Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining of its conscious owner, is a greater mystery still. We know that ever since REM evolved in the bird…
“The meaning of life… clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.” Meaning is not something we find — it is something we make, and the puzzle pieces are often the fragments of our shattered hopes and dreams. “There is no love of life without despair of life,”…
This Father’s Day, what dogged thing will you do to be more free?
If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and relational machines, when we can do so much more than ever.
A screen that answers back can teach a child to think, or teach them not to.
Think you just “hate driving”? Discover the hidden mechanics of freeway phobia and how to finally take back the wheel.
The experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II have much to teach about intergenerational trauma and healing.
I couldn’t stand up. The sun was setting over a remote beach, we were out of water, there was no cell service, and walking wasn’t an option. A few hours earlier, none of that seemed possible. Looking back, I realize this experience taught me more about service than any professional training ever did. When I…
One of the many annoying decision theory puzzles is Newcomb’s Paradox. The paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The dread philosopher Robert Nozick published a paper on it in 1969, and it was popularized in Martin Gardner’s 1972 Scientific American column. The paradox involves a game controlled…
Therapy for self criticism can help soften shame, build self-worth, and change harsh inner patterns at a gentle, manageable pace.
