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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Quello che non torna merita rispetto
La volta che per colpa di una riunione del Patto di Sindacato di RCS MediaGroup (che poi non si tenne!) Maurizio Romiti mi costrinse a stare a Milano facendomi perdere la finale di Champions League del Milan a Manchester, me la ricordo come un giorno di rivolta interiore. Avevo…
L'inventario dei primi quarant'anni
Ho rovistato tra i miei abiti, li ho selezionati in base al cuore e in base alla logica. Ho passato al setaccio tutto quello che possedevo, per inventariarlo dopo tanti anni, per capire cosa mi portavo dietro, quale fosse l’eredità dei miei primi quarant’anni, e cosa avrei…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Recalling an LSD trip fifteen years later
I began to wonder if I would ever return to reality, but the voice in the back of my head reminded me again, “LSD is a drug… it will wear off.” The incredible thing about these experiences is that even now, fifteen years later, I can still recall them vividly as if they had…
Machines remember jokes but don't get them
This science fiction example captures one of the salient differences between human and machine intelligence. Humans get jokes within milliseconds but might not remember them for seven years. Data remembers the joke for seven years, but it also takes him that long to get it…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Crystallized and fluid intelligence
Like Mom’s stew, human intelligence has two essential components, both fundamentally linked to our evolutionary need to survive. The first is the ability to record information. This is sometimes called “crystallized intelligence.” It involves the various memory systems of the…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Svegliarsi senza memoria per reinventarsi
Caro Clone, cosa spinge le persone a fare quello che fanno? Ci svegliamo la mattina, ci ricordiamo chi siamo e dove siamo e a volte ci dimentichiamo il giorno della settimana, oppure la stagione, e dobbiamo fare uno sforzo di memoria, ma prima o poi ci tornano in mente. A volte…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Limitation of co-occurrence methods; possibility of using automatic reasoning techniques
How much semantic information about terms is recoverable from co-occurrence information alone, and how much, instead, can only be recovered by agents possessing human perceptual apparatus, physical or causal interaction with the subject domain, memory , emotions, human…
Generalization Of Word Meanings During Infant Sleep : Nature Communications : Nature Publishing Group
Sleep helps babies learn new generic words and consolidate their meanings
Sleep consolidates memory and promotes generalization in adults, but it is still unknown to what extent the rapidly growing infant memory benefits from sleep. Here we show that during sleep the infant brain reorganizes recent memories and creates semantic knowledge from…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Religious and moral feelings are (forgotten) associations of simpler emotions
Association.—All strong feelings are associated with a variety of allied sentiments and emotions. They stir up the memory at the same time. When we are under their influence we are reminded of similar states and we feel a renewal of them within us. Thus are formed habitual…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
La stupidità degli innamoramenti
Il problema è che lui ormai conosce fin troppo bene la stupidità degli innamoramenti: l’entusiasmo indiscriminato per la novità, l’amplificazione fuori misura di differenze minuscole, l’attribuzione di qualità non del tutto verificate, l’interpretazione esageratamente generosa…
Affacciarsi sull'imperfetta meraviglia
Milena Migliari guarda il cielo, pensa che le piacerebbe vedere almeno un aliante volteggiare lassù. Ma non ce n’è nemmeno uno, per quanto lei si giri a naso all’aria in ogni direzione. Quanto è recuperabile la sua vita di prima di ieri? Lei e Viviane potrebbero mai riuscire a…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
La scoperta gioiosa dell'irragionevolezza
Le torna in mente l’entusiasmo con cui aveva seguito nei primi anni la nascita dei pezzi di Alberto, l’evolversi delle vaghe intuizioni iniziali in linee melodiche definite che sembrava fossero sempre state nell’aria. Le torna in mente lo stupore per il processo misterioso…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Memories that refer to their own causes
The most biologically basic intentional phenomena, including perceptual experiences, intentions to do something, and memories, have a peculiar logical feature in their conditions of satisfaction. It is part of the conditions of satisfaction of, for example, my memory that I…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Live out of imagination, not memory
Because I am self-aware, because I have imagination and conscience, I can examine my deepest values. I can realize that the script I’m living is not in harmony with those values, that my life is not the product of my own proactive design, but the result of the first creation I…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Serial sessions unfold deeper layers
By the second or third trip, however, specific themes were beginning to stand out and evolve—and the serial approach began to make self-evident sense. I had marked a passage from Realms of the Human Unconscious where Grof discusses this development of material from one session…
The order in which the matrices appear
In his experience of hands-on LSD psychotherapy, Grof said, if an individual’s memories of pleasure or pain were traced back through his or her life, they would betray increasingly clear features of their origin in the perinatal realm. Consciously reexperiencing the core…
Nothing lived up to the promise of childhood
What happened next had me staring incredulously! First one then another of the mallards or moorhens seemed to wake up and start, jerkily at first, to move about, until they were all doing something. Around they went, pecking and waddling, the swimming moorhens making that…
Resistance to feeling on acid
Hurriedly I looked for one of our son . . . and, yes, that one worked. Taken when he had lost his front tooth, it went straight to my heart. I turned the pages of the album, and all the photos of him had the same sparkling, happy quality . . . though they didn’t suck me into…
Learning to read the story of my own life
It was during this time of abstention from acid that I first saw the drug was having an ongoing effect. Had I not been living such a placid and outwardly uneventful life, I doubt that I would have noticed, but the personal, biographical material, which I believed those last…
A childhood illness as root trauma
The CD played out, so it must have been the best part of an hour—then abruptly several disparate pieces of information jigsawed themselves together. Suddenly I knew that I had been very seriously ill as a young child when I was living at Windle Hey. Perhaps it was bronchitis…
Perinatal means every shock to the body
Belatedly, I saw the full extent of what Grof had meant by “perinatal” experience: not just what I, and I suspect many other people who read his early books, tend to reduce exclusively to the birth trauma, but all the other shocks inflicted upon and recorded by the physical…
Losing all personal identity
As the minutes went by, I found that I was losing any personal sense of identity. At first I could remember bits and pieces about my life, but it was getting more and more difficult to join them up into any coherent whole
Nothing had been lost
I was leaving Judges Walk by a different route from the way I had come, down a tiny cul-de-sac. If you go that way the first thing you pass is a tall old red-brick wall, over the top of which you can glimpse some trees. At its foot were clumps of nettles, limp and dusty with…
Eleusis and Plato's Forms
Did Eleusis birth the basic concepts of Western and Near Eastern metaphysics—the “Forms,” the “Ideas,” the “Archetypes”? The concept of another world, prior to, more pristine than this, from which we journey forth and to which we return in a richer, more highly evolved form?…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Animal memory as learned response
In contrast, most, if not all, animal memory is simply a form of learned response. Your dog remembers you in that it recognises you as its pack leader, but it is very unlikely that it fondly recalls past walks, as you do. That difference is a core part of what enables you to…
Transient epileptic amnesia
Another example is found in people suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy, in an experience called transient epileptic amnesia.
No pearl at the heart of self
There are, however, two highly significant features of the self that scientific knowledge pulls into focus. Firstly it underlines very strongly the fact that there is no pearl at the heart of self. The apparent unity of self is the result of a highly organised play of parts…
Locke's memory criterion of personal identity
Similar thoughts informed one of the first modern advocates of psychological continuity as the key to personal identity, the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke. Such was the emphasis he placed on memory that he has been widely attributed with holding a ‘memory…
Locke and Reid aim at the wrong target
Although Reid’s objection hits the bullseye, in an important respect both he and Locke are looking at the wrong target.
Memory is an active process
We now know that memory works very differently. Each time a memory is recalled, it is changed in some way. Memories are not passive chunks of information. Rather, memory is an active process, the contents of which are forever in flux.
Every recollection reconstructs the memory
‘Every time we recall an event, we must reconstruct the memory, and with every recollection the memory may be changed … Truth and reality, when seen through the filter of our memories, are not objective facts but subjective, interpretive realities.’
Selective memory constructs the self
We all ignore and do not commit to memory facts and events that conflict with the way we see ourselves and the world. We remember selectively, usually without conscious effort or desire to do so. And yet because we believe memory records facts, objectively, we fail to see that…
Psychological continuity as overlapping connections
modern advocates of psychological continuity as the basis for personal identity over time see memory as just one of a number of psychological connections over time that contribute to this continuity, and they see this continuity in terms of overlapping connections, not rigid…
H.M. and the varieties of memory
H.M.’s loss was an immeasurable gain to the science of memory. Experiments conducted by Milner showed that although H.M. formed no new memories, he could learn new tasks. This showed that episodic memory – recollection of facts and events – worked quite differently from…
Knowing one's traits without personal memories
What seems clear is that H.M. did retain some sense of self. This is certainly the view Philip J. Hilts formed, having spent a long time with H.M. while writing his book Memory’s Ghost. This residual sense of self was a ‘sharply realistic’ idea of the kind of person H.M. was…
A man does not consist of memory alone
If there is a continuity of key character traits, there will be some, albeit a radically diminished, continuity of the self too. ‘A man does not consist of memory alone,’ wrote the psychologist A.R. Luria, ‘he has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral feeling – matters of which…
Personality survives failing memory
What gives this view some credence is the extent to which personality remains, even as memory and other cognitive capacities fail. ‘One of the things with the residents here that you see time and time again is that they behave in character,’ says Jackie.
I am my baggage
it seems to me that a consistent set of personality traits is not a person. Janet’s metaphors seem to get it exactly wrong. I am my baggage. I am the layers that have grown on the onion, not the tiny core at the middle. We are precisely all the things we’ve accrued, the…
Dissociation as a coping mechanism
According to Smith, and many other DID experts, the vast majority of cases begin with severe childhood abuse. Dissociation is essentially a coping mechanism for tolerating the intolerable. In a strange way it is entirely rational. If you have the thought ‘this can’t be…
Recovered memories or confabulation?
There are, however, many who doubt DID really exists. The most serious worry concerns the way in which therapists bring alters to the surface. The deep philosophical question here is most evident when you consider the memories of childhood trauma that therapists elicit: how…
State-dependent memory
In support of this claim, Carter cites a very powerful weapon: empirical evidence. One of her biggest guns is state-dependent memory. ‘In different mind-states one does not have access to the same bag of memories, and that has been demonstrated in a lot of quite clever studies…
Parfit: psychological connectedness and continuity
What makes for a single person over time is therefore, in the formulation of contemporary philosopher Derek Parfit, psychological connectedness and continuity. That is why a person remains the same person, even when their bodies radically change. That is why we doubt whether…
Rediscovering one's own beliefs
When I sat down to write it, my own beliefs were not held on file, permanently ready for inspection. I often don’t remember my view about something: it is as though I have to think about the subject again in order to find out what I believe.
No memory of a previous life
Revealingly, however, there is an absence of any semblance of a personal relationship between Akong II and Akong I. Most obviously, Akong says of his previous life, ‘I don’t remember anything.’
The plural of anecdote is not data
Here we move from conceptual coherence to empirical evidence, and despite the numerous books and testimonies Akong and Ringu cite, as the old saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data. If someone had really remembered a detail from a past life which could be verified and…
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…
Three psychological needs behind dashboard design
Any product that has an information dashboard as one of its key offerings should keep the psychological needs of its end users in mind. Users like being in control, they have a limited short-term memory, and they love things that are simple. These three factors should form the…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
L'infatuazione per un regista tormentato
Si chiede se quella che ha avuto per lui non sia stata in realtà un’infatuazione banale, la giovane scenografa che si innamora del regista talentuoso e tormentato, abbastanza vecchio da essere suo padre, un vampiro che si nutre dell’ammirazione e della dipendenza sprovveduta…