Jiddu Krishnamurti: Fear Destroys Love. Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman (2009) [Full Documentary] Terence McKenna-Reclaim your Mind. Terence Mckenna: The enemies of imagination. Psychedelia: Raw Archives of Terence McKenna Talks : Bruce Damer. Andrew Cohen & Ken Wilber: What Is Love? Memes. Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes. Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren. Recovered Mind and Brain. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog.
Joe Rogan Podcast #274 - Alex Grey. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain. 10 TED Talks That Will Change the Way You Communicate. August 1st, 2012 By: Alvina Lopez Even the most eloquent of public and private speakers could always stand to tweak their communication skills just a little bit. After all, the ability to convey feelings and facts stands as essential to keeping the human species rolling along. Both the Internet and bookshelves sport advice a-go-go on how to get points across as clearly as possible, and the venerable open source lecture series TED does not disappoint in this regard.
Its best offerings regarding human connectivity encourage essentials not always discussed in manuals and textbooks, so give them some consideration and use them to launch more exploration into how to grow into an effective, evocative communicator. Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch: If communications with people on opposite sides of political, cultural, religious and other common divides so often proves extremely problematic, try Elizabeth Lesser’s simple-but-effective approach. TEDxFiDiWomen - Regena Thomashauer - The Pleasure Revolution. Philosophy. Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing.
We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that are not serving our kids as well as we think they should. It is true of doctors who seem too busy to give us the attention and unhurried care we crave. It's true of banks that mismanage our assets, and of bond-rating agencies that fail to provide an accurate assessment of the risk of possible investments. It's true of a legal system that seems more interested in expedience than in justice. And the disenchantment we experience as recipients of services is often matched by the dissatisfaction of those who provide them. When we try to make things better, we generally reach for one of two tools. This blog is an attempt to answer this question. The term practical wisdom sounds like an oxymoron to modern ears.
This is what took practical wisdom. Why "wisdom"? Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears.
Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. The structure of the paper is as follows. Memory seems to be a no more stringent constraint than processing power. The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov. By Isaac Asimov I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, he told me he was majoring in English Literature, but felt he needed to teach me science.
(I sighed a bit, for I knew very few English Lit majors who are equipped to teach me science, but I am very aware of the vast state of my ignorance and I am prepared to learn as much as I can from anyone, however low on the social scale, so I read on.) It seemed that in one of my innumerable essays, here and elsewhere, I had expressed a certain gladness at living in a century in which we finally got the basis of the Universe straight. These are all twentieth-century discoveries, you see. The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece.
No one knows nothing. Philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/smarttheory2.pdf. Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent 1 of 9. Western Philosophy. Nick Bostrom's Home Page. Greatest Philosophers Summary. Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher. Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Logic Fallacies List. Jacques Lacan. Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (French: [ʒak lakɑ̃]; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud".[1] Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with poststructuralism.
His ideas had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, 20th-century French philosophy, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis.[2] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Lacan was born in Paris, the eldest of Emilie and Alfred Lacan's three children. His father was a successful soap and oils salesman. His mother was ardently Catholic—his younger brother went to a monastery in 1929 and Lacan attended the Jesuit Collège Stanislas. 1930s[edit] In 1931 Lacan became a licensed forensic psychiatrist. Two years later, Lacan was elected to the Société psychanalytique de Paris. Acculturation. Portrait of Native Americans from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Comanche, Iroquois, and Muscogee tribes in European attire. Photos dates from 1868 to 1924. Acculturation explains the process of cultural change and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures.[1] The effects of acculturation can be seen at multiple levels in both interacting cultures.
At the group level, acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs, and social institutions. Noticeable group level effects of acculturation often include changes in food, clothing, and language. At the individual level, differences in the way individuals acculturate have been shown to be associated not just with changes in daily behavior, but with numerous measures of psychological and physical well-being.
As enculturation is used to describe the process of first-culture learning, acculturation can be thought of as second-culture learning. Historical approaches[edit] J.W. Conceptual models[edit] Hacktivism. Overview[edit] Hacktivist activities span many political ideals and issues. Freenet is a prime example of translating political thought (anyone should be able to speak) into code. Hacktivism is a controversial term with several meanings. The sense discussed in this article is closest to cyberterrorism. The word was coined to characterize electronic direct action as working toward social change by combining programming skills with critical thinking.
But just as hack can sometimes mean cyber crime, hacktivism can be used to mean activism that is malicious, destructive, and undermining the security of the Internet as a technical, economic, and political platform.[4] Controversy[edit] While some self-described hacktivists have engaged in DoS attacks, critics suggest that DoS attacks are an attack on free speech that they have unintended consequences.
Forms of hacktivism[edit] Notable hacktivist events[edit] Related notions[edit] Civic hacking Media hacking[edit] Reality hacking[edit] See also[edit] Simulation Hypothesis: Hacking The Universe » TransAlchemy. Alan Watts - Life is a Hoax (or 'Man is a Hoax' if you will) - Big Bang = You. INFOGRAPHIC: Find Balance and Know Your Brain Chemistry - Causes. The Illusion of Knowledge. Isn't it funny how one sometimes uses words with the honest believe it's a well known term, but then comes to realize nobody understands it?
Like, when I was a kid, the 'grandma-button' was a very well known concept to me. My grandma, being farsighted, used to accidentally tune the TV's brightness and color instead of the volume. Luckily, the remote control had a 'grandma-button' to reset the now very odd looking appearance on the screen. Since 'reset' didn't mean anything to me, the corresponding feature on various technical devices became grandma-buttons. Needless to say, except for my younger brother nobody knew what I was referring to. I was thinking about this recently when Michael mentioned that the 'Illusion of Knowledge' I kept talking about and that even made it on our conference poster (it's no longer there), isn't anything he'd ever heard of. Thus, I guess I made that up and came to believe I heard it elsewhere.
. ~ Daniel J. Illusion in the 21st Century Consequences Bottomline. 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. Information Philosopher - Freedom. Freedom Freedom is the property of being free from constraints, especially from external constraints on our actions, but also from internal constraints such as physical disabilities or addictions. Political freedoms, such as the right to speak, to assemble, and the limits to government constraints on associations and organizations such as media and religions, are examples of external freedom.
Isaiah Berlin called this kind of freedom "negative" in his essay Two Concepts of Liberty. Lack of external and internal constraints - Berlin's "negative freedom," is usually called "freedom of action. " But there is another, more philosophical form of liberty that Berlin called "positive freedom. " Quite apart from whether we are free to act, are we free to will our actions? This Freedom section of Information Philosopher is a critical study of the "problem of free will.
" Underlined blue hyperlinked words on every page let you jump to detailed explanations. A Taxonomy of Views on Free Will For Teachers. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951) The Limits of Language. Catastrophic dehumanization: the psychological dynamics of severe conflict. David Icke's 'ad lib' documentary at Occupy Wall Street. The Psychology of Religion - Steven Pinker (II) Jordan Maxwell-The Human Alien Agenda3/6. Rense & Jordan Maxwell - Today's Corruption is the Old Perfected. The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World. Stanislav Grof - Psychology of the Future. The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell - Full Version. Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness? Perceptome, How perceptions create reality: Luis M. Martínez at TEDxBarcelona.
Jung_himself-on-TRANSFERENCE & Archtypes. The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung's Catalog of the Unconscious. By Kirstin Butler Why Sarah Palin identifies with the grizzly bear, or what the unconscious knows but doesn’t reveal. A primary method for making sense of the world is by interpreting its symbols. We decode meaning through images and, often without realizing, are swayed by the power of their attendant associations. A central proponent of this theory, iconic Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustaf Jung, made an academic case for it in the now-classic Man and His Symbols, and a much more personal case in The Red Book. Beginning in the 1930s, Jung’s devotees started collecting mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic imagery under the auspices of The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS), an organization with institutes throughout the U.S.
You can browse through ARAS via a list of common archetypes, or search by word, producing a cross-indexed result with thumbnail images and a timeline of where and when that idea appeared throughout history. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr.