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
Their finding is part of wider realization in the neuroscience community, that our brain does not simply react to what comes in through our senses. Instead, we have a predictive brain, that permanently predicts what comes next. The expected sensory input is then suppressed. We see the world from the inside out, rather than from the outside in.
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Neuroscience News • Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux • 3 highlights
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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
What is Mind?
