Posted in Psychology, Philosophy, Miscellany, Life Itself on Oct 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sam Harris recently gave a lecture at an “atheist” conference where he shocked his audience by telling them their use of the label “atheist” is a huge mistake — “a mistake of some consequence,” to be exact.
To understand the magnitude of his “seditious proposal,” you have to know that Harris is considered one of the […]
Posted in Psychology, Miscellany on Aug 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I happened across the winners of the top 10 best optical illusions today…this one of a pyramid is really cool!
Posted in Psychology, Books Reviews on Apr 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Psychology is a relatively young science, if you consider it remained the province of philosophers until the late nineteenth century. Even today, despite a handful of notable exceptions, it lacks clear, unifying principles. Thankfully, we survived Freud’s subversion of the conscious mind, Skinner’s behaviorism and the social theorists to emerge in the era of the […]
Posted in Psychology, Books Reviews on Mar 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I can’t recommend the book Blink enough. (I should mention that my friend, Brian Schwartz, recommended it to me.) I actually listened to it on CD, and I highly recommend that experience, as well.
Blink is about–well, Mr. Gladwell, says it best:
It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a […]