“Consciousness is a precondition of being.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Is happiness a choice?
• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
• In-group bias: why do we automatically see people in our own group as better and more in the right? How arbitrary can the foundations of 'us' and 'them' really be?
• The affect heuristic: when we like something, why do we judge its risks as low and its harms as small? Can our feelings quietly make decisions in place of our reasoning?
• The need for competence: feeling yourself getting better at something is motivating all by itself. Are video game leveling systems tapping exactly this need?