Creating Significant Learning Environments
Just a couple of gems from this encouraging talk:
Positive Psychology posits: If we study what is merely average we will remain merely average.
Its not necessarily the reality that shape us but the lens that your brain views the world shapes your reality; and if we can change the lens not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
The mark of a good teacher is the number of question they elicit from the children that they themselves cannot answer… A teacher says I don’t know lets find out is a complete hero… (7:18 min)
If we start from a position of curiosity or inquiry then anything is possible. What a refreshing perspective on life and learning.
Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil’s Singularity | MIT Technology Review via kwout
Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says:
computers will never replicate the human brain and that the technological Singularity is “a bunch of hot air….
The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it.
Nicholelis suggests that our soul or our consciousness cannot be replicated in silicon because it is the result of unpredictable, non-linear interactions amongst billions of cells. No computer system is capable of replicating this type of unpredictability. At best humans will be able to control machines through implants which will become an extension of the brain.
Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.
Amy Cuddy, 19:27
