Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Seeing as a way of acting.

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I want to point out an accessible and fascinating web lecture with dynamic visual examples that outlines how we mentally construct our visua...
Friday, March 24, 2006

How to spot a baby conservative

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A friend sent me this link to an article in the Toronto Star ... KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid a...

Important models of self and sensing, and their reviewers

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You will find on the Psyche website two fascinating symposia. One deals with Thomas Metzinger's magisterial (and very long and dense) ...

How genes make up your mind

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You will find a nice introduction to this topic by Thomas Ramsoy on the Science and Consciousness Review website. He gives the necessar...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

What is happening in your brain during a sensory illusion?

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This article by Blankenburg et al , "The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Affects Human Primary Sensory Cortex Somatotopically" demonstr...

What We Know May Not Change Us

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Here are a few quotations from a very sane and brief essay by Barry Smith , a philosopher at the University of London. "Human beings, ...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

Different Brain Systems Regulating Response to Risk and Uncertainty

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How much would you pay me for a deck of 100 cards, half blue and half red, if I told you that if you drew a card from the deck without looki...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Can physics save your soul?

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Dennis Overbye writes an excellent piece in the March 14 New York Times science section. It is as clear a debunking as I have read of the fe...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

An "Apostle's Creed" for the humanistic scientific materialist?

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The classical Christian apostle's creed, over 1600 years old and formulated soon after the writing of the New Testament, is a series of ...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

Recent Evolution of Humans

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The once-prevailing orthodoxy that human brain evolution stopped well before the rise of agriculture and cities is being rapidly swept away....
Friday, March 10, 2006

Evolutionary Spirituality - Evolutionary Christianity

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These sites ( thegreatstory.org , evolutionarychristianity.org ) show efforts to blend scientific evolutionary perspectives with convention...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Visual Illusions

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My colleage Nansi Colley sent me this link to a great visual illusion involving color and motion adaptation. This motivated me to post thi...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Dangerous Ideas......

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Edge.org is a website sponsored by the "Reality Club" (i.e. John Brockman, literary agent/impressario/socialite). Brockman has a...

Pursuing Happiness

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The Feb. 27 issue of the New Yorker has a review by John Lanchester of several books on happiness. Jonathan Haidt, "The Happiness Hyp...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Our Wayward Minds

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I want to mention the excellent book by Guy Claxton - THE WAYWARD MIND, an intimate history of the unconscious (2005, Little, Brown, and Co...
Sunday, March 05, 2006

No Two Alike - Why do even identical twins have different personalities?

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No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris (Hardcover, W.W.Norton, 2006) ..... Harris argues that three brai...
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The Folk Psychology of Souls

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From the abstract of an article by J. M. Bering , currently under review and to be published in Behavioral and Brain Research (copyright C...

Altruistic and cooperative behavior not unique to humans.

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More behaviors proposed by some to be unique to humans prove not to be. Warkenin and Tomasello show altruistic cooperation in young chimpan...
Friday, March 03, 2006

More on how meditation may increase the thickness of some cortical areas

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An interview with Sandra Lazar. in Science and Consciousness Review. "The most significant ... difference was in the right anterio...
Friday, February 24, 2006

What makes young kids different from young chimps?

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They are LESS critical in imitating the actions of others. Horner and Whiten trained young chimps to remove food from a black box (open the...
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