Harmonia Philosophica

Month: January 2019

Brain, Brain, Reality, Reality, Senses

2019/01/06

Blinking brain.

When your attention shifts from one place to another, your brain blinks. The blinks are momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of Vanderbilt psychologists who discovered the phenomenon while studying the benefits of attention. “Attention is beneficial because it increases our ability to detect visual signals even…
Axioms, Chemistry, Particles, physical laws, Scientific theories

2019/01/02

Electrical paradoxes. (Do they exist?)

A number of chemistry researchers from several institutions including Lund University in Sweden, have managed to identify a new mechanism that makes certain charged biomolecules attach to each other. The biomolecules in the present study serve as models for antibacterial peptides, that is, protein-like molecules that fulfil important functions in the body. “Antibacterial peptides are…