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All we make sense of and we make sense with — concepts, categories, beliefs, ego, truth, goodness, beauty — is grounded in something nameless, without…
Stefan Lesser
Another brief look into my process — because I screwed up this week and didn’t manage to get the next post of this series ready in time. :/
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Bridges between concepts balance similarities and differences and connect abstract ideas with our intuition for embodied interaction — to help us make…
Stefan Lesser
The flow state and our ability for implicit learning are a powerful combination to enhance our cognition — and to hone in on what really matters in the…
Stefan Lesser

February 2023

Our consciousness performs incredible work to present us with what we find salient in the present moment. Can we get a grasp on what consciousness does…
Stefan Lesser
A continuous trade-off between selection for efficiency and variation for resiliency enable our capacity for growth. Processes that appear to work…
Stefan Lesser
What do evolution, design, and consciousness have in common?
Stefan Lesser
Turning our view from the structural aspects of cognition to its procedural nature, we discover surprising connections to the act of designing things.
Stefan Lesser

January 2023

Stepping back and taking a brief look at where we are in this series, and what I think about when I try to put together the next article. (Or is this…
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At the core of what makes us intelligent is our capacity to zero in on what is relevant. Can we have a scientific theory about relevance? A deep journey…
Stefan Lesser
Looking at various ways of how we interact with our environment — with objects, solving problems, or communicate with other people — a fundamental…
Stefan Lesser
Let’s start into the new year with a recollection of the story so far to refresh our memory on important concepts already covered in all 13 posts from…
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