Thinking with your gut. How intestinal bacteria affects thinking.

Source: The California Academy of Science blog. Read the original post: “Thinking with your Gut” http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/thinking-with-your-gut/ Related Elsewhere: Forbes: “Thinking with your gut. Literally.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/04/19/thinking-with-your-gut-literally/

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A Possible Cycle of Consciousness pt.2

Diagram: “The Cycle of Life” by Toru Sato. Summary of “A (potential) Cycle of Consciousness pt.1″ (summary of an older post in this blog) We begin life without consciousness of the “self” and we move to a point where we re-discover how interconnected (and interdependent) we are to everything else. This awareness may lead to […]

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The roots of language may lie in our hands

“Science News reviews two books that propose a thought-provoking hypothesis about the evolution of language: that our ability to communicate verbally evolved from hand gestures.” Source: Mind Hacks: The roots of language may lie in our hands ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect

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Reading list 10-11-2007

Oxford University Press just reprinted a book called the Oxford Guide to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. This is a dictionary-like, encyclopedia-like book with 1,000 pages delving into philosophy from A-Z. This hardback is surprisingly affordable ($9.99 U.S.D. at Border’s Books and Music). If you’re a geek like me, you may find that the elaborate […]

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Teaching and Learning About Strategic Thinking

Business schools and others interested in management education and development have vigorously debated how best to teach strategy to future leaders. Some experts have questioned whether the topic should be taught at all — or at least whether it should be taught to managers. Often missing from the debate, however, has been any in-depth discussion […]

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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

“The Stuff of Thought” explores the duality of human cognition: the modesty of its construction and the majesty of its constructive power. Pinker weaves this paradox from a series of opposing theories. Philosophical realists, for instance, think perception comes from reality. Idealists think it’s all in our heads. Pinker says it comes from reality but […]

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Systems thinking, logic and psychology

I found this blog posting comparing logic and psychology in terms of their application to the context of education. This blog opens up the opportunity for us to start considering the thought modalities of logic and psychology – their similarities, differences and their different conceptual products. Link “Systems Thinking: Logic vs. Psychology” >>

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Nonduality and either/or thinking

“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought…The sense-experiences are the given subject-matter. But the theory that shall interpret them is manmande…hypothetical, never completely final, subject to question and doubt.” – Albert Einstein. “The world we have made as a result of the […]

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Human built-in empathy ?

The following quotations are from a 2005 article from The New York Times. The article is titled: “A Career Spent Learning How the Mind Emerges From the Brain.” It features a brief conversation with Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, a Psychologist (Cognitive Neurosciece) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While I recommend that you read the […]

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Cognitive Ability Mostly Developed Before Adolescence

“A large study of normal, healthy children finds that during elementary school years, kids steadily improve on tasks of cognitive and motor function; but this progress levels off at around age 11 or 12, just prior to adolescence.” A link between poverty and cognitive development ? “Although the difference was slight, high-income children outperformed their […]

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