The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives: Amazon.co.uk: Shankar Vedantam This book by journalist Shankar Vedantam is yet another contribution to the interesting and important genre I like to call "why smart people do dumb things." The basic idea with all of these books is that our minds have conscious and unconscious parts. The conscious mind is rational, analytic, slow, deliberate, evolutionarily more recent, and is the part we most closely associate with our identity. By contrast, the unconscious mind takes heuristic shortcuts (leaps to conclusions), is multitasking and quick, is evolutionarily more primitive, and is inaccessible to introspection, so we're not usually aware of its activity (hence the term "hidden brain"). The heuristics employed by the hidden brain are essential and usually useful, including keeping our behavior in line with moral and legal norms, but they can also cause various inappropriate biases which can lead to serious errors of judgment in all domains of life, both individual and social. If all of this sounds familiar, it should.
UN CERTAIN DOCTEUR GROF Par Pascale Catala, PSITT n°43/44, 1986 Stanislas Grof, psychiatre d'origine tchécoslovaque, est devenu un des pionniers de la psychologie transpersonnelle, aux côtés de chercheurs comme Abraham Maslow, Ken Wilber, James Fadiman, Assagioli ... . La démarche de Grof a été essentiellement expérimentale, (en Tchécoslovaquie puis aux Etats-Unis ), et les résultats qu'il a obtenus n'ont pas fini d'étonner et de dérouter. Actuellement, Grof, ayant formulé des hypothèses théoriques intéressantes, essaie d'élargir et de rattacher ses découvertes aux autres domaines "de pointe". 1- La psychologie Transpersonnelle C'est la branche la plus moderne de la psychologie, qui, par-delà l'étude de la pathologie et de la santé psychique ordinaire, s'intéresse au summum de l'expérience intérieure humaine. 2 - La démarche de Grof Depuis une vingtaine d'années, Grof étudie les propriétés du LSD. 3-Les différents types d'expériences LSD répertoriés par Grof 3.1 Les expériences esthétiques 5-Essais théoriques
Searching the Brain for the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving But who wants to troll? Let lightning strike. Let the clues suddenly coalesce in the brain — “field!” — as they do so often for young children solving a riddle. And now, modern neuroscientists are beginning to tap its source. In a just completed study, researchers at found that people were more likely to solve word puzzles with sudden insight when they were amused, having just seen a short comedy routine. “What we think is happening,” said Mark Beeman, a neuroscientist who conducted the study with Karuna Subramaniam, a graduate student, “is that the humor, this positive mood, is lowering the brain’s threshold for detecting weaker or more remote connections” to solve puzzles. This and other recent research suggest that the appeal of puzzles goes far deeper than the -reward rush of finding a solution. And that escape is all the more tantalizing for being incomplete. “It’s all about you, using your own mind, without any method or schema, to restore order from chaos,” Dr.
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The Ego Trick: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Baggini Those of us not entirely unsympathetic to the philosophical enterprise should be reassured by this memorable image, in itself almost all the recommendation this fascinating book needs. Julian Baggini is a practitioner who has evidently managed to retain, despite constant professional exposure to the writings of countless Great Minds, both a sense of humour and a healthy regard for human foibles and the fallibility of philosophers. That this book is both readable and comprehensible by ordinary mortals is no slight on Baggini's philosophical credentials. His intellect is sharper than most, and his verdicts on the self are delivered with a surprising degree of certitude. "The solidity of self is an illusion; the self itself is not. Baggini's surefooted conclusions are of course a million miles away from dogmatic assertion. "On the question of whether we are physical beings or not, the case should be closed."
Le Tchèque qui faisait mourir et renaître sous LSD | Clés Un bout d'immense jouissance, en relation drue, érotique, avec la nature autour de lui, sous lui, contre son ventre couché sur la terre humide, narines en alerte dans les mousses grasses... Un autre se prend pour un tabouret. Un troisième se retrouve au néolithique, luttant contre un auroch. Certains voyagent en enfer et hurlent : « Disjonctez-moi ! L'affaire commence à Prague, en 1955, à l'Institut psychiatrique que dirige le docteur Lubomir Hanzlicek, sous le haut contrôle du patron des psychiates tchèques, le docteur Roubicek, la Tchécoslovaquie est alors écrasée depuis neuf ans sous la botte russe. Mais ces jeunes psy sont peu armés. Parmi les centaines de produits inconnus que les psychiatres tchèques doivent tester sur leurs patients, il y a une petite famille qui les fascine assez : les hallucinogènes, en particulier le déjà célèbre LSD 25. C'est précisément pour cette raison qu'il intéressait également les psychiatres. Nous sommes en 1956. Bien des analyses s'éclairent.
Out of Our Brains The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Where is my mind? The question — memorably posed by rock band the Pixies in their 1988 song — is one that, perhaps surprisingly, divides many of us working in the areas of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Look at the science columns of your daily newspapers and you could be forgiven for thinking that there is no case to answer. There is no limit, it seems, to the different tasks that elicit subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, different patterns of neural activation. As our technologies become better adapted to fit the niche provided by the biological brain, they become more like cognitive prosthetics. But then again, maybe not. Is it possible that, sometimes at least, some of the activity that enables us to be the thinking, knowing, agents that we are occurs outside the brain? The idea sounds outlandish at first. Such an idea is not new. Please don’t get me wrong.
Mike Patton Wins Best Vocalist in 5th Loudwire Music Awards In the 5th Annual Loudwire Music Awards, our Best Vocalist of 2015 category was extremely diverse with multiple singers coming close to a victory. When it was all said and done, Faith No More‘s Mike Patton came out on top. Faith No More experienced a fantastic 2015, releasing their first album in 18 years, Sol Invictus, to massive praise. Longtime fans went insane for Patton’s vocal approach on songs like “Motherf—er,” “Superman” and “Sunny Side Up,” while Faith No More acquired plenty of young followers through the strength of Sol Invictus. Faith No More visited many parts of the globe in 2015, bringing Mike Patton’s extremely dynamic voice throughout North America along with less visited countries such as Slovakia, New Zealand and Costa Rica. Congratulations to the legendary Mike Patton for beating out close contenders like Shinedown’s Brent Smith and Ghost’s Papa Emeritus III to win Best Vocalist of 2015 in the 5th Annual Loudwire Music Awards.
Whoa!! The High Voltage Larry Carlson!! My buddy Max just turned me onto this guy. Dude! I've 'seen' a lot of this stuff on my astral voyages! We used to call this kind of bloke a 'high brother' - check it out if you haven't already heard of him. Stanislav Grof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Biography[edit] As founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (founded in 1977), he went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remains in today. Grof was featured in the film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a 2006 documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.[3] He was also featured in five other documentaries.[4] Teachings[edit] Grof distinguishes between two modes of consciousness: the hylotropic and the holotropic.[5] The hylotropic[6] refers to "the normal, everyday experience of consensus reality All the cultures in human history except the Western industrial civilization have held holotropic states of consciousness in great esteem. Grof connects modern man's inability to fully and honestly grapple with his psychic conflicts to the contemporary ecological crisis: Bibliography[edit] See also[edit]
Stress cuts aging brain's ability to learn new tricks Like the saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," the aging human brain has a tough time learning from new experiences, suggests a study on rats showing tiny brain-cell structures needed for this process get quite rigid in their twilight years. Rats are generally reliable models for human brain studies, so the results should hold for us, the researchers say. The researchers looked at the prefrontal cortex, the brain region that controls various cognitive processes and plays a role in higher learning. For example, stress causes nerve cells to shrink and lose synapses, or the connections between nerve cells where communication occurs. Stressed brain To find out how stress affects this plasticity in aging brains, the researchers exposed young, middle-age and old rats to a stressor known to elicit nerve cell changes in the prefrontal cortex. In the young rats, the brain cells lost many of their spines, which grew back after a stress-free period. Keep Your Mind Sharp