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Scientific Knowledge and a New World-View
A collection of quotes from scientists and thinkers, on how to combine a scientific world-view with your daily life. →

Our subconscious knows more, sees more and hears more than we do. About Intuitions, Experiments Below the Awareness Threshold, and Free Will. →

Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas. →

Second writeup on Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself” →

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences. →

Listening states and Stimulus vs. Deprivation When i walk down the street while listening to a podcast or music with my headphones on, i turn the volume of my mp3 player to almost the maximum of 30 out of 30, … →

We live in constant search for patterns. Being able to recognize patterns is a survival instinct. If confronted with a lack of stimulus – lack of patterns – our brain invents a new reality – hallucinations, dreams. Ganzfeld Effect The … →

Hugo Kükelhaus One Station at the Experience field for the development of the senses: Summstein / Humming Stone Hugo Kükelhaus and his Experience field for the development of the senses Hugo Kükelhaus – architect, pedagogue and philosopher – researched and … →

Char Davies creates immersive worlds that use visual and aural stimuli to create transcendental experiences and tries to evoke entirely new experiences of spatiality. →

We experience and interact with the world through a set of culturally and evolutionary taught ideas and beliefs. These worldviews are different from one person to the other – depending on language, religion or culture – and adapt over the … →

What if there was all this underlying complexity but no noise? Systems ready to react, change, adapt and compute – willing to show off their capabilities to self-organize, to create patterns, to make emergence happen – but they lie idle, … →