Sunday, December 28, 2014

Me, Myself and Us


(Brian R. Little)...begins by addressing “personal constructs” — what he calls “the cognitive goggles you use to understand yourself and others.” There are “core” constructs, he explains, closely tied to one’s sense of self, and “peripheral” constructs, more loosely attached to one’s identity. “To the extent that you have an overly dominant core construct along which much of your construing is organized, you have limited degrees of freedom in navigating your world,” Little notes. “If, however, you have many independent personal constructs or several pairs of goggles through which to anticipate events, when one pair doesn’t work so well or is invalidated, you can switch to a different construct.” Add single-goggle and multi-­goggle to his growing list of types.


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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal - The Birth of Patapsychology



...Patapsychology begins from Murphy's Law, as Finnegan called the First Axiom, adopted from Sean Murphy. This says,and I quote,"The normal does not exist. The average does not exist. We know only a very large but probably finite phalanx of discrete space-time events encountered and endured." In less technical language, the Board of the College of Patapsychology offers one million Irish punds [around $700,000 American] to any "normalist" who can exhibit "a normal sunset, an average Beethoven sonata, an ordinary Playmate of the Month, or any thing or event in space-time that qualifies as normal, average or ordinary."...(cont.)

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Is Consciousness A Product Of The Brain Or Is The Brain The Receiver Of Consciousness?




“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
It’s great to see that in today’s day and age, multiple prominent scientists from all over the world have started to study and examine several different areas that deal with non-physical phenomenon and human consciousness. Truth is they’ve been doing it for decades, but it’s just now starting to receive the recognition it deserves.
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