2019-02-11 01:23
A critical review of his book, Enlightenment Now:"[Unlike Pinker] the great writers of the Enlightenment, contrary to the way they are often caricatured, were mostly skeptics at heart. They… Read More
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Formerly Inveterate Bystander,Spirituality, Belief, Atheism, God, Hard Problem of Consciousness, Free Will, Neuroscience, Brain, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Eastern religions & no-self, Happiness Research, Philosophy of Time.
2019-02-08 05:34
Those who climb it nowadays have more luck than brains . . .In the evenings they watched films on a flat-screen TV in the cinema tent. One Russian expedition had liters of vodka on hand and… Read More
2019-02-08 01:26
What if a thief believes he won't get caught because he thinks he is invisible? This really happened.First, some insight into how we tick. The anchoring effect. Human brains have… Read More
2019-01-26 23:58
First, the anchoring effect. In 2006 at MIT Dan Ariely, Drazen Prelec, and George Loewenstein asked students to bid on a bottle of wine. As a sales pitch, they described the great quality of… Read More
2019-01-24 21:31
In an old vaudeville routine, a straight man asks his partner, "Who was the lady you were with at 7:18 pm on the night of July 23, 1903?" to which the comic, scratches his head, looks puzzl… Read More
2019-01-14 20:34
What do I know? This. Something sees a dissected brain on a laboratory table and what sees is not an object like the thing cut open on the table. Can I explain beyond that? No.Sure, I can ta… Read More
2018-12-07 22:56
“Something in my brain tells me my legs are not supposed to work. Having any sensation in them just feels wrong,” says Chloe Jennings-White. She has said she wants a surgeon to c… Read More
2018-11-23 17:36
We are a puzzle, we humans. We find ourselves in the midst of life and don't know how we got here. Our parents tell us we were born but they don't really know. Our teachers say DNA or God or… Read More
2018-11-21 04:14
Jack London had contradictory sides in that one did not "talk" to the other, but before that a brief sketch of his life is needed. He was a brilliant man, brilliant but uneducated. Forced t… Read More
2018-11-21 00:12
To explore whether you are made of matter or consciousness raise the index finger on your right hand. There, that was easy, wasn't it? You just told the finger to lift and it did. Now I have… Read More
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