had to Google the book. Kahneman describes the two different ways the brain forms thoughts:
- *System 1:* Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious - *System 2:* Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious On 7 August 2012 19:14, Ron Skelley <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > If you haven 't yet worked through 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel > Kahneman, this is as good a trigger as any. > Ron > > ------------------------------ > *From:* A11OGE 4/4 4 seater [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 07 August 2012 12:43 > *To:* mogtalk2 > *Subject:* [mogtalk2] non-Mog exabytes of digital information > > It has been estimated that from the beginning of civilization around 5,000 > years ago to the year 2003, all of humanity created a grand total of five > exabytes of digital information. From 2003 through 2010 we created five > exabytes of digital information every two days. By 2013 we will be > producing five exabytes every ten minutes. The 2010 total of 912 exabytes > is the equivalent of 18 times the amount of information contained in all > the books ever written. It isn’t knowledge that we need more of; it is how > to think about what we know and what we don’t know that is becoming ever > more critical. > > FYI - An Exabte is 10 to the 18th power, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 > bytes <http://www.techterms.com/definition/byte>. An exabyte is 1,024 > petabytes <http://www.techterms.com/definition/petabyte>, and so > on................. > > -- > Steve A11OGE Red 4/4 4 seater > > View posts on The Mail Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > > View posts on The Mail Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Steve A11OGE Red 4/4 4 seater ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
