Tag: Self
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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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Seek peace. Conquer the world.
Modern man wants to conquer the world. He wishes to control the universe. Because he thinks he knows himself. Because he believes the cosmos should bow to him. And the cosmos laughs. And man dies in agony. For there is nothing to conquer but yourself. There is nothing to control except your desire to control…
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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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Forgetting who you are… One experience at a time…
Researchers have revealed that infants aged 4- to 5-months already hold a primary cerebral representation of audiovisual integration of material information in their right hemisphere, and the number of types of material which can be processed by infants' brain increases with the experience of the materials. This finding may lead to understand the trajectory of…
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