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Category Archives: Cognition
Wake the F#ck Up!
Parked in my Fiat Bravo at 3AM, I found myself breaking off more white rocks for my crack pipe. I was high, paranoid, and losing the plot. I had not slept in days and my mistrustful thoughts obsessed about the … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Cognition
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Deliberately Instigated Violence in an Election Year
Among political parties, only the Democrats allowed and tacitly encouraged the destruction of our cities. Of our businesses. Of our way of life. They’ve consistently tried to hide and downplay what has actually occurred. But most people aren’t that far … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Crime, Sex Differences
Tagged leftist idiocy
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Another Hangover in Church
Hangovers are painful. A hangover in church is even worse. Why do we put ourselves through such things? One of the reasons the temporary relief of being drunk gets to be so precious is that getting drunk knocks one’s conscience … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Groupthink, Idiocracy
Tagged Groupthink, psychology
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Can’t Read, Can’t Think
Ever since the Gutenberg press, the widespread effect of “deep reading” on the brains of educated classes has unleashed a rapid expansion of intellectual productivity in more modern parts of the world. Those gains are now under threat from technology, … Continue reading
You Have to be Smart to Understand How Stupid You Are
Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher in the late 1880s once wrote, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Turns out, Russell was right. Research shows that people who are … Continue reading
This is Mind Control to Major Tom
This is mind control to major Tom, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare This is major Tom to mind control, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain, satire, Valerie
Tagged Brain, electromagnetic brain stimulation
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Don’t Stay Stuck on the First Rung of Thought
It’s easy to understand why some people would see data mining as the finish rather than the first step. It promises a solution using available technology. It saves us, as well as future machines, the work of having to consider … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Machine Intelligence
Tagged Artificial Intelligence
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Can A Single Neuron Understand the Whole Brain?
Neuroscientists are beginning to ask themselves: Can a human brain understand the human brain? The sheer amount of descriptive data on the brain being generated in neuroscience labs is terribly daunting — and is being described as “an existential crisis” … Continue reading
Four Paths to Savant Mental Skills
Savant skills are typically confined to five areas: art, music, calendar calculating, mathematics and mechanical/spatial skills (Treffert 2005). These skills are [ed: in brain-damaged savants] accompanied by an exceptional ability to recall meaningless detail—memory without understanding (Sacks 2007) and a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain
Tagged electromagnetic brain stimulation
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Evolution and Human Cognition
Since the split from the chimpanzee lineage, the human brain has increased three-fold in size and has acquired abilities for vocal learning, language and intense cooperation. … the increasing availability of genome sequences from humans, chimpanzees and other primates, as … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Evolution, Genetics and Gene Expression, Human Brain
Tagged genes and IQ
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Augmenting Human Cognition
It is important to understand that human cognitive ability is strongly influenced by genes — with the genetic influence generally increasing as a person grows older, from about 40% heritability in childhood to roughly 80% heritability in late maturity. Intelligence … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain
Tagged Cognition, electromagnetic brain stimulation
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Why Men Have to be Funnier than Women
Scientists Ask: Why Are Men Funnier than Women? Simply by looking at the highest paid and best known comedians, we should all suspect that men are funnier than women. But even among the population of average men and women, men … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Evolution, Sex Differences
Tagged evolution of human intelligence, Sex Differences
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Perils of “Crisis Thinking”
In a genuine disaster, most people’s brains fail them. Here is a list of ways in which the “crisis thinking” of most people leads them astray: 1. Freezing Though it looks passive from the outside, when we’re paralysed with fear … Continue reading
Drowning in the Shallows of Distraction?
The following article is adapted and re-published from The Dangerous Child blog. Choosing Between Shallow Distraction and Deep Work Deep Work is the ability to focus intensely on a problem for hours at a time, bringing all of your cognitive … Continue reading
Styles of Thought
The human brain did not evolve with any particular end in mind. But we have been lucky to find at this late date in our evolution that our brains are capable of several types of thinking. Using these different approaches … Continue reading
Five Year-Olds Just Don’t Get No Respect
But Perhaps They Should In 1968, George Land conducted a research study to test the creativity of 1,600 children ranging in ages from three-to-five years old who were enrolled in a Head Start program. This was the same creativity test … Continue reading
The Paradox of the Flat Mind
Psychologist Nick Chater says that he has discovered that the human mind is exceedingly shallow — or even flat. This is not what most people want to hear about themselves, and has not been a very popular message on the … Continue reading
Big Five Personality Test
The big five personality traits are the best accepted and most commonly used model of personality in academic psychology. The big five come from the statistical study of responses to personality items. Using a technique called factor analysis researchers can … Continue reading
Adult Neurogenesis, and BDNF
Human brains generate new neurons throughout life. This miracle of lifelong brain regeneration allows lifelong learning, and is driven by complex interacting processes. One of the biological factors that can stimulate the formation of new brain neurons is the neurotrophic … Continue reading
If Not for Miscomprehension There’d be No Comprehension at All
Jordan Peterson has been on a speaking tour of Europe and the Anglosphere for most of the year 2018. On the surface, this grand tour of the western world is about promoting his latest book, Twelve Rules for Life. On … Continue reading
We are Living in an Alzheimer World
We Must Take a More Intelligent Approach to Dementia Emerging evidence suggests that Alzheimer’s-related brain changes may result from a complex interplay among abnormal tau and beta-amyloid proteins and several other factors. It appears that abnormal tau accumulates in specific … Continue reading
Can Social Justice Build a Better Bridge?
Social Justice Warriors Infiltrate Engineering Schools Engineering education has been infiltrated by a “phalanx of social justice warriors” who are steadily corrupting the field, according to a Michigan State University professor. “They have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, … Continue reading
How Can We Explain the Coming European Idiocracy?
This post is a follow-on to yesterday’s article on the recent PNAS finding of a “reverse Flynn Effect” in Norway. IQs appear to be similarly falling in France, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and elsewhere in Europe. Yesterday we looked at … Continue reading
Jordan Peterson vs. the “Mad Dog Atheists”
Conscious Intelligence is Not a Logical Proposition Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has staked out a large territory in the sphere of public discussion, which borders on several distinctly different areas of thought and belief. These multiple “boundary lines” have become … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Jordan Peterson, Knowledge, Machine Intelligence, Science
Tagged logical fallacies
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A Warning About Antidepressants
We Already Knew About This: … most of the perpetrators of mass murder over the past fifteen to twenty years had been taking prescription medicines at the time of their killings, and the drugs they had been taking were usually … Continue reading
