Disbelief in free will might make a good excuse for behaving like a jerk, but would that then make
Free Will Believers nicer people?
Research by Crone & Levy suggests there is no association between free will beliefs and moral behaviour:
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Small amounts of physical activity throughout the day correlate with feeling more awake and energized, along with—especially for people who tend to experience low mood—more positive emotions and contentment, new research suggests:
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Our brain does not record—it predicts and compares.
Predictions can become rigid expectations which may distort this process. But there are ways to reclaim our predictive mind:
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Een nieuwkomer met een lagekostenstrategie kan niet in zijn eentje een race naar de bodem veroorzaken.
Daarvoor moeten zijn concurrenten die strategie—als schapen—volgen.
Mijn @apache_be stukje, Al ‘ziggend’ naar de bodem:
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Earlier research has found gratitude to be inversely correlated with materialism and greed.
New work suggests it also directly dampens the desire for money itself:
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via @psypost.bsky.social
Tex Avery was one of the top innovators of American animated cartoons—creating the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Droopy.
Here’s an early one from 1937, a bit primitive but already showing some of his trademark visual gags and absurd humour. Enjoy!
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Retail customers, unable to carry out due diligence or comb through a contract’s small print like big corporate ones, rely heavily on trust in their banking relationships.
What can upset that trust? This depends on country and financial status:
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Imagine wealth were capped at $999,999,999—everything above would be confiscated.
No billionaires.
It is tempting to believe that would make the world a better place. But, considering human nature, that is not so certain. Here’s why:
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“The chemistry of life is not exclusive to life”
A six-year experiment shows the metabolic processes we have long unequivocally associated with life can occur in the absence of living organisms:
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HT @docgrawitch
Imagining a dystopian future is dead easy; imagining utopia is harder.
We can’t already live in utopia—we’re way too miserable for that.
But that may be because there’s an abundance of the stuff we want, and not of what we need, muses Scott Young:
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