Do you agree that acquiring knowledge by reading non fiction is ten times as efficient as from reading fiction?


No. 2 reasons:

1) By eliminating non-fiction from your "learning", you are missing out on valuable social and interpersonal lessons.

2) Non-fiction is only one of two classifications ...

Two generations ago CP Snow authored the book The Two Cultures , which identified the two cultures to be "literary intellectuals" (humanities) and natural scientists. He constructed the problem in this way:

"I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional ...

The new paradigm for cognitive science that is described in the book Philosophy in the Flesh is called "conceptual metaphor." This theory stipulates that as I have an experience I create mental structures that allow me to draw inferences regarding that experience. These mental structures consist of ...

Metaphorically Thinking

We commonly think of metaphor as something like analogy. We are trying to explain something to someone and we say this something new is very much like this other something you are familiar with.

This is one form of metaphor but there is another metaphor that is automatic ...

I have a strong desire to comprehend stuff

I claim that comprehending is a hierarchy and can usefully be thought of as a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is awareness that is followed by consciousness, which is awareness plus attention. Knowing follows consciousness and understanding is at the ...

Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

Freud hypothesized that dreams were a means for establishing a universal method for studying the human psyche. He felt that dreams provided a means for studying the psyche in a manner similar to that used to study the physiological ...

The following is an OP I posted recently on another forum after studying Ernest Becker. What would Julian Jaynes think about this idea?

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) won the Pulitzer Prize foe General Nonfiction for the “Denial of Death”. A distinguished social theorist and a popular teacher of ...