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Floating
Flotation Tank Courtesy Harmony Yoga & Wellness Center, Tucker, GA 30084 “When one realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.” ― P.D. Ouspensky In 1951, the composer John...
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Lost History: Revenge of the Nerds
About 1.8 million years ago Homo erectus, one of the better known ancestors of humans, emerged and developed what is known as the Acheulean tool tradition. Although Homo erectus had a cranial capacity...
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Brain Organization, Not Size, Key to Intelligence
This is good news for all of us who believe we still have additional potential for biological evolution before we need to plug in non-biological implants. A new study, Brain reorganization, not...
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Are we hybrids?
Dr. Eugene McCarthy, a Ph.D in Genetics and an expert in hybridization, speculates in Human origins: Are we hybrids? that human beings are the result of hybridization between chimpanzees and pigs. A...
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Snakes On A Brain
Tree of Knowledge (courtesy Wikipedia) In The Cosmic Serpent Jeremy Narby presents a novel theory that the snakes often in seen in the visions of people taking ayahuasca actually are visualizations of...
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Consciousness: Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing?
Eurasian Magpie – image from from Wikimedia Commons Consciousness is like the weather. Since everybody experiences it everybody has an idea about it. Philosophers take it as their unique prerogative...
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The Raw and the Cooked
In a 1964 book, The Raw and the Cooked, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss charts a winding course through the myths of the Bororo people of South America. Beginning with a story of the rape of a...
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EM Fields and Consciousness
If consciousness is in some way physical, what exactly composes it? The widely discussed theories today seem to fall into one of two categories: Consciousness is information processing in one form or...
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Evolution, Learning, and Uncertainty
A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I’m speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn’t really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the...
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I can’t remember how I first came across Robert Pepperell’s Consciousness as a Physical Process Caused by the Organization of Energy in the Brain. At the time, I remember the paper struck me as...
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Civil Servant With No Brain Explained
Occasionally I have seen various papers, blog posts, and comments referencing the famous 44 year French civil servant who lives a normal life seemingly without a brain. Sometimes the writers demand an...
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I’ve compared the mind to a model but I’ve struggled to find a good example of the type of model it is. We know there are different types of models. In science most models are abstract and...
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