Tag Archives: mind & brain

Seeing sometimes really is believing

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

The McGurk Effect: “The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.”  The video below demonstrates this illusion with the sound  ’ba’ that becomes heard as ‘fa’ when the movement of … Continue reading →

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The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self or Well-being and Happiness

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

http://www.adrtimes.com/articles/2011/10/18/daniel-kahneman-the-riddle-of-experience-vs-memory.html http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html Continue reading →

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Empathy and Humankind

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

According to its website, For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting … Continue reading →

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Web Clip: Jonathan Haidt on “The New Science of Morality”

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Web Clip: “The New Science of Morality”, from www.edge.org: “Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies.”  The acronym there being WEIRD. “Our findings … Continue reading →

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Mediator Questions or What Mary Knows

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

Last February, I published a post entitled, Where is the mind situated?, that suggested that such a question already presupposes the type of answer that will be given, viz. that the mind is a thing, a substance, with a physical … Continue reading →

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“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain. . .”

Posted on March 2, 2009 by

“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness” is the title of a new book by Alva Noë, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley, that was published … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Biases

Posted on February 27, 2009 by

[. . .] questionnaires can be designed to encourage the answers you want. People’s opinions are not objective facts like their height and weight, they change depending on the context and on how they are asked. (H/T: Mind Hacks)

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Where is the mind situated?

Posted on February 9, 2009 by

Stephanie West Allen’s Brains on Purpose™ points to an interesting paper, “Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience” written by two law professors that deals with some problematic premises regarding the relationship of mind to brain. “Here’s an excerpt from the … Continue reading →

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Mind & Generosity

Posted on January 18, 2009 by

Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swiss Miss has pointed me towards two wonderful gifts.  The first is a video clip of a lecture by the psychiatrist and originator of logotherapy, Viktor Frankl, and the second is a quotation that the latter … Continue reading →

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Interdependence

Posted on December 21, 2008 by

“Mind boggling, how interdependent we are.” The human brain takes up 2% of the body’s weight yet requires about 25% of its oxygen. The number of states the brain is capable of at any given moment is 1 followed by … Continue reading →

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