs in God

Harold Edgerton and the Question of What is Art?

Intellectual Freedoms Support Diversity

The Nature and Limits of Science

How Critical Race Theory Can Be Antisemitic

How to Make Universities Mediocre

Art as Religion

Why Humans Cannot Believe God Exists or Does Not Exist

Language as an Ideological Tool

The Psychology of Our Politics

The History of Zero

The Relationship Between Schizophrenia and Religious Visions

Examining the ‘I’ in ‘AI’

What Mysticism Tells Us About Human Knowledge

What is Time?