Sublime

Backster achieved his notoriety from a series of experiments that purported to demonstrate that living organisms read and respond to a person’s thoughts.

By far the best theory for describing the principles of our irrational decisions is something called Prospect Theory. Created in 1979 by the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, prospect theory describes how people choose between options that involve risk, like in a negotiation. The theory argues that people are drawn to sure things over

committed search for a center of gravity of vigilance in oneself.

We have begun the process of revealing how the mind works and raised the possibility that your thoughts are not you.

Os cientistas sociais sabem há muito tempo que costumamos ser superconfiantes quando julgamos a nós mesmos.

Although these measures are only in their nascent stages, they show us that quantifying biological knowledge—information that aids far-from-equilibrium survival—can someday be a tractable task.

Seguir nossa intuição e racionalizá-la depois nem sempre é ruim.

Our global success is due, at least in part, to a specific evolutionary trait: the ability to share attention with others.

les plus fertiles de mon existence. Depuis une dizaine d’années, je participe également à plusieurs programmes de recherches scientifiques qui visent à mettre en évidence les effets de la méditation pratiquée sur de longues durées. Il en ressort qu’il est possible de développer considérablement des qualités telles que l’attention, l’équilibre émoti