tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119816335163312523.post1036219017393853683..comments2023-04-27T04:39:45.647-04:00Comments on JT Thinks About Stuff: Book Review: The Signal and the NoiseJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170062950345779215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119816335163312523.post-21194570281657263222015-03-31T20:49:17.818-04:002015-03-31T20:49:17.818-04:00I'm not generally podcast-oriented. Unless I&#...I'm not generally podcast-oriented. Unless I'm driving, the audio-verbal channel is <b>too damn slow</b>. That's one reason I skipped so many lectures in college (though not the only one, as you may well suspect).<br /><br />I'm glad you liked <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i>. It seems to me that one of the best things anyone could do, cognitively, is to develop a good "system 1" (fast) sense for when it's a good idea to invoke "system 2" (slow). I work consciously at this.<br /><br />What you say about jazz musicians doesn't surprise me at all. The "system 1" brain, it seems to me, is very heavily about patterns. (We're so good at recognizing patterns that we see them even when they're not there.) And I can think of nothing that would engage the pattern-matching brain more than jazz improv.JThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170062950345779215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119816335163312523.post-18853248551804204792015-03-31T19:14:25.687-04:002015-03-31T19:14:25.687-04:00This is in my list to read, as is Freakonomics. I ...This is in my list to read, as is Freakonomics. I assume you listen to the podcast?<br /><br />Thinking Fast and Slow was great. I really enjoyed it. Makes you wonder how the human mind works. When should you use the frontal lobes, and when should you let your mind get out of the way. I forget where I heard it, but I did hear that jazz musicians have almost no frontal lobe activity when improvising. They bypass the rational thought part of the brain altogether. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com