Confessions Of A Law Student With No Desire To Be A Lawyer I am a writer, a painter, a dog owner, a prankster, a daughter, a friend, and an avid believer in the sanctity of Star Wars. However, most of my time during the past two years has been poured into my alternate identity, a law student. I’m not particularly bitter or unhappy with my legal education, but I do get frustrated with the feeling that my life is on hold until I can put those magical two letters, J.D., at the end of my name. My journey to attorney-hood has been rocky, and at times I can’t help but feel a little detached from my chosen profession. While some of my peers indulge in the process of comprehending the legal system, I often find myself reacting to my education as a penance for my liberal-arts degree. Somewhere in the battle for class rank, I lost myself in the intellectual bloodbath. As this realization bore into my naive spirit, I contemplated quitting, but had no idea how to start over.
Reconstructive memory: Confabulating the past, simulating the future | Mo Costandi The term ‘Rashomon effect’ is often used by psychologists in situations where observers give different accounts of the same event,and describes the effect of subjective perceptions on recollection. The phenomenon is named after a 1950 film by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was with Rashōmon that Western cinema-goers discovered both Kurosawa and Japanese film in general – the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film the following year. Rashōmon is an adaptation of two short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The film is an examinantion of human nature and the nature of reality. The idea that we do not remember things as they actually happened is usually attributed to Sir Frederick Bartlett (1886-1969), who spent much of his professional career at Cambridge University, where he became head of the psychology department. References: Hassabis, et al. (2007). Like this: Like Loading...
SCIENTIST'S LOVE LETTER My dear ..... It has been a long time since my senses have exchanged messages with my brain to write a letter to you. You are present in all the four chambers of my heart and your beautiful image is printed on the retina of my eyes. I want your beautiful voice to keep my ear-drum vibrating like a tuning fork.I have grown your favorite roses in my garden so that their smell may keep entering my nasal passage and the beautiful and charming colour of their corolla reminds me of you. The beautiful colour of your iris attracts me like an electron is attracted towards the nucleus but the fear of your father repels me with the same force. Yesterday,your presence in the party made my heart beat at the rate of 175 beats/sec.The velocity of my blood increase at the rate of 15m/s and became 80 m/s. Your personality attracts me like a centripetal force but the medulla oblongata of my brain compels me to convert this centripetal force in centrifugal force. Always postulating. Einstein #2
The Splintered Mind: Reconstructive Memory (vs. Storage and Retrieval) and "Experience Sampling" In both cognitive science and folk psychology, the dominant metaphor for memory – a metaphor that both reflects and reinforces a certain way of thinking about it – is the metaphor of storage and retrieval (often with a search in the middle). There’s one particular aspect of this metaphor I want to highlight in this post: On the storage-and-retrieval picture, memory is a process that, once initiated, can and typically should operate largely independently of other cognitive processes. Other processes like inferring, imagining, and perceiving interfere with pure remembering. This isn’t to say, of course, that on such a model inferring, imagining, or perceiving couldn’t sometimes be helpful. Bartlett (1932), Neisser (1967), and Roediger (1980) have ably described the various infelicities of this storage-and-retrieval picture. Bartlett writes: Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces.
9 Circles of Hell (Dante's Inferno) - History Lists Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy that inspired the latest Dan Brown's bestseller of the same title describes the poet's vision of Hell. The story begins with the narrator (who is the poet himself) being lost in a dark wood where he is attacked by three beasts which he cannot escape. He is rescued by the Roman poet Virgil who is sent by Beatrice (Dante's ideal woman). Together, they begin the journey into the underworld or the 9 Circles of Hell. First Circle (Limbo) Dante’s First Circle of Hell is resided by virtuous non-Christians and unbaptized pagans who are punished with eternity in an inferior form of Heaven. Second Circle (Lust) In the Second Circle of Hell, Dante and his companion Virgil find people who were overcome by lust. Third Circle (Gluttony) When reaching the Third Circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil find souls of gluttons who are overlooked by a worm-monster Cerberus. Fourth Circle (Greed) Fifth Circle (Anger) Sixth Circle (Heresy) Seventh Circle (Violence)
Multiple memory systems Multiple Parallel Memory Systems in the Brain The multiple memory systems theory is based on evidence that different kinds of information are processed and stored in different parts of the brain. One version of this idea is illustrated in Figure 1. Neural activity originating in external and internal receptors (Input) flows through several parallel brain systems (shown in yellow), each of which is specialized to extract a different kind of information from the ongoing activity. Each system has a central structure (shown in red) that performs its information processing functions independently of the others. Interactions among the systems occurs at the level of their inputs which come from many of the same sources, and their outputs which converge to produce thought and behavior. Dissociations in Rats These three kinds of memory were explicitly dissociated by Packard, Hirsh & White (1989) and by McDonald & White (1993) using rats as subjects. Dissociations in Humans References Cohen, N.
Why My Abaya Is Blue.. | Blue Abaya First of all what is an abaya? For those who don’t know, it’s the black “overcoat” or “cloak” some Muslim women choose to wear over their normal clothing when they are in public. In KSA it is obligatory for everyone, even the non-Muslims and western women to wear it in public places. Actually I recently found out that there is no specific law that stipulates it is a MUST. And for sure it doesn’t say anywhere it has to be BLACK. The Saudi religious authorities have made the abaya compulsory for all women and the muttawa (religious police) will enforce this on all women. I really hate being part of the masses. I want to feel more like an individual. I hope slowly change will come to Saudi and women won’t be so worried about what others and the muttawa will think..I don’t believe this is what God intended. Also I think its a form of control from the Saudi government. My abaya is blue also because I feel like I’m different, I don’t fit in any ready made category.
Inside the mind of the octopus Inside the mind of the octopus by Sy Montgomery Photograph: Brandon Cole ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. For me, it was a momentous occasion. Many times I have stood mesmerized by an aquarium tank, wondering, as I stared into the horizontal pupils of an octopus’s large, prominent eyes, if she was staring back at me—and if so, what was she thinking? Not long ago, a question like this would have seemed foolish, if not crazy. Only recently have scientists accorded chimpanzees, so closely related to humans we can share blood transfusions, the dignity of having a mind. I had always longed to meet an octopus. The moment the lid was off, we reached for each other. As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers. Then there was Wendy.
Potentiality and actuality The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have. Aristotle did not consider all possibilities the same, and emphasized the importance of those that become real of their own accord when conditions are right and nothing stops them.[3] Actuality, in contrast to potentiality, is the motion, change or activity that represents an exercise or fulfillment of a possibility, when a possibility becomes real in the fullest sense.[4] Potentiality[edit] Potentiality and potency are translations of the Ancient Greek word dunamis (δύναμις) as it is used by Aristotle as a concept contrasting with actuality. Its Latin translation is "potentia", root of the English word potential, and used by some scholars instead of the Greek or English variants. Dunamis is an ordinary Greek word for possibility or capability. Actuality[edit] Energeia[edit] Two examples of energeiai in Aristotle's works are pleasure and happiness (eudaimonia). Motion[edit]
Pale Blue Dot Quotes by Carl Sagan “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. Your Age on Other Worlds Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) Click on the "Calculate" button. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman
You Are Not Your Mind Continued from page 1 The Gita explains that we can either become liberated with the help of our mind or completely degrade our consciousness. Believe it or not, the choice is ours. It may be possible to avoid unpleasant situations, uncomfortable places or unfriendly people, but the mind isn't something we can escape. The mind lives within us and controls our thoughts, emotions and actions. First of all, we have to acknowledge that we have a mind and not that we are the mind. Of course, we're not talking about controlling the mind in some forceful, unnatural way. During the mantra meditation session that I lead at Columbia, I encourage participants to incorporate a regulated practice of meditation into their daily lives. Gadadhara Pandit Dasa (also known as Pandit) has been a monk in the bhakti-yoga tradition since September of 1999.