Psychology
“I Am my Connectome” – Sebastian Seung [TED Talk]
Cutting edge research on neural networks & cognitive neuroscience. I’ll try to revisit this at another time in more detail, but for now just wanted to share the video. I find it amazing how few people take an interest in how their brains work. We all have one. Not to mention that never before in history have we had so much knowledge and technology for gaining knowledge about the brain. The findings & implications of modern cognitive research are enormously broad and, in my opinion, prudent to be aware of.
47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS COMMONLY BELIEVED, BUT NOT TRUE – You read by recognizing the shapes of words and groups of words. Words that are in all capital letters all have the same shape: a rectangle of a certain size. This makes words displayed in all uppercase harder to read than upper and lower case (known as “mixed case”). Mixed case words are easier to read because they make unique shapes, as demonstrated by the picture below.
What If “It” Doesn’t End With a Bang But With a Whimper? Mind Games - Chapter Two of Two “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain May I suggest the reader begin with Chapter One (link below) before progressing further in order to fully understand my meaning when I use various terms or phrases in this essay. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-if-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%9D-doesn%E2%80%99t-end-bang-whimper-mind-games-chapter-one-two
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What If “It” Doesn’t End With a Bang But With a Whimper? Mind Games - Chapter One of Two “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain
What If “It” Doesn’t End With a Bang But With a Whimper? Mind Games - Chapter One of Two | zero hedge
Consciousness and Complexity
Recently my wife Ramona and I watched a PBS program entitled " Ape Genius ." The program sought to uncover the cognitive abilities and limits of the great apes: Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Orangutans, and Gorillas. Their mental capabilities were contrasted with those of humans. The deep question posed was: Given the many similarities between humans and great apes, why are we so different? Only humans have art, music, global organization and so on? Why?
Many cognitive biases have been demonstrated by research in psychology and behavioral economics . These are systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment. Although the reality of these biases is confirmed by replicable research, there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them. [ 1 ] Some are effects of information-processing rules, called heuristics , that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments.
List of cognitive biases
Lateral thinking
Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic . The term was coined in 1967 by Edward de Bono . As taught by de Bono, lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from standard perceptions of creativity as either "vertical" logic (the classic method for problem solving: working out the solution step-by-step from the given data) or "horizontal" imagination (having a thousand ideas but being unconcerned with the detailed implementation of them). [ edit ] Methods