Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
Memories are not a true or false picture of the past; they are a Monet lily pond.
Kevin Berger • Your Memories Are Like Paintings
The next time you’re driving home in a car or sitting down to enjoy a meal, spare some thought for the ways in which the neurochemical soup in your brain mimics your gut: helping you to digest complex patterns of information as you navigate the intricacies of your daily life.
James M Shine • To grasp how serotonin works on the brain, look to the gut | Psyche Ideas
Scientists have demonstrated that, as the years go by, much of what we think we remember is false. It seems our brains can't store every detail we experience, so we recall the gist of events — enough to create a story that makes sense to us. Every time we recall a story or tell it to others, we change small bits depending on whether our audience... See more
We change our memories each time we recall them, but that doesn’t mean we’re lying
To What Extent Are We Ruled by Unconscious Forces? - Neuroscience News
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neural pathways we don’t use die off over time. What makes our brains hold on to these pathways — and create more — is not simply repeating the same things we’ve learned over and over again, but continually taking on difficult problems.
Stanford duck syndrome: How the myth of effortless genius hurts learning
Creativity and Disruption: Creativity is described as emerging from the disruption of these predictive models. When our expectations are challenged or disrupted, it can lead to new ways of thinking and innovative ideas.
Balance Between Order and Chaos: The balance between order (predictive models) and chaos (disruption) is crucial for fostering creativity. Too much order can stifle creativity, while too much chaos can lead to confusion and lack of direction.
Technology Roadmap
Exploring the potential of neurotechnology and non-invasive stimulation techniques to stabilize lucid dreaming, paving the way for greater control of dream states and expanding human consciousness.
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Roshi Joan Halifax tells a story about witnessing a conversation in the early 1970s between Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, and Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist and systems theorist, about the mind. Bateson asked, “Where is the mind?” Salk pointed to his own head. Bateson chuckled, shook his head, and pointed to the space between... See more