Things are looking pretty grim these days on the societal front. I certainly don’t need to go into the litany of bad news, virus issues, divisiveness, international tension, and on and on. The question is, can we find a way out of this mess? I don’t think we can find our way out of current…
Continue ReadingIn Babette’s Feast—a wonderful old movie—the out-of-town captain sits to dine with a motley set of locals at Babette’s cottage in a poor remote 19th century Danish village. As he begins eating, he is utterly shocked, and looks around at the others in disbelief. None of them realize that the meal in front of them…
Continue ReadingIntelligence and consciousness are often thought of as two sides of the same coin. And in the history of psychology the two have always been linked. It was assumed that intelligence comes out of conscious experience as we think through responses to the environment that are clever enough to help us survive. Evolution also creates…
Continue ReadingOur human minds are evolving all the time. Just over a century ago, we had no real idea that we have a subconscious mind where most of our thinking takes place. We also were very bad at creating hypothetical situations from which to propose alternate future paths. Now we become much more analytical about the…
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