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Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
The good friday (or marsh chapel) experiment
In essence, Griffiths and his team had simply restaged one of the most famous psychedelic studies of the 1960s: the Good Friday (or Marsh Chapel) experiment. Led by a Harvard graduate student of theology named Walter Pahnke, with support from Timothy Leary, the Good Friday…
Functional And Physical Objects - The Big Picture
Karl popper's three worlds of knowledge
World 1: There is, first, the world that consists of physical bodies: of stones and of stars; of plants and of animals; but also of radiation, and of other forms of physical energy. I (Karl Popper) will call this physical world ‘world 1’. World 2: There is, secondly, the mental…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
The ontology of the observer; languaging is the central problem
For Einstein, scientific theories were seen as the free creations of the human mind which we used to explain the world - but for Maturana, what needs explaining is precisely this "free creation of the human mind", i.e. the way in which the observer brings forth his world. Thus…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Constructive philosophy starts with the human mind
The ideal place to begin that constructive philosophy is to start by examining the nature of the human mind.
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
Short-term memory holds about seven chunks
In his article “Short-Term Memory and Web Usability,” Jakob Nielsen points out that the human mind can’t store much information in short term memory and that this is especially true when they are bombarded with multiple abstract or unusual pieces of data in rapid succession. He…