Many of us who have advocated scientific examination of religions have experienced forceful push-back by those who are religious. We scientific types don't always understand that reaction; our attitude is often "We study everything. That's what we do. It's better to know than not to know." Folks who are religious…
If you tend to do creative work late at night, this article claims that it's no coincidence that you are a night owl and that you are creative. Hmmmm. I wonder what time of day the testing was done to come up with this data.
A note I jotted to myself sometime in the past. I don’t recall the circumstances, but the question posed feels universal. The spiritualists cringe and argue against any description of self-conscious life as mechanism, that any mere machine is necessarily only an accumulation of parts and processes that can never…
I have a quick tidbit to share- an observation made by a psychology professor I had this quarter. It gives me a refreshed and relaxed perspective on the topic of humanity's many mental foibles. It goes something like this: We use optical illusions to demonstrate how the visual system works,…
In his 2008 book, The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding, philosopher Mark Johnson makes a strong argument that "meaning is grounded in the body" (p. 274). That assertion, however, invites the question: "What is a human "body"? Johnson implores us to not slip into mind/body dualism. He…