Watch whether the size of the feeling matches the size of the event. When it does not, the surplus came from somewhere, and it did not come from the person across the table.
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Stanisław Lem, Solaris (1961), and Kelvin's closing hypothesis of a defective god
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Carl Jung on the Shadow, on projection, and on active imagination
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Carl Jung, The Red Book, sixteen years of dialogue with inner figures
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, the debts of Book One and the fighter who stays in the ring
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Epictetus, on what is up to us and on testing your impressions
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Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, on choosing yourself a Cato and reading rivals like a spy in the enemy's camp
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Carl Rogers on the self-concept and on congruence: acceptance of the person, never of the account
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Richard Nisbett, The Geography of Thought, and the fish tank experiment
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Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru and colleagues, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots (2021)
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Dario Amodei, The Urgency of Interpretability (2025)
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Heinz, Jacobson et al., Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment, NEJM AI (2025)
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