Understanding Agency – Lesson Collection
A lesson collection for learning about the origins, diversity, and flexibility of goal-directed behaviors.
A lesson collection for learning about the origins, diversity, and flexibility of goal-directed behaviors.
The human brain is the seat of human agency, and yet this agency is caused by cellular agents unaware of our larger human goals.
An introductory h5p interactive sorting task for starting a conversation on the diversity and complexity of understanding agency.
What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and beliefs helps us to engage them more flexibly, change perspective, and learn from each other to achieve shared goals.
Exploring various “behaviors of our mind” from an evolutionary perspective, including “Fast and Slow Thinking”, “Moral Taste Buds”, “Mental Time Travel”,
the “Noticer”, the “Discoverer”, and the “Advisor”
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