Tag: non-thinking
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Children’s Philosophy Episodes 1 & 2: How a child answers the great questions by… not answering
About Children’s Philosophy: A series of articles that will show how small children answer the greatest philosophical questions of humanity. Philosophers need to question everything. And in order to do that, one must think as a child again! One can find wisdom in crazy persons and in children. So that is what I did: I…
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Truth Puzzles: Solving the mysteries of the world…
Philosophers have pondered on the answers to the great metaphysical questions of humankind for aeons… And they have failed miserably to find definitive answers. Every philosopher has his or her own views, which usually are in complete opposition to the views of other philosophers. There is currently no way to decide who is right and…
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Thinking simple… Thinking complex…
Neuroscientists have revealed that a simple brain region, known for processing basic sensory information, can also guide complex feats of mental activity. The new study involving mice demonstrated that cells in the somatosensory cortex, the brain area responsible for touch, also play a key role in reward learning. It is the basis for how we…
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Language. Thought. Time. Dasein.
The relationship between language and thought is controversial. One hypothesis is that language fosters habits of processing information that are retained even in non-linguistic domains. Languages, for instance, vary in their branching direction. In typical right-branching (RB) languages, like Italian, the head of the sentence usually comes first, followed by a sequence of modifiers that…
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Staying awake. Sleeping more. Not understanding. Knowing everything…
New Michigan State University research suggested babies who are less active get less sleep, something new parents may want to consider when looking for possible solutions for the long, sleepless nights. Napping doesn’t help either. In fact, babies who slept less at night, yet napped more during the day, still weren’t able to get as…
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