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Why do we cry?

 

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Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009


The issue:

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Pain for Pleasure

Senior Seminar in Biology and Society

Is Pain a Pleasure, and Why?

September 29, 2009

 

How many of us were glued to the television weeks after 9/11? How many of us slow down when passing a car crash? How many of us have a favorite crime show?

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Notes Towards Day 10: "Seeing Gender"

Notes Towards Day 10: "Seeing Gender"


 

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Notes Towards Day 9: Ordering the Chaos of Dreaming

Notes Towards Day 9:
Ordering the Chaos of Dreaming

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Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

I. coursekeeping

those papers due Fri? reporting in on topic-defining, progress in researching....?
3-pp. paper reporting on current studies done on your health choice:
how are most college students handling the choice you are confronting?
how best to present the information you find?
find three web sources; look @ HOW they present the info (causes? correlations?

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Notes Towards Day 9: The Paradox of Choice

Notes Towards Day 9

I. Start by taking three surveys from The Paradox of Choice:
*are you a maximizer or a satisficer? (p.80)
*the regret scale (p.87)
*the subjective happiness scale (p. 196)
can we chart the correlations?

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Kristin's Origin Stories

Kristin's Origin Stories

Origins/intersections/categories

Personal/political/intellectual


Heritage: Photo of my great-grandmother in her 90s with her skis behind her, in northern Sweden, above the Arctic Circle—you can see the tradition of physical robustness and survival that I come from.


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Observations and Interpretations 9/23/09

Observations and Interpretations

Week of September 21, 2009; Brielle Stark

Observations

Project: Bubbleology I

Bubbleology I

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Notes Towards Day 8: The Odds of That?

Notes Towards Day 8 of Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
naming
postings--what WAS the carbon footprint of our field trip??
on using the web to enlarge your paper, but...
being skeptical of what you find!

new writing
(papers due @ 5 tomorrow):
any questions? go round and describe topics?

reading for next Tuesday:
first part (75 pp.) of
The Paradox of Choice,
by Swat pysch prof Barry Schwartz;
popular version of the scientific dilemma we've been chasing this week-->

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