Remember the Sabbath Day
Diamond2019-10-21T07:35:44-04:00What if resting, all by itself, is the real act of holiness? www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/sabbath-day.html
When Will We Solve Mental Illness?
Diamond2019-10-21T07:34:47-04:00Biology was supposed to cure what ails psychiatry. Decades later, millions of people with mental disorders are still waiting. www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/health/mental-health-psychology.html
The Information Diet — Future Crunch
Diamond2019-10-20T05:55:06-04:00If you’re feeling overwhelmed, it’s probably time to start changing the way you eat the internet— Read on futurecrun.ch/articles/the-information-diet
Diamond2019-10-01T08:29:37-04:00
Can You Recover from Dissociative Identity Disorder? https://psychcentral.com/lib/can-you-recover-from-dissociative-identity-disorder/
George Dyson
Diamond2019-09-28T11:18:38-04:00The genius — sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental — of the enterprises now on such a steep ascent is that they have found their way through the looking-glass and emerged as something else. Their models are no longer models. The search engine is no longer a model of human knowledge, it is human knowledge. What began
Blockchain simplified: How it eliminates the middleman
Diamond2019-09-24T18:26:57-04:00Blockchain simplified: How it eliminates the middleman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Tcvxw1cAYHQ/blockchain-tony-saldanha — Read on feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Tcvxw1cAYHQ/blockchain-tony-saldanha
Mindfulnessless Site
Diamond2019-10-11T19:19:46-04:00Another curation of curated posts. Mindfulnessless
The Case Against Reality
Diamond2019-09-21T07:55:24-04:00Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they
Serious but not Literal Perceptions
Diamond2019-09-21T08:17:00-04:00“I take my perceptions seriously, but not literally.” — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman
Mind from Brain Networks
Diamond2019-09-21T08:40:15-04:00The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-mind-emerges-from-the-brains-complex-networks