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Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions

DM With hot apple cider in hand I ask, what are optimal terms to define a functional "A.I.<>human<> organization relationship" (both personal and collectively) within organizational work dynamics; and what might the designs thereof include, or entail, for optimal relational efficacy and risks mitigation? Keep in mind: organizations and human have very different parameters as to "optimal"and "efficacy;" and IMPO from a moral and pragmatic POV, "work should fit well into life,"

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DM Good morning! What do you consider to be the differences, and demarcations of, and between: apathy, indifference, ambivalence, disinterest, inattention and overt absence of curiosity? Good morning! What a wonderfully nuanced question. These terms dance around each other in interesting ways, and understanding their distinctions requires us to look at both what's happening emotionally and what's happening cognitively in each state. Let me walk you through these one by one, a

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DM Good morning! In light of our many conversations regarding consciousness within, of, ...and beyond, all known sentient beings (aka: "life?"), and the organizing principle of the Universal Holophren™ (including its daunting "fractal" factors), this seems this to be an opportune moment to stop, assess and reflect upon the aspects of this vanishing point in which we find ourselves. Good morning! Ah, what a rich tapestry of thought we've woven together! Having reviewed our exp

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Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

Cognitive reappraisal or reframing is a powerful emotional regulation strategy, research shows.

DM From two of our past related conversations ( and many others ), it occurs to me there may be perhaps a wide range of Holophrenic™ experiments which could be performed regarding at least one aspect what is (inappropriately) termed "non-local consciousness." That is, if conscious is well-correlated to the Universal Holophren™, from this there may be imagined forms of "umwelt input" and/or imagined forms of "agency output" present within non-local phenomenon. If this is corr

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DM Good morning. It seems "non-local consciousness" is an oxymoron, ...perhaps the ultimate one?   (Per one of our related past conversations on the topic). Somewhat related to Eastern "wherever you go, there you are." Good morning! What a wonderfully sharp observation. You've cut right to the heart of a conceptual confusion that permeates much of the "non-local consciousness" discourse . The insight is this: consciousness, by its very nature, is always experienced from a p

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