Meditate Your Way To A More Creative Mind
Re: the research of therapist and meditation teacher named Ron Alexander. “Mindfulness helps you to build what I call ‘mind strength,’ ” Alexander says. “Your awareness and consciousness become...
View ArticleAt ‘Empathy in Action,’ a Movement Begins
Think back to your third-grade report card. Remember the subjects? Math, Reading, Science, and Physical Education probably come to mind. But Empathy? Probably not. You’re not alone. In fact, you’re...
View ArticleMinority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
Scientists have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. shared by @SamRose See on...
View Article“Come to the edge.”
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” Guillaume Apollinaire shared by Jean Russell @NurtureGirl See on...
View ArticleHow the Occupy Movement is hacking your consciousness
Burning Man, the emerging paradigm shift, and how your mind has become occupied. Matador Network See on matadornetwork.com
View ArticleThe Actualized Community — DeepFUN
I was thinking about confluence and coliberation, as I oft do, and started wondering if there were an equivalent to self-actualization, but on a social scale. In other words, would it make sense, under...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Social Media is the Next Phase of Humanity [VIDEO]
“Technology is our creation; we weren’t created by technology, so let’s use our creation to bring about a healing,” Chopra said. “At the most fundamental level, we are not just connected, we are...
View ArticleReality Tunnel
Reality tunnel (aka belief system, world view, world model, reference frame, intentionality etc) … coined by Timothy Leary and popularised by Robert Anton Wilson. … the concept that with a subconscious...
View ArticleBuddhism and the Brain
Neuroscience tells us the thing we take as our unified mind is an illusion, that our mind is not unified and can barely be said to “exist” at all. Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc...
View ArticleA braindead approach to free will | Angus Kennedy
In Pagel’s view, we do not have culture because we are human or conscious or have language or labour; it is the other way round. What gives meaning to being human is culture, ‘something akin to a...
View ArticleThe Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel
See on Scoop.it – Consciousness The Internet now already has a couple of billion nodes. Each node is a computer. Each one of these computers contains a couple of billion transistors, so it is in...
View ArticleAWE: Scrambling mental models
Enjoy the video, then consider: At the University Hospital of Geneva (UHG), neurologist Fabienne Picard has been studying for years a very rare phenomenon that scientific literature barely talks about...
View ArticleHuman consciousness is much more than mere brain activity
See on Scoop.it – Consciousness In Raymond Tallis’ book, Aping Mankind – about which he was talking this week at the British Academy – he describes the cultural disease that afflicts us when we assume...
View ArticlePrepared for cosmic contact, or not?
So apparently humankind has too much self-consciousness to make meaningful contact with any extraterrestrial civilizations. Note to self: nurture your "cosmic consciousness" more often. Reshared post...
View ArticleDavid Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?
Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: "There's nothing we know about more directly.... but at the same time it's the most mysterious phenomenon...
View ArticleLearning
Let me give you a rather lengthy overview of my curated “Learning” snippets. These links reflect my present understanding (at the time of writing/re-writing [11 Aug 14]) of Learning and Education (a...
View ArticleConsciousness
Let me give you a rather lengthy overview of my curated “Consciousness” snippets. These links reflect my present exploration of consciousness (at the time of writing/re-writing [12 Aug 14])....
View ArticleTechno-telepathy over internet: Brain-to-brain communication
Citation: Brain wave-sensing technology, which utilizes electroencephalography-powered headsets, has already been demonstrated to do all kinds of impressive things, such as piloting an aircraft or...
View ArticleConsciousness is a mathematical pattern: Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014 –...
As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as “food, rearranged.” That makes his answer to complicated questions like “What is consciousness?” simple: It’s just math. Why? Because it’s the patterns, not...
View ArticleManipulating brain cells and how memories link w/ emotions
Citation: [T]he researchers found that they could reverse the emotional association of specific memories by manipulating brain cells with optogenetics.. . .[T]hey label hippocampal cells that are...
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