Towards understanding subjective perception For the longest time, humanity has operated under a simple, intuitive assumption: our senses are like video cameras, faithfully recording the objective reality of the outside world, and our brains are the hard drives storing … Continued
Abstract Popular works in the genre of quantum mysticism have argued that the discoveries of modern physics — particularly quantum mechanics and relativity — provide scientific validation for ancient mystical and spiritual worldviews. This claim has been made with particular … Continued
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…”– from John Milton’s Paradise Lost The cognitive landscape of the mind possesses a remarkable capacity to reshape situational contexts. It has … Continued
Part 1: Welcome to Your Inner Social Network Introduction: What’s All the Buzz About? Imagine your brain as a massive, bustling city with tens of billions of citizens. How many exactly? That turns out to be a genuinely open scientific … Continued
The progress of science in the last hundred years has been remarkable. The start of the 20th century saw one of the most important scientific breakthroughs, the advance of the theory of relativity (Einstein 2010; Lorentz, 2012) and the introduction … Continued
I love science in general and especially (cognitive) neuroscience. In particular, it offers objective observations about misconceptions and predominant myths in popular culture, profit-driven industries, and other areas of human existence. Most of these seem to embrace pseudo-scientific notions discovered … Continued