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Recent research discovered a startling facet of life—brief periods during which consciousness is absent while the body carries on its well-rehearsed duties: driving, doing the dishes, or reading a long and uninspiring office memo. To an observer, everything looks normal while the subject is, in fact, zoned out. During these episodes of mind blankin
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Psychology
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Neuroscience
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manifest as social withdrawal, an inability to feel pleasure, or a lack of motivation.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Insane’ probably means to have an innate mental problem, something that calls for professional treatment, while ‘lunatic’ means to have your sanity temporarily seized by the luna, which is ‘moon’ in Latin. In nineteenth-century England, if you were a certified lunatic and you committed a crime, the severity of the crime would be reduced a notch. Th
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Sa fascination pour ce fragment de cerveau me paraissait, en la circonstance, sacrément audacieuse. Jusqu’à ce que je découvre qu’un certain Thomas Harvey, pathologiste chargé de déterminer les causes de la mort d’Albert Einstein survenue le 18 avril 1955, avait, une fois son travail achevé, quitté l’institut dans lequel il travaillait, emportant a
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