Mind
Volunteering only helps you live longer if living longer isn’t why you did it
Yogurt calms you down? To materialists, that proves that your mind is an illusion
Can human spatial sense help tell humans from machines?
Friends offer us Freud debunkers – but after you hear about the cocaine …
Thought for the day: “I don’t believe in science; science is our defence against belief.”
Do intelligent desgn theorists need the supernatural – just to leave room for a little mystery in life?
Philosophers deride neuroscience attempts to attack free will
Mind: Intelligent management of post-disaster trauma: Forget the weepy-weepy
Mindfulness is for people who want to be people, not ants or apes
9-11: How we die does matter
In “How we die matters” Danny Eisen, (The Ottawa Citizen, September 10, 2011) recounts, “My cousin fought his killers as his plane headed for the World Trade Center.” Like virtually everyone else who knew Danny [Lewin], I wondered if more had happened in the last minutes of that flight. The question would be answered later by American authorities. They informed our family that Danny had been stabbed and critically wounded while physically confronting Mohamed Atta and his colleagues. Seated in their midst in business class, Danny fought, alone and unarmed, to prevent the hijacking. Alone? While Danny did not succeed in preventing the tragedy on Flight 11, his impact on 9/11 would be profound. As the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, Read More ›
Mind mapping provides clues to human thinking? Not really.
In “Charles Manson, Please Save Marriage & Family Therapy”, family therapist David Schnarch pleads for a reconsideration of “mind-mapping”, Applied neuroscience is a hot topic among mental health professionals, and there are two different views of mind-mapping in ascendance: One is based on attachment theory, which proposes that mind-mapping develops by parents giving children accurate feedback about who their child is, and parents having a coherent mind and allowing their children to map them. According to this view, people don’t develop mind-mapping ability if this is not valued in their families growing up, or if parents’ minds are not coherent, or if parents’ give children a distorted picture of their own minds. As a result, such children do not develop Read More ›