No good has ever come from feeling guilty. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

- Paul Goodman

Just to be clear, sometimes you have to pay attention to your anxieties, granted they were justified anxieties.

Guilt usually indicates that our actions have deviated from our principles and moralities. It is an alarm light.

Guilt is a noble emotion; the person without it is a monster.

- Willard Gaylin

The most casual reading of biographies indicates that many admirable people, like Abraham Lincoln, often suffered from “deep insecurities and self-doubts,” and that many less-than-admirable people suffered from no self-doubts whatsoever, at least until they were caught or disgraced.

- House of cards: psychology and psychotherapy built on myth

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people are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

- Gordon Allport

The true genius of George R. R. Martin & ASOIAF is that he presents his story in the format of true history. There's a realistic amount of uncertainty in the work, unlike, say, in LOTR.

If a foreign power had attempted to give America the bad education it has today, we would have viewed it as an act of war.

- National Commission on Excellence in Education, in a 1983 report.

لو حاولت قوةٌ أجنبية إعطاءنا هذا النظام التعليمي السيء الذي نمتلكه اليوم في الولايات المتحدة، لاعتبرناه إعلانَ حرب.

Business and military leaders complain that they are required to spend millions of dollars on costly remedial education and training programs in such basic skills as reading, writing, spelling, and computation. The Department of the Navy, for example, reported to the Commission that one-quarter of its recent recruits cannot read at the ninth grade level, the minimum needed simply to understand written safety instructions. Without remedial work they cannot even begin, much less complete, the sophisticated training essential in much of the modern military.

- National Commission on Excellence in Education, in a 1983 report (A nation at risk).

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Why humans don't make sense?
(And why being human is being paradoxical)

The brain is made up of different circuits that are laid on top of one another, and were "designed" to serve different (and sometimes conflicting) purposes through different times of our evolutionary history. If we were to explain this notion in more imaginative words, then we could say that:
The human brain is a Frankenstein of the brains of our ancestors, each one of them contributed with small, but considerable, parts. Some fish-like ancestor might've contributed with a primordial form of a hippocampus. Another mammal ancestor would've probably given us the cingulate gyrus as an inheritance. And an ancestral human might've gifted us with her ability to make and understand "jokes."

In light of this idea, it is reasonable to think of the human mind as being made up of sub-personalities (in a somewhat psychoanalytic sense) that can contradict one another. This would explain why we, humans, can hold on to beliefs and ideas that contradict one another: we might sincerely believe that ghosts don't exist, yet still be afraid of haunted old houses.

This is why contradiction and discrepancy are basic human traits. We can't help but to be contradictory.

الفكرة هي أنّ التناقض جزء أساسي من طبيعة الإنسان. هذا التناقض سببه هو الهندسة الفوضوية—إلى حد ما—للدماغ البشري.

+ this could explain why we're having a hard time with designing human-like AI.
Bcuz we're thinking like engineers: ever so efficient and logical, when we should think like evolutionary biologists.

The brain is a chaotic structure, to design a human-like AI, we should design a deliberately chaotic AI.

هالشي ذكرني بمحاولات بيرتراند راسل وألفريد نورث وايتهيد لإيجاد كل الأُسس المنطقية لعلم الرياضيات وإزالة كل التناقضات اللي بيه.
بوقتها حاولوا يختصرون كل الرياضيات (الحساب والجبر والتكامل وغيرها) إلى مجموعة قوانين منطقية بسيطة نكدر من خلالها نستنتج كلشي بعلم الرياضيات. ميحتاج أكول أنّ محاولاتهم باءت بالفشل. يمكن لأن الرياضيات ببساطة هي علم بشري، والبشر بطبيعتهم متناقضين، لهذا ما تكدر تتوقع من علم بشري أنْ يكون خالي من التناقضات.

Ebstein's anomaly

An echo of mitral valve regurgitation (due to infective endocarditis)

You can see mobile or (oscillating) vegetations of IE on the valve leaflets