Unmaking Sense

Episode 1.10: Reading and unconscious cognition.

We no more understand how we process information than how we digest food, but our diet still matters if we are to live healthy lives. Not all learning is conscious, and we need to learn how to learn unconsciously if we are to thrive.

Episode 1.09: Asking the wrong questions

We allow language to persuade us that the questions we ask are worth asking and the answers we give the right answers, but maybe that’s just not so.

Episode 1.08: False choices between wrong either/or pairs.

Is the alternative posed by the freedom and determinism debate usefully framed? Why we can’t predict our future decisions even for a nanosecond.

Episode 1.05: Gardeners as educators; architects as trainers.

Prejudging needs as training; preparing for new needs as education. The architect and the gardener.

Episode 1.04: The story so far plus the inevitability of conflict.

Because our rationality is built on our choices of goods and values, we will almost inevitably come into conflict with those who choose differently.

Episode 1.03: Freedom and Determinism

Why determinism is a figment of our imagination.

Episode 1.02: Choices. How choices arise that force us to make decisions.

The things we can say are limitless, so over time we contradict ourselves both as individuals and as cultures. Somehow we have to manage these conflicts.

Episode 1.01: Two Kinds of Writing

The differences between spontaneity and planning using the examples of writing and speaking.

Introduction

An overview of where we are going and why we are going there. Why living the present matters more than planning the future.

Unmaking Sense: Living the Present without Mortgaging the Future. (Trailer)