Status Updates From Intuition Pumps and Other T...

Every organism [...] has an ontology. [...] One of my favorite examples of how different [ontology] can be compares an anteater to an insectivorous bird. The bird tracks individual insects and must deal with their erratic flight patterns by having a high flicker-fusion rates [...] The anteater just averages over the whole ant-infested area lets it's big tongue take up the slack.

"Thinking is hard." Hope this book helps.

Not quite the book I was expecting. It includes a lot of thought experiments rather than "techniques to improve your thinking."

I hesitated starting a new book, since I'm already switching among three. But I couldn't resist this one.