I think the process of making such a diagram is also such a powerful way to really consolidate your knowledge. There was this guy who went through different theories of anxiety and tried to draw diagrams of them. And I thought it was so cool because in many cases, the original authors who'd come up with those theories had not drawn diagrams. So that's another big advantage of trying to draw a diagram of your understanding of something is that you could show it to another person. It makes me happy from a purely aesthetic point of view.
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What is the Great Rationality Debate? What are axiomatic rationality and ecological rationality? How irrational are people anyway? What's the connection between rationality and wisdom? What are some of the paradigms in cognitive science? Why do visual representations of information often communicate their meaning much more effectively than other kinds of representations?
Anna Riedl is a cognitive scientist with a primary research interest in judgement and decision-making under unmeasurable uncertainty, a field in the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. She loves the scientific method so much that she regularly spreads her joy about it in various formats of science communication. In the end, she cares about ideas being applied in the real world, solving problems, and benefitting humanity. This means she often plays the role of being an interface between the two worlds of ideas and their application by humans. Over the last years, she has founded and lead different organizations in the DACH region that work on improving the world. You can find more about her at riedlanna.com, follow her on Twitter at @annaleptikon, or email her at annariedl.office@gmail.com.
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