Intellectual, emotional beliefs, attitudes and habits for productive outcomes.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Mon, 01/08/2011 - 12:43pm
An interesting article by a doctor who doesn't believe the brain is the seat of consciousness (which is correct).
There is no conceivable neural account of many aspects of human consciousness. A record of neural impulses cannot explain the simultaneous unity and multiplicity of the moment.
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Nor can neural activity explain memory, as the material of the brain has no way of representing the tenses of time; indeed as Einstein emphasised, for physicists, the past, present and future are stubborn illusions.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 08/06/2011 - 3:37pm
Science has finally confirmed what anyone who's ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.
In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.
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"What's exciting about these findings," he says, "is that they outline the direct way in which emotional experiences can be linked to the body."
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 23/04/2011 - 7:37pm
An excellent article by Ross Gittins, commenting on a new book by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe "Practical Wisdom."
Everything we know and decide is based on comparison (context).
And that we can't live without it TINA - there is no alternative.
From Ross's column
The term ''frame'' is itself a metaphor. Schwartz and Sharpe say it's a wonderful metaphor because it emphasises our capacity to take the chaos of the social world around us and organise it in an understandable way.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 15/10/2010 - 8:33am
People's brains are more responsive to friends than to strangers, even if the stranger has more in common, according to a study in the Oct. 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
"In all experiments, closeness but not similarity appeared to drive responses in medial prefrontal regions and associated regions throughout the brain," Krienen said. "The results suggest social closeness is more important than shared beliefs when evaluating others."
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 02/10/2010 - 5:27am
Another article citing research about the different ways we think: basically, we direct our awareness towards 'context' or 'detail' or in a deeper sense, towards the feminine-wave (collective-possibilities, at-once, connections), and masculine-particle (detail, actuality, logic, serial analysis) dimensions to life.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Tue, 14/09/2010 - 12:34am
Yet another study confirming the power of belief.
... an expert from Coventry University has shown the powerful ways the mind can force the body to work harder.
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Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 02/07/2010 - 4:26pm
An interesting article on how our relationships help us feel physically warm, or cold.
From John Davidson's article in the Financial Review "Some hard thoughts on weighty matters" ...
Could it be that figurative coldness and actual coldness are somehow intertwined? Do "the cold shoulder", the "cold heart", the "frosty stare" ...actually make us feel physically cold? ... It turns out that the answer to all those questions might be yes"
