Top products from r/LessWrong
We found 4 product mentions on r/LessWrong. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
Show Reddit reviews2. Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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It might have been the good and the real by Gary Drescher.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Real-Demystifying-Paradoxes-Bradford/dp/0262042339
Completely randomly, I was reading up some book descriptions on Amazon, and stumbled upon something that fits my OP text:
> In 1921, Alfred Korzybski, a mathematician and scientist, classified Life with precise and accurate operational definitions of plants, animals, and humans. He defined the plants as energy-binders, the animals as space-binders, and we humans as time-binders. Korzybski explained that: The plants adapt to their environment through their awareness and control of energy. The animals adapt to their environment through their awareness and control of space. And we humans adapt to our environment through our awareness and control of time.
> http://www.amazon.com/Manhood-Humanity-Alfred-Korzybski/dp/B003YMMCNO
This is all true and might put a new perspective on things, but the categorization itself doesn't really explain anything. He simply took the major life groups and sorted them into named categories. And people can read the book (I probably will to, at one time, to see what it's all about), and believe they have gained lots of insight. But the categorization I see in the description doesn't really tell us anything about the phenomena described, it just gives them more names. Something Richard Feynman famously complained about.
I'm in the middle of reading Metzinger's Being No One; one of the things he's big on is identifying which constructs within a transparent self model survive being popped out and consciously examined, and which elements are inextricable (hence transparent) building blocks of the model itself. I suppose any functional theory of mind includes the limitations of what is not mind, or what can be removed and keep the mind intact? It's a great book so far, but very difficult going. It's amazing how much of symbolic/epistemic language is dependent upon an unreconstructed dualistic view of mind. Makes talking about it/thinking about it very, very difficult.
To add to the booklist from /u/fubo -
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0156033909
- This may be exactly what you're looking for.
Review (Part 1) - http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/01/mistakes-were-1.html
Review (Part 2) - http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/01/defensiveness-r.html
Interview with co-author Carol Tavris - http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/02/thank-you-so-mu.html