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The problem of believing in belief on Mind Hacks

By on January 24, 2011 in belief systems, philosophy, psychology

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The problem of believing in belief on the mindhacks blog

What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith Time Magazine

The pictures above are from a study by Sam Harris that examined neurophysiological correlates of belief statements by a number of psychology expermement subjects.

Who is Sam Harris. Here is what Mind Hacks has to say about him.

Sam Harris is better known as a leading atheist, but he’s also completing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and a forthcoming study by Harris is a flawed but important contribution to how we understand the neuropsychology of belief. Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Who is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? RAW and Reality Tunnels

By on September 23, 2010 in belief systems, counterculture, cyberculture, people, philosophy, psychology, videos

Link for this Post is the above YouTube Video

I found this video while working on the book Memes for a New Culture which is happening on the main Vision Thing Blog. I have been struggling this afternoon to to make a transition from my rap about Lao Tsu’s “The Tao That Can Be Named is Not the Eternal Tao” to belief systems, while avoiding talking about memes or consciousness which are coming up later in the book. What I am attempting to get at is a more precise way of describing what my old friend, the late Robert Anton Read more »

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In The Province Of The Mind on Thinking Allowed John C. Lilly, M.D.

By on September 12, 2010 in artificial intelligence, authors, belief systems, community, counterculture, people, philosophy, psychology, science

Link for this Post: Transcript of Dr. John Lilly Interviewed by Jeffery Mishlove

I found this written transcript of a long defunct television show called Thinking Aloud. I did not research its origins thoroughly but my guess it is from 1976 or so. The reason I believe this (no pun intended) is that I did my first newspaper interview around that time for a small LA Underground newspaper around then and it was with Dr. Lilly.

He had just completed the same book, The Center of the Cyclone which he talks about extensively in the interview. I found it while looking Read more »

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What Happens When You Start Believing in Your Beliefs? — Less Wrong

By on September 5, 2010 in belief systems, new memes, philosophy, psychology, science

Link for this Post:Belief in Belief on Less Wrong

Each of us believes in a variety of ideas, concepts and credos. Taken together, some social scientists describe constellations of these beliefs as our "belief system."

Having belief systems works well in navigating the uncertain time-space we call reality. The belief system provide a mental map or model with which we use to chart a course and make decisions.

Until of course it does not work. (more of this on Vision Thing).

This somewhat murky discussion of this subject on the Less Wrong community takes a swing and discussing this Read more »

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