One nostril knows what the other learns

"What the shadow knows".

How George Soros Knows What He Knows

In its traditional formulation as an explanatory principle, reflexivity means that any object of thought contains in itself the thinking activity that generates it. Applying the concept of reflexivity to the question of financial markets valuation, Soros concludes that economic reality is actively shaped by the perceptions of market participants. This leads him to a theory of investment radical...

How George Soros Knows What He Knows

In its traditional formulation as an explanatory principle, reflexivity means that any object of thought contains in itself the thinking activity that generates it. Applying the concept of reflexivity to the question of financial markets valuation, Soros concludes that economic reality is actively shaped by the perceptions of market participants. This leads him to a theory of investment radical...

What One Feels and What One Knows: the Influence of Emotions on Attitudes and Intentions towards Knowledge Sharing

This paper provides theoretical and empirical insight in the relationship between emotions and knowledge sharing. Pride (an ego-focused emotion) and empathy (an other-focused emotion) are related to eagerness and willingness to share knowledge. Our hypotheses were tested by means of a survey in which respondents were asked to evaluate one of four different scenarios. Pride and empathy were foun...

To Know, What Life Knows

The field of semiotics is described as a general study of knowing. Knowing in a broad sense as a process that assumes (and includes) at least memory (together with heredity), anticipation, communication, meaningful information, and needs, is a distinctive feature of living systems. Sciences are distinguished accordingly into phi-sciences (that use physicalist methodology) and sigma-sciences (th...