5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind

The Acceleration of Addictiveness July 2010 What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that created them is accelerating. We wouldn't want to stop it. No one doubts this process is accelerating, which means increasing numbers of things we like will be transformed into things we like too much. [2] As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much. The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. The next 40 years will bring us some wonderful things. Most people won't, unfortunately. These two senses are already quite far apart. Societies eventually develop antibodies to addictive new things. As knowledge spread about the dangers of smoking, customs changed. It took a while though—on the order of 100 years. In fact, even that won't be enough. Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. Notes

Conscience Gérard SabahGroupe Langage et CognitionLIMSI -- CNRS " La conscience est au psychologue ce que la gravité est au physicien : inévitable. " (Baars) Pendant de longues années, les chercheurs en intelligence artificielle et en sciences cognitives se sont gardés d'aborder le thème de la conscience, qui apparaissait comme une notion trop vague pour permettre une étude scientifique et pour fonder la cognition. Un renouveau de cette question semble dû à la théorie darwinienne de l'évolution bien qu'Eccles (Eccles 1992) se demande à ce sujet comment des organismes vivants ont acquis des expériences mentales -- non matérielles -- dans un monde autre que celui qui contenait alors tout ce qui existait ? Ainsi, la Science Cognitive, vue comme la science de l'esprit, ne peut négliger les facteurs sociaux, les aspects émotionnels et la conscience. 1.1. On peut également souligner l'existence de deux types fondamentalement distincts de processus. 1.2. * Sélectivité. * Exclusivité. * Enchaînement.

On Language The Great Language Land Grab By BEN ZIMMER When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? March 27, 2011, Sunday ‘Cannot Be Underestimated’ This perplexing turn of phrase is extremely common, even among careful writers and speakers. January 23, 2011, Sunday Auto(in)correct How smartphones are making us look dumb. January 16, 2011, Sunday 'Treasure Trove' Keith Otis Edwards e-mails: ''In the Dec. 12 On Language column, I see that hackneyed phrase treasure trove. January 09, 2011, Sunday On Language - Junk The endless reusability of a trashy term. January 02, 2011, Sunday On Language - ‘Acronym’ A reader asks if “acronyms” must be pronounced as words. December 19, 2010, Sunday On Language - The King’s Tongue Twisters Did vocal gymnastics help cure George VI’s stutter? December 12, 2010, Sunday On Language - Web The 20th anniversary of a research proposal that remade the language.

The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen Authoritarian followers Mind Control Subliminals By Dick Sutphen Summary of Contents The Birth of Conversion The Three Brain Phases How Revivalist Preachers Work Voice Roll Technique Six Conversion Techniques 1. keeping agreements 2.physical and mental fatigue 3. increase the tension 4. Summary of Contents The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735. I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own business. The Birth of Conversion Charles J.

The NASA Space Pen In this week's Friday funny, journalist and author Eugene Byrne looks at an amusing urban legend much beloved of engineers, and frequently used in management seminars because of its powerful moral about overcomplicated solutions. The story In the 1960s, the story goes, NASA realised that astronauts would need a special pen for recording data, instrument readings etc. when in space. This pen would have to be capable of writing upside-down, in zero gravity, and in extremely high and low temperatures. NASA enlisted some of the finest minds in the country and set them to work. The truth Initially, American astronauts used pencils, too, but they weren't popular. It was actually an American pen manufacturer, Paul C Fisher (1913-2006) who came up with the solution in 1965. True, it did cost around a million dollars to develop, but that was all Fisher's money.

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