Mayer Spivack
East Coast USA
creativity consulting to individuals and industry, now writing about: creativity, violence prevention, psychology of violent drivers, environmental psychology, theory of mind, cognition, brain, sculpture, invention, associative / syncretic learning and teaching strategies, sculpture studio in Salem MA., photographic art
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innovation and creativity coaching, photographic art, sculpture, psychodynamic theory, cognitive theory, syncretic theoryMayer's Twines
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Metzinger: introduction to "The Ego Tunnel"Metzinger: introduction to "The Ego Tunnel" Thomas Metzinger is one of my heroes, a philosopher and polymath who has a deep understanding also of neurobiology and cognitive psychology and neuroscience. His model of the mind is one that I find most sane and accessible. I strongly recommend ...
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Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain - life - 29 June 2009 - New ScientistHAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational ...
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Science/AAAS | Science Magazine: Sign InSubscribe/Join AAAS or Buy Access to This Article to View Full Text. The content you requested requires a AAAS member subscription to this site or Science Pay per Article purchase. If you already have a user name and password, please sign in below. A Key Role for Similarity in Vicarious Reward ...
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The Triune BrainThe Triune Brain Paul MacLean, the former director of the Laboratory of the Brain and Behavior at the United StatesNational Institute of Mental Health, developed a model of the brain based on its evolutionary development. It is referred to as the "triune brain theory" because MacLean suggests ...
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Why Thought Suppression is Counter-Productive « PsyBlogWhy Thought Suppression is Counter-Productive · How pushing a thought out of consciousness can bring it back with a vengeance. It sometimes feels like our minds are not on the same team as us. I want to go to sleep, but it wants to keep me awake rerunning events from my childhood. I want ...
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Neural correlates of vicarious reward.Thanks for finding and posting this before I read it myself. An important paper for my current work. For an odd sort of surprise related to this article please look at the photograph in my profile, on linked-in, facebook, Twine, and notice the superficial similarity in our faces and facial ...Mayer Spivack added 6 months ago
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IDasia.org | Industrial Design Asia » Blog Archive » Ribbon StairThis works as sculpture but it is lethal as a staircase. The first obligation of Industrial designers and architects is to make their work WORK for users, to function while maintaining safety. Aesthetics and art follow somewhere down the line. Would you walk down these stair if you were a ...Mayer Spivack added 6 months ago
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IDasia.org | Industrial Design Asia » Blog Archive » Ribbon StairThis works as sculpture but it is lethal as a staircase. The first obligation of Industrial designers and architects is to make their work WORK for users, to function while maintaining safety. Aesthetics and art follow somewhere down the line. Would you walk down these stair if you were a ...Mayer Spivack added 6 months ago
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IDasia.org | Industrial Design Asia » Blog Archive » Ribbon StairThis works as sculpture but it is lethal as a staircase. The first obligation of Industrial designers and architects is to make their work WORK for users, to function while maintaining safety. Aesthetics and art follow somewhere down the line. Would you walk down these stair if you were a ...Mayer Spivack added 6 months ago
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Random Thoughts: Dancing parrotsThis comes as no surprise to people who live with African Gray parrots like our own. One of our birds (male) will duet with female human singers and with jazz, even with live jazz, picking up the beat and often beginning his own vocal part with a harmony to the melody. He is usually on key and ...Mayer Spivack added 6 months ago