Consciousness is one of those words. You know what I mean, words like love and god. Words that have different meanings to different people and a wide variety of shared and public definitions as well. Another of those kind of words is consciousness. I admit that its not used nearly as much as the words I gave as examples but it is one of those words that everyone who hears it have a different notion of what it means. Indeed consciousness is so lacking in a definition that it has been the subject of a growing number of books, each Read more »
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Mysticism and Physics Revisited
In my research and web browsing today I can upon this interesting new book and audio book called How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
The book has some interesting reviews and has a Blackstone audio version as well as print and Kindle. The book has good reviews so it might be good to take a look at later.
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The problem of believing in belief on Mind Hacks
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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 »
By Bruce Eisner
Magnetism and Hallucinated Great Balls of Lightening
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Magnetism and Hallucinations on Sean Kearney's blog Bionic Brain
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists on the Technology Review blog
Sean Kearny sites a post in a blog post which suggests that magnetism may be responsible for people seeing ball lightening in storms. The basis of the speculation is a paper by a physicist on the effects of transcranial stimulation Transcranial stimulation in plain English means that someone's brain is a repeated series of magmatic pulses.
Transcranial stimulation is something I have read a bit about but would certainly not be up for Read more »
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- Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open LibraryLink for this Post: Read the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary at the Open Library In April 1995, I moderated a panel at an event called the Whole Life Expo in San Fransisco, California called "The Future of Consciousness." Among the panel members was Timothy Leary. There was quite a bit of attention on Dr. Leary that afternoon. Earlier in […]
- Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle DaySixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the […]
