Psychology

God Lives In Our Head!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke recently confirmed something I’d been guessing for quite some time – that religion is all in our head.
In their study they took religious and non-religious people alike and asked them to think about religious topics while hooked up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans.   [...]

Can You Trust Your Memory?

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I just learned about some recent advances in scientific studies related to memory.  Apparently memory does not work how I always thought it did.  I had learned, from reading slightly dated neuroscience texts, that memories were “burned” into the brain, similar to how data is burned to a CD or DVD.  They were immutable, and [...]

Problems Of Humanity – A Quick Outline

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The other day I mentioned I wrote down a list of problems I see facing mankind, and our future.   I went to write on them, but then my entry soon spanned many pages yet I had barely scratched the surface.  So today I’ll just write out my outline, and keep the blurbs really really short.  [...]

The Problems Of Humanity

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Over the past few months I’ve been reading a lot of history.  Also, over the past few years I’ve studied a lot of psychology, philosophy, biology, sociology, anthropology, and more.  After reading all this material, I decided it’d be good to sit down and just write all the problems I see plaguing mankind.  By problem, [...]

Space And Geometry – Part 1

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Just the other day I was out with my friend Greg, and he was telling me I should write down some of my ideas toward space and time.  After thinking about it for a while, I decided to do so.  This is a subject I’ve been very passionate about for many many years, but rarely [...]