Betterhumans. A very aspirational word for which the human species has progressed and struggled through several civilizations. An appropriate question would now be : Are we better humans ? . "Yes" would be the answer any person from the "Developed world" shall give upto a probability of 90 %. Such a ...

Episode 5. Delving into the most complex of our organs, we find out everything from why we get drunk (it isn’t the alcohol as such, it's all the fatty acids in our brain), and how the various segments control our different functions from brief recall, long term memory, learned behaviour, personality/consciousness, memory and developing ...

David Chalmers, one of the world's foremost authorities on consciousness is a guest on this Saturday's Bloggingheads.tv episodeI thought it might be as interesting to others as it was to me. :)

Personality Traits explained http://www.abnormalpsy.orgChristopher Shawwizkid007@rogers.com  There are a couple of things that influence personality. I guess we have to break down the various aspects of personality before you can move forth. Becoming Introverted/extrovertedI believe to nail down the cause of how somebody becomes ...

Why do placebos work? http://www.abnormalpsy.org Christopher Shaw wizkid007@rogers.com This is a question that has plagued scientists for some time now. Well let’s break this down. It’s obviously neurological. And the psychology of feeling good about something comes into play. I personally believe there are two kinds of stimuli. Positive which ...

http://www.abnormalpsy.org Christopher Shaw wizkid007@rogers.com   Dreams as a natural defence / Unconscious wish fulfillment In light of the mental scars that society brings forth, the brain has a natural defence, it try’s to clear out the garbage of every day life to bring things back to an equilibrium state. That is why sleep is ...

Since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Now science suggests that our emotions are what make thought possible....

Where does technology end and our idea of God begin? Human beings evolved to perceive a distinction between 'ourselves' and our 'technology'. Increasingly though, our technological achievements are becoming extensions of our bodies, our identities and our minds, forcing the realm of the human out and into the world of synthetic form. The less ...

Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran believes that ''other awareness'' may have evolved first and then, counterintutively, the same ability was exploited to model ones own mind--what one calls self awareness. He also suggests that a specific system of neur...

In making decisions, the conscious brain is only playing catch-up to what the unconscious brain was already doing, Benjamin Libet, a physiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has found from his research. Daniel C. Dennett, a phi...