Tag: logic

• “To take, or not to take”: Where Superstition Trumps Logic?

  

  Why would a rational being not take a stone from an island full of stones?

  valsaksornchai

  May 18, 2017

  Curiosities, Economics, Nature, Psychology, Reason, Thailand, Traveling

  3S, Andaman, argument, beautiful stones, blue, flaw, game theory, guilt, island, Koh Hin Ngam, Lipe, logic, long-tail, magic trees, opinion, proof, research, sand, Satun, Sea, snorkelling, stone, Stone God, sun, superstition, superstitution, Thailand, tourist, tower, voting, wish

• What’s Wrong with Being Selfish?

  

  I am writing this at 3pm, having slept a meagre 3 hours after a night of trying futilely to fall asleep. I am tired and my head throbs. But I want to write. This is my first post in a little over three weeks. I have been busy writing my essay (which by now is…

  valsaksornchai

  February 2, 2014

  Curiosities, Life, Mind

  brain, effort, Kahneman, logic, questions, rationality, self, selfish, selfishness, selfless, System, Thought