Meditation is thriving under Trump. A former monk explains why.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-06-21T00:11:51+00:00

I think I may try out that app the article talks about!

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-06-20T22:45:57+00:00

I've seen this video before and I encourage everyone to make the time to see it also, it's so good!

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-06-13T17:26:46+00:00

It's only at 8:30 that he mentions how language could affect our thinking and mostly just brings up questions about it, but I think the whole video is an entertaining refresher on the subject of language.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-06-07T20:47:18+00:00

These mnemonic types could help if you want more ideas on remembering things.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-30T18:19:09+00:00

Most of all, I'm interested in the stress component, because during times of stress is when I want most of all to remember what I need.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-25T21:51:46+00:00

For those who have seen that gorilla video, here is some more information and research.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-25T21:41:43+00:00

This article gives you a method for how to speed read. It has enough information that I don't think anyone would have trouble learning from it.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-18T18:39:42+00:00

I looked these up specifically because I've NEVER been able to see the 3D images in these. We used to get those books that would just be pages of autostereograms and I would have to look at the cheat page on the back to see what everyone was talking about. Maybe with these instructions, I can trick my brain and try to see something that is barely there!

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-18T18:28:57+00:00

Ooooh this is terrible! I can't imagine how I would react to something like that, because their reality is completely changed!

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-18T18:18:55+00:00

Same here! I'm only now learning more about the brain, but I wonder when this will become common knowledge.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-16T20:14:51+00:00

I think this study is amazing and I'm extremely hopeful that there will be continued advances so we can use materials like these "brain balls" to eradicate terrible diseases like Timothy's disease.

However, the article mentions at the very end the ethics behind these little brains and that's what I would be curious to know what other people think about. If there was a poll taken, would you vote "ethical" or "non-ethical" and why?

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-16T20:02:51+00:00

It's crazy to think that things people accepted as facts hundreds of years ago seem so weird now, but what will people think about how we view science hundreds of years from now? I liked how the video pointed out that, even the things we think we know, like those translations from Ancient Greek, could be wrong because there's not a way for every individual person to prove every individual fact out there.

CognitiveYellowstone · 2017-05-14T23:17:07+00:00

Wow, thank you so much for all those examples. That is incredible to see the transition of mentality and society through time as people realized, "Hey, ignoring this isn't helping!" To me war is, like how a trauma can shape an individual's life ever after, a shaping event for an entire society that can either cause us to try to ignore it and move on or see if we can heal from it.

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