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What Is Consciousness?

What Is Consciousness?
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Lateral Thinking Puzzles Lateral thinking puzzles that challenge your preconceptions. 1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. 2. Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose? Hint: You can make everyone happy. Solution: The old lady of course! 2. Hint: The police only know two things, that the criminal's name is John and that he is in a particular house. Solution: The fireman is the only man in the room. 3. Hint: He is very proud, so refuses to ever ask for help. Solution: The man is a dwarf. 4. Hint: It does not matter what the baby lands on, and it has nothing to do with luck. Solution: The baby fell out of a ground floor window. 5. Hint: His mother was an odd woman. Solution: When Bad Boy Bubby opened the cellar door he saw the living room and, through its windows, the garden. 6. 7.

Logical Paradoxes Some paradoxes - An Anthology 8 Things About Concentrating “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert When Mike decides to start writing his History essay, blood rushes to his anterior prefrontal cortex. Phase 2: Find and Execute The alert carries an electrical charge that’s composed of two parts: first, a search query (which is needed to find the correct neurons for executing the task of writing), and second, a command (which tells the appropriate neuron what to do). Phase 3: Disengagement 1. 2. 3. 4.

The size of my problem thermometer We all encounter problems routinely. Some of them are caused by our own mistakes, such as sleeping through the alarm or missing a meeting. Some are caused by others, (a stolen wallet) and some are just bad luck (getting stuck in a traffic jam)! Just about everything we do throughout the day involves solving some kind of problem; it’s just an unavoidable fact of life. What we can do, however, is learn to manage our problems. This involves, in part, managing the emotions that arise when a problem occurs. Our ability to regulate our emotions in problem situations greatly influences how effectively we are able to solve the problems we face. Defining Socially-Based Problems Einstein once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” Defining a social problem may include: Understanding the stated or hidden social rules—what’s expected in any given situation. A Problem-Solving Equation A socially-based problem =

How Forgiveness Can Change Your Life | Psychiatric Drug Facts By Dr. Peter Breggin 01/02/2013 Early in 1865, in his second inaugural address, little more than a month before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln stood before the bloodied, fractured United States to speak about forgiveness, the letting go of hatreds, and the binding of wounds. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Forgiveness has been central to the lives of the most admirable and inspiring people to walk the face of the Earth: Jesus, of course, and in our time from Mother Teresa to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. Mother Teresa declared: People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Gandhi told us: The weak can never forgive.

Triumph Over Suicide | Psychiatric Drug Facts By Dr. Peter Breggin 09/26/2013 Hopelessness about life is the ultimate reason many people take their own lives. Among the military, as in civilian life, suicide often results when individuals feel isolated, abandoned, and without hope. Our military and veterans need to know that we Americans appreciate their sacrifices and the horrors they have endured, and that we want to extend them help. But what kind of help should it be? Hopelessness itself is tangled up with a host of negative or self-defeating emotions, such as guilt, shame and anxiety. There is yet another potential contributor to suicide that is given far too little attention: psychiatric drug-induced suicide. At the present time, several classes of psychiatric drugs carry a black box warning about suicidality. I have done a series of easily available blogs on Huffington Post about the massive psychiatric drugging of our troops and veterans. What really helps suicidal people in the military or in civilian life?

How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It Your brain really wants to keep you alive. It is a major preoccupation, literally of life and death importance. And with good reason — the people in the past who did not detect danger got gobbled up by the wolves or bears. You are alive because your ancestors’ brains noticed the predators, and turbocharged their muscles to get away faster than their neighbors. Our skill at reacting to dangers that we can see applies to more than snakes or tigers. What Are the Invisible Killers? But there is a problem. That was then. We need to know what that is. But we are not. Which is why you are lucky to be reading this article. Where the Invisible Injuries Come From First of all, we need to understand the injuries that our healthcare system cannot see. Well, that is a surprise. How Emotional Wounds Damage Our Flesh How on earth does this happen? When a person experiences a terrifying event, one system in the brain kicks in very rapidly, the fight or flight response. The Tears in Our DNA

The Science of Why Swearing Physically Reduces Pain Dissonance cognitive Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. En psychologie sociale, la dissonance cognitive ou distorsion cognitive au Québec[1] est la simultanéité de cognitions qui entraînent un inconfort mental en raison de leur caractère inconciliable ; ou l'expérience d'une contradiction entre une cognition et une action. Dans sa théorie de la dissonance cognitive, Leon Festinger étudie les stratégies de réduction de la tension psychologique induite et de maintien de leur cohérence personnelle, y compris des stratégies d'évitement des circonstances identifiées comme source de dissonance. Relations entre les cognitions[modifier | modifier le code] Trois sortes de relations sont possibles entre deux cognitions ou entre une cognition et un comportement[1] : Ampleur de la dissonance[modifier | modifier le code] L'ampleur de la dissonance cognitive ou de la tension subie dépend de deux facteurs : L'effort pour réduire la dissonance est proportionnel à son ampleur[1]. Exemples[modifier | modifier le code]

1. What is Multimodal Literacy? – Multimodal Literacy Multimodal literacy, first proposed by Professor Gunter Kress and Professor Carey Jewitt, Institute of Education, University of London[1], is about understanding the different ways of knowledge representations and meaning-making. Multimodal literacy focuses on the design of discourse by investigating the contributions of specific semiotic resources, (e.g. language, gesture, images) co-deployed across various modalities (e.g. visual, aural, somatic), as well as their interaction and integration in constructing a coherent multimodal text (such as advertisements, posters, news report, websites, films). The pedagogical approaches in developing multimodal literacy is informed by the seminal work by Emeritus Professor Michael Halliday’s in Systemic Functional Theory[2] as well as other international scholars and researchers in the field of multimodality. [1] Jewitt, C., & Kress, G. [2] See for example, Halliday, M.A.K. (1978). 1st Dimension of Multimodal Literacy: Media Literacy Like this:

Is slavery wrong? - Atheist Alliance International Recently a Muslim asked me, “Why is it bad to own slaves?” It’s a good question and it needs an answer. What religions tell us Both Christians and Muslims can answer this question from their holy scriptures, and both would find similar answers. The Bible, in the Old and New Testaments, permits slavery. God outlaws many things from having a tattoo to eating a pork sausage but he does not outlaw slavery. What reason tells us But atheists have no god to rely on and must use evidence and reason to arrive at a conclusion. Holding slaves is about how we treat fellow human beings so, by definition, it is a moral question. When you have a choice that affects another human, the moral act is one that reduces or prevents suffering or increases well-being. I would be the first to concede that moral decisions are not always clear-cut. Fortunately, we don’t have to worry too much about these intractable edge-cases because slavery does such gross damage to a person’s well-being that it is clearly wrong.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that the other day” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof. Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new information. The phenomenon bears some similarity to synchronicity, which is the experience of having a highly meaningful coincidence, such as having someone telephone you while you are thinking about them. The reason for this is our brains’ prejudice towards patterns.

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