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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Infinitely many goals explain any behavior
The problem arises because we know that we are intentional systems—our goals are somehow real because we feel like we have goals. Other people might attribute different goals to us. For example, perhaps a Freudian might explain your neurotic behavior in terms of your…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Introspection versus extrospection
These asymmetries originate from a phenomenon well established in the cognitive neurosciences. Any human behavior has many moving parts, roughly divisible into background and foreground elements. Background components involve our evolutionary history, genetic makeup, and fetal…
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…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Trascendental ontologies = first path
[...] the observer assumes that existence takes place independently of what he does, that objects have independent and separate existence, and that these can be known directly through processes of perceiving and reasoning. The criteria for acceptability of the truth of…