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Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentricNew research compares religious people's beliefs to their estimates of God's beliefs and the beliefs of other people. The research was led by Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Religious people tend to use their own beliefs ...
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Consciousness as existence again by Ted Honderich | World Congress of Philosophy, BostonPerceptual consciousness, basic to all consciousness, escapes characterization in four naturalist theories, including eliminative materialism and neural functionalism. We need a new start, something different. Phenomenologically, what it is for you to be perceptually conscious is for a world ...
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What Do You See? / Science NewsStudies show that the brain guesses the identity of objects before it has finished processing all the sensory information collected by the eyes. And now there is evidence that how you feel may play a part in this guessing game. A number of recent studies show that these two phenomena — the ...
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Eide Neurolearning Blog: Strategic Reasoning = Super Theory of Mind?Does super strategic reasoning sometimes mean super EQ (emotional intelligence) or theory of mind? Yes, but it depends on the game. In this recent fmri-game study, high strategic reasoning (winners) correlated with strong activation of the medial prefrontal cortex, an area important for 'mind ...
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Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships : NPRThe hookup — that meeting and mating ritual that started among high school and college students — is becoming a trend among young people who have entered the workaday world. For the many who are delaying the responsibilities of marriage and child-rearing, hooking up has virtually replaced dating. ...
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Ram Dass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Richard Alpert" redirects here. For the fictional character from Lost, see Richard Alpert (Lost) . Ram Dass Richard Alpert (born April 6 , 1931 ), also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now . He is well known for his ...
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You Know More than You Think: Scientific AmericanHerzog and Hertwig called their more involved process “dialectical bootstrapping.” You can pull yourself up by your own proverbial bootstraps by assuming that you are wrong, providing a second estimate based on a search for new evidence, and then averaging the two estimates. (Interestingly, in ...
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What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)What Makes Us Happy? Case No. 218 How’s this for the good life? You’re rich, and you made the dough yourself. You’re well into your 80s, and have spent hardly a day in the hospital. Your wife had a cancer scare, but she’s recovered and by your side, just as she’s been for more than 60 ...
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The Situation of Decision Making « The SituationistThe Situationist Jonah Lehrer had a nice article, “ The Next Decider ,” in the Boston Globe in early October. Here are some excerpts .
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Mind - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride - NYTimes.comLook around you. On the train platform, at the bus stop, in the car pool lane: these days someone there is probably faking it, maintaining a job routine without having a job to go to.
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