Thanks, Ryan Beardsworth, ho!
A recurrent, if immediately superficial topos in the non-specialist literature regarding the content and implications of molecular biology is the following: it is estimated that the caryotype (the particular configuration of chromosomes in a specific cell of a living organism, the particular character of the “code”) of the human species […]
Articles in category 'Psychology'
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Declassified secret CIA docs tell analysts how to analyze intelligence …
Interesting.
This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. The information […]
Changizi claims the visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, allowing it to generate perceptions of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future, so that when an observer actually perceives something, it is the present rather than what happened one-tenth of a second ago. Using his hypothesis, called “perceiving-the-present,” he […]
Presentation given at “Physics of Consciousness” conference, Virginia, 2004, in which Peter Russell explores the mystery of consciousness from both scientific and mystical perspectives, showing how light is intrinsic to both, and giving a coherent argument as to why consciousness is fundamental essence of the cosmos. (Includes beautiful graphics and images.)
The person who conducted the Stanford experiment recently wrote a very interesting book called The Lucifer Effect that goes in alot of depth behind why and how these transformations happen. Here is an introduction by him:
“Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and […]
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Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Antinomies of Tolerant Reason, begins by asking, “What can philosophy do today? What can it tell the general public haunted by the problems of ecology, racism, religious conflict, and so on?” The role of philosophy, Žižek says, is not to […]
Great video here by GeraldP1983. Please click through to the vid’s page on YouTube for a number of supplemental links.
Where Science and Buddhism Meet: Emptiness, Interconnectivity and the Nature of Reality
After 4 months of writing, editing, gathering information, finding the right media and music (and getting it approved) Its finally here, Where […]
