A new-born turtle in Fair-minded Critical Thinking, interested in cultivating my mind for higher levels of reasoning and understanding the fabrics of the reality we are living in. Classics are what make my life exciting. Math, Physics, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Music, Finance are my favorite topics. I am very THANKFUL that Writing and Violin are in my life. I love Traveling. I love ITALIAN FASHION and FOOD. I love Animals. Procrastination, Indecisiveness, Egocentricity and Sociocentrism, Laziness are my main weaknesses which I need to work on. I BELIEVE IN the WOLRD is BEAUTIFUL; Let's sit and watch its Beauty...
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Posted July 15, 2023
My Comments on Video of Intellectual Standards
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"Podcast: "},{"attributes":{"background":"#ffffff","color":"#1155cc","link":"https://community.criticalthinking.org/watchEmbeddedVideo.php?id=311"},"insert":"(Ep. 16) Intellectual Standards: Going Deeper - How Egocentric and Sociocentric Thinking Divert Us from Using Intellectual Standards"},{"insert":"\n\nSome of organizing ideas covered in this podcast:\n\nEgo-centricity and two categories of its drivers as Selfishness and narrow-mindedness. One subtle point is that egocentricity does not always mean as selfishness to the extent that protects us. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Applying such standards as accuracy, precision, relevance, logic and fairness especially in assumptions behind our egocentric and socio-centric views. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Distinction between two views of \"It's true because I/We WANT to believe\" vs. \"It's true because I/We BELIEVE\" in the contexts of egocentricity and socio-centricity. In case of the former, our views are impaired due to lack of accuracy and relevance standards. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"One interesting way of asking questions from ourselves can be asking: What part of our views is most likely to be inaccurate instead of asking what part of our views is accurate?(Thanks to Dr. Nosich)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"One approach of dealing with Socio-centricity is to analyze its cluster of ideas individually focusing on the concepts of ideas."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Question 1: t Which of two views are more difficult to analyze? It's true because either I WANT to believe or I BLIEVE?"},{"insert":" To me it seems that WANTING can be part of TO BELIVE. It is all about HOW and WHY we believe? We might be taught or want to believe an idea. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Question 2: When we do analyze our egocentricity and socio-centricity ideas, to what extent we can apply intellectual standards in an objective manner?"},{"insert":" I mean, when we try to understand the drivers behind our egocentricity we approach through our own lenses and in this way we might even distort our ideas and the way we apply standards. we can imagine ourselves as an ego built from fibers of egocentric ideas. When we say we analyze our egocentricity it implies an assumption of having an hidden objective entity which can dissect egocentric ideas into elements of thought and applying intellectual standards while the our inner analyst's identity is inextricably tied with those egocentric ideas. \nI think in some physical topics as far as we do apply standards as universally-agreed standards like a ruler for measurement it doesn't matter whether we are inside the water or outside of it although we experience two totally different sense of measurement in such two environments. One answer to my question might be as far as we apply universally-agreed intellectual standards(based on feedbacks on objectivity) like a ruler, we can analyze our egocentric ideas while being aware of our limitations in our ego-built identity. (Like an observer who is watching the cases of interest through water in a glass container while being aware of the impact of light refraction as a distorting factor in his measurement)\n\n\n"}]}
Posted June 4, 2023
Inferences Podcast
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"Thanks to Dr. Elder and Dr. Nosich deeper discussion on Inferences I am now able to review my own understanding of this element. During their explanations, I found the following helpful ideas which I already did not notice although I had heard and read a lot. \nIt was great that I could internalize a critical adverb which I already missed about Inferences definition. That is \"Continuously\". We define Inferences as to make sense of the world CONTINUOUSLY. This sands out to me because I thought Inferences as once-time act instead of a continuously one. Therefore, I should be aware of my inferences anytime. As Dr. Elder explained by analogy of breathing the air."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I found Significance, Clarity and Accuracy as major standards to apply to Inferences. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I should be aware of also what I am not inferring when I am inferring of something? And also that thing itself?"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The role of Inferences in our mental health and our relationships also was very insightful to me."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"}]}
Posted March 25, 2023
Primary ideas from the Concept Podcast
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"In this video, we are encouraged to emphasize more on the concept of concepts and the reasonable way we delve into them. \nDr. Elder emphasized on the using of the concepts rather than just their meaning. She further suggests that a dictionary can be as a prelude to understanding any concepts. The role of linguistic in developing concepts are discussed. Moreover, thanks to several examples, the role of concepts as drivers in our conscious and unconscious lives becomes more explicit. For instance, having egocentric concept leads us to develop further egocentric concepts, points of view, and assumptions. Also, we apply concepts to interpret information. \nDr. Nosich emphasized on the clarity of the concepts in the contexts by asking a very helpful question” What do you mean of that?”. The question of , how do we use concepts reasonably, was another primary topic were discussed in this video.\n\nQuestion: How can we analyze a concept which has been formed emotionally rather than logically and linguistically?\n\n\n\n"}]}
Posted October 3, 2022
"Laughter" a book by Bergson
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
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Everyone\nI hope you all are fine and keep going through our critical thinking journey. I recently found a remarkable book by a French philosopher \" Henri Bergson\" . The book is \" Laughter\" and it goes deeper in the concept and logic of comic. It seems very interesting since it presents the functions of comic in the social and individual contexts. I am sharing some quotes from that book. \nIf anyone was interested to have access to its online version please let me know. \n\nThank you and please share with me if you have also similar interesting books in this topic. \n\nRegards,\nBehnam\n--------------------------------------\n“It is no easy matter to define the point at which the anxiety to become modest may be distinguished from the dread of becoming ridiculous. But surely, at the outset, this dread and this anxiety are one and the same thing. A complete investigation into the illusions of vanity, and into the ridicule that clings to them, would cast a strange light upon the whole theory of laughter. We should find laughter performing, with mathematical regularity, one of its main functions—that of bringing back to complete self-consciousness a certain self-admiration which is almost automatic, and thus obtaining the greatest possible sociability of characters. We should see that vanity, though it is a natural product of social life, is an inconvenience to society, just as certain slight poisons, continually secreted by the human organism, would destroy it in the long run, if they were not neutralized by other secretions. Laughter is unceasingly doing work of this kind. In this respect, it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughable is vanity.”\n\n“Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.”\n\n\nExcerpt From\nLaughter\nBy: Henri Bergson\n\n"}]}
Posted August 28, 2022
Digging into Tennyson's poem
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"Thanks to Kathy and her comment on Tennyson's poem which I shared before, I thought it can be an interesting topic if we could share our thoughts on this poem and how we perceive it based on our Critical Thinking concepts. I\nThe poem by Alfred Tennyson is:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"\"Flower in the crannied wall,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I pluck you out of the crannies,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"Little flower—but if I could understand"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"What you are, root and all, all in all,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I should know what God and man is.\""},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"My thoughts:"},{"insert":"\n\nWhat is bold to me here is that Tennyson is trying to relate the system of interrelated concepts. In other words, he tries to tell us that we can reach to a huge macro concept of God from a micro concept of a root of flower. For instance, a flower consists of a root, a stem and leaves. Then, a root needs soil and water. Soil and water, next, are elements of Earth. Now, we explore more in Earth to know what it is. Then, we learn that Earth is just a tiny particle of our MilkyWay galaxy. Then, again we notice that MilkyWay galaxy itself is one of numerous galaxies in the universe. Now, if we learn what is the universe, then we are ready to answer the question that: is universe created by a supernatural power which is so-called a God. Therefore, I see this line of reasoning in Tennyson's poem.\n\nWhat I learned from Richard Paul in his lecture is that we need to apply this system of interrelated concepts in our teaching and learning. \n\nThank you for reading my thoughts.\nBehnam\n"}]}
Posted July 9, 2022
Flower in the crannied wall
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"\n\nA poem by Alfred Tennyson:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"\"Flower in the crannied wall,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I pluck you out of the crannies,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"Little flower—but if I could understand"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"What you are, root and all, all in all,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I should know what God and man is.\""},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"In one of Richard Paul's videos on Critical Thinking and interrelated systems of concepts, I learned about this powerful poem and I wanted to share with you. What questions should we ask to know more about the flower? "},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}
Posted July 3, 2022
Critical Thinking in Shaping Franklin's Life Principles
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
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provided here an excerpt from the book of Benjamin Franklin Autobiography. This book is one of the books we have read in our Weekend Study Group. One interesting part of this book is where Franklin articulates his ideas as 13 principles emphasizing on intellectual standards such as CLARITY, PRECISION, RELEVANCE. There are some roots of intellectual virtues in his principles as well. Can you enumerate some of them?\nI hope you enjoy this excerpt.\nBehnam\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\n“ I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd the extent I gave to its meaning.”\n\n“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.\n\n2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.\n\n3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.\n\n4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.\n\n5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.\n\n6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.\n\n7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.\n\n8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.\n\n9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.\n\n10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.\n\n11. TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.\n\n12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.\n\n13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”\n\nBenjamin Franklin\n\n\n\n"}]}
Posted August 26, 2019
How do we feed our brain?
Posted by: Behnam Jafari | Posted for: the Community
{"ops":[{"insert":"This week, in our study group we talk a little of our health. It struck me to introduce a book which I have read and applied to my life and of course I experience a change. The book \" EAT COMPLETE\" is written by Dr. Drew Ramsey, psychiatrist and the professor of Columbia University. \n\nHere is an excerpt from Dr. Ramsey's book:\n\"Not only were the medications I was prescribing adding to my patients’ health problems, but I realized I was totally untrained to counsel them about nutrition. Doctors don’t learn about nutrition in medical school, even though poor food choices are at the root of the majority of health concerns in our country.\nI learned that my patients were just as confused as I was. I felt foolish as I realized that the standard advice I was offering—“Don’t eat cholesterol or fat”—was both scientifically wrong and woefully inadequate. \"\n\nIn this book, he first provides the knowledge of 21 nutrients(what are they? what are their functions? how much and where you can find them?) , then gives the required kitchen tools and in the end 100 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and small plates, salads and so on. By eating these recipes you will get the most nutritions you should feed your brain. I personally applied these recipes and I see a favorable change in my mood, my mind and the level of my energy. I hope if you get interested in that book, it will be helpful for you.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/well/eat/food-mood-depression-anxiety-nutrition-psychiatry.html"},"insert":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/well/eat/food-mood-depression-anxiety-nutrition-psychiatry.html"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_EyHW1F_Bk"},"insert":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_EyHW1F_Bk"},{"insert":"\n\nBehnam\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"}]}
