Category: Self
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The dark self…
Both world history and everyday life are full of examples of people acting ruthlessly, maliciously, or selfishly. In psychology as well as in everyday language, we have diverse names for the various dark tendencies human may have, most prominently psychopathy (lack of empathy), narcissism (excessive self-absorption), and Machiavellianism (the belief that the ends justify the…
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The birth of consciousness…
Think about consciousness for long enough, and you’ll drive yourself to distraction. To psychologist Julian Jaynes, the question of consciousness was big enough to last a lifetime. His answer? Consciousness is much smaller, much rarer, and much younger than we tend to think. Forget about wondering if a dog, cat, or earthworm has consciousness —…
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Past experiences. Looking at yourself…
Past experiences shape what we see more than what we are looking at now. A new study argues that humans recognize what they are looking at by combining current sensory stimuli with comparisons to images stored in memory. (1) Seeing what you see. Only because you have seen other things before. Go back. And try…
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Humans. Universe. Blank books…
A scientist claims that we might all be the universe’s alter egos. (1) You. Me. Him. Parts of the same universe. Alter egos of a cosmos which is alive. A cosmos which as we stare at it… It stares right back at us… A universe full of everything… Manifestation of life full of nothing… An…
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Arousal. Awareness. Consciousness?
Scientists found a connection between the brainstem region involved in arousal and regions involved in awareness, two prerequisites for consciousness. (1) We firmly believe that consciousness is being awake and aware. We believe we are more conscious when we are more arouse, part of the cosmos, doing things, thinking, speaking, running. But we have been…
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