Sentences with phrase «rational systems of thought»

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Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.

Ultimately, myth prevailed in his system, and his thought lost all semblance of rational meaning.

He goes on to note the post-Enlightenment fragmentation of the Catholic synthesis: «what for Patristic and Medieval thought was in both theory and practice a profound unity -LSB-...] was destroyed by systems which espoused the cause of rational knowledge sundered from faith.»

The limbic system — the emotion centre of the brain — gets flooded with emotion, while the prefrontal cortex — the rational, thinking part of the brain that governs impulse control — becomes deactivated.

Whether you're sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain's primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration.

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Kurt presents the «seven psychological death sins» you should be aware of in an attempt to downtone System 1 and advance System 2: 1) excessive self - confidence, 2) herd mentality, 3) blind orthodoxy, 4) denial, 5) confirmation bias, 6) deadlocked ideas and attitudes, 7) cognitive dissonance (the tendency to go with the thought that «feels best» when stuck with the choice between two contradicting ideas rather than investigating which is more rational).

I'd have thought a probability distribution of the system's future possible states would be enough to inform rational decision - making, though of course some people will never be satisfied.

I am apparently not alone in thinking that this study is more about justifying the use of drones than it is for really developing a rational, carbon efficient transport and delivery system.

Julie: A lot of folks still rely on the thoughts of Murry Bowen and people who have a more general systems theory about families, where the emotions are pitted against rational thinking and one interferes with the other.