With thanks to Dan: Time is one of the most difficult properties of the universe to understand. . . . I often contemplate how my life has unfolded and some of the events and people that came my way at seemingly exactly the right time. I know I’m not smart enough to have put […]
Mysticism, and reactions of readers, to the mysticism QUOTE: P. 63 – 65 “I had experiences there that changed my life. In time these strange things that began to happen to me when I was out on the prairie, not only in that particular field, but in others as well, began to come together […]
– – – Good grief! Good thing it doesn’t take me five years to get all postings from “draft” to “published”! NANCY WRITES: Sadly, evidence is not sufficient if people cannot hear it. That is why I appreciate Randy Olson’s Connection: Hollywood Storytelling Meets Critical Thinking. “If we want to communicate with people who […]
Radio on. Happened to catch this reply to a question: Max Greenfield, CBC programme “Q”, at the 16:52 minute mark: Who is to say? . . . Life, in general, is more fun if (chuckling) you kind of get out of the way and just sort of let it happen and be […]
April 10, 2017 TO: CBC Radio, The Current, Host Anna Maria Tremonti RE: (April 10) Why we think we know everything, a cognitive scientist explains Note: in this interview, Tremonti and the interviewee, Steven Sloman, agreed with each other that vaccines is a sacrosanct topic, not open to discussion. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-10-2017-1.4061220/why-we-think-we-know-everything-a-cognitive-scientist-explains-1.4061245 I mailed my reaction. […]
I want to integrate this with other articles we have circulated, the science that studies neural pathways. Don’t have time at the moment. http://www.nationofchange.org/ny-times-uncovers-conservative-attacks-and-then-prints-one-both-are-front-page-1385475417 The NY Times has many virtues and some important flaws. Both were evident on the paper’s front page this week and there is a lot to be learned by what did […]
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-09-28&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory 17:36 minutes • Filmed Jun 2013 • Posted Sep 2013 • TEDGlobal 2013 Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn’t happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It’s more common than you might […]
I replied to a friend: From my perspective, human brains are wired to find patterns. We need to be able to do that, in order to make sense of the world and our lives. And, in order to survive – – recognize the patterns that lead to harm. My brain seems to be good at […]
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY OR, same thing, but on Dan Simons’ blog: http://www.dansimons.com/videos.html. Watch the top video. OR: To the right see the menu of 8 videos. The top right-hand one should be 19.16 minutes, of Dan’s TED Talk, demonstrating students passing volleyballs. Try that one. The work of Dan Simons is valuable.
I believe this is the growing consciousness. Many more people are “getting it” – that we are all part and parcel of the same thing, the one, along with the rest of creation. It’s hard getting past the idea that we are separate. http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/einsteins-theory-of-religion/ “Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction […]