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Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Learn to become an observer of life and an observer of self.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
The evolution of our strange, extremely other-obsessed brains has brought with it weird side-effects. Human obsession with faces is so fierce we see them almost anywhere: in fire; in clouds; down spooky corridors; in toast. We sense minds everywhere too. Just as the brain models the outside world it also builds models of minds. This skill, which is
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.