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		<title>Congition &#8211; Imagination &#8211; Restrictions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Zen and the art of motor cycle maintainence contains this short story on a failure of imagination: He&#8217;d been innovating extensively. He&#8217;d been having trouble with students who had nothing to say. At first he thought it was laziness but later it became apparent that it wasn&#8217;t. They just couldn&#8217;t think of anything to say. [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Anton Wilson describes The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon, in which the amount of time it takes for society to double their current level of knowledge has been shrinking at an exponential rate. The entire range of human thought has been doubling increasingly quickly since before the time of Jesus. Raymond Kurzweil takes a more rigorous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Imagination &#8211; Distraction Activity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anecdotes about great artistic, philosophical and scientific discoveries coming to people as they sleep abound. Paul McCartney is said to have dreamed up the tune for &#8220;Yesterday&#8221;, Shelly to have been asleep when Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster came to mind, a snake eating it&#8217;s own tail was the dream-prompt that lead to the discovery of the structure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Intuition &#8211; What Is Intuition?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Transcendence Institute we often describe a thorough gut-level understanding by using the analogy of catching a ball. In order to learn to catch a ball you don&#8217;t go and study the equations which govern the parabolic arc under which the ball will fly, or the science behind the air pressure which drives the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Intuition &#8211; Intuition Heirarchy</title>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Intuition &#8211; Becoming More Intuitive</title>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Intuition &#8211; Stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Reason &#8211; Reason</title>
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		<title>Cognition &#8211; Reason &#8211; Brain Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we briefly listed some of the basic mental skills on which reason is based. Improving any one of those skills will likely lead to better reasoning abilities. The obvious question is then, how do you improve those skills? Practice If you&#8217;ve been reading the entire course, you won&#8217;t be surprised to find that [...]]]></description>
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