Thursday, May 31, 2007

Nuclear Numbing and Mindsight

I'm reading Daniel Goleman's Vital Lies, Simple Truths. He discusses nuclear numbing, how we deny the truth that we've got more nuclear weapons than we really need, and we ignore the fact that we could, by the pressing of a few buttons, end humanity on this earth rather quickly. There's a discussion on the PBS site about nuclear numbing, in an interview of Elaine Tyler May.

On Daniel Goleman's blog he talks about the term "mindsight" which means that "which captures how the social brain empathizes and understands." which was coined by Daniel Siegel.

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