psychology
Topics in psychology presented by Futurism.
The girl from Russia with X-ray vision
In today's story.... We talk about Russian Natalya Nikolayevna Demkina Born in 1987 in the city of Saransk, 600 kilometers from Moscow (Russia), Natalya Nikolayevna Demkina had to undergo an appendix operation at age 10. Since the girl was woken up post-op, she claimed she could see inside people's bodies "like an x-ray".
By Georgenes Medeiros2 years ago in Futurism
Find Out If We Are Living In a Simulated Universe From Personal Experience
What is a simulated universe? Let us take a moment and think about what we call “reality”. The answer seems obvious on face-value. Reality is everything we perceive using our five senses: taste, smell, hearing, touch and sight. But is this really the case?
By Galactic Days2 years ago in Futurism
Post Positivism
Intro To play a game there need be rules. The study of international relations being the search for the rules of state interaction. Positivism in that regard has shaped the questions that have been asked in IR. It created boundaries as to what was acceptable research. Post positivism then is the critique of that narrative and it asks us to reconsider fundamental assumptions about a casual international world. First, we will briefly define positivism and post-positivism highlighting each approaches significance. Following, will be a discussion on how post-positivism and positivism may not be as distinct as imagined. Lest we forget that the curse of modernity is to forget that we are like the rest who have come before us. Indeed, that to regard the newest ideas as fundamentally different from those of the past is the most common human expression of ego.
By Arjuna Fournier2 years ago in Futurism
Forgotten World
Jacob cautiously examines his surroundings as the two slowly descend the stationary, ice covered escalator. Slowly they walk, tightly grasping the railing with each step they took. The floor below was flooded. The morning breeze brought in by the shattered ceiling above, leaving specks of snow melting on the surface of the murky, viridescent water. It was cold. Cold as any winter day. Even under his worn duffel coat he could still feel it. Every breath gushed from his mouth like steam from a train engine.
By Jack Francis2 years ago in Futurism
Manifest Destiny...
We all have hopes and dreams. There are things we want and goals we want to attain. It seems like we all get tripped up by the same thing: “where do I start?” The when can be an issue too. People tend to make excuses; I know I did. “I don’t know where to start”, “I don’t have the time/money”. I have a couple philosophies that I live by: “Every time you leave the house is an opportunity”. An old friend said that to me, and I held on to it. Now it can be interpreted many ways. When we leave our house, who knows who we may meet. Meeting people leads to developing relationships. Those relationships are also connections. Maybe you take it to mean when you leave the house, you should look good. Looking good usually leads to feeling good. When you feel good, you tend to make better choices. Those better choices, in turn lead to better outcomes. You see that positive chain of reactions? Another philosophy I try to live by and have even instilled in my daughters is: “you can’t control how people act, but you CAN control how you REact. Pretty self-explanatory right? People are gonna be who they are. They are gonna do what they do. Sometimes, the things people do don’t align with our goals or feelings. Now, you could get upset, angry or sad about it, right? Or, hear me out, you could accept said actions and change how you interact going forward. It is far less energy consuming to go through life this way. Don’t you agree? Now think about some people in your life whose actions made you feel a “not so good” way. Write down their names. Ok, now write down beside each name, the feeling they gave you. Could you have changed your actions in any of those situations to get a better outcome? Write down what you could have done differently with each person in each situation. These are situations that have already passed, and I wish I had a time machine, but I do not. So, we can't change anything unfortunately. We are gonna go into situations with these people and others with a different mindset and different actions. GO US! We ‘bout to be out here creating better situations for ourselves in order to protect our energy! Another set of words I live by: “some bridges are burned to prevent us from going back to places we don’t need to be”. In other words, we try to hold on to things or people that are no longer good for or beneficial to us. For whatever reason, we can’t walk away on our own, so the universe gives us a little help. Does the thought of burning or burned bridges make you think of any of the people from your list? If not, awesome! If so, why? Do you think you should separate from him/her/them? Something to really think about.
By Latoya Giles 2 years ago in Futurism
The Dark Side of Light Things:
In the late 2060s the Minskerian school was founded upon the revolutionary discovery that fundamental particles are coupled to a constellation of higher dimensional objects called dians. Dians encode and implement the physical laws of lower dimensional matter. The field of cognitive science found hope in deciphering the enigma of consciousness when an interdisciplinary group discovered unusual activity in the diantic particles linked to the nervous system, and knocked emojis out of everyday usage. More sophisticated was Gottfried Leibniz’s Characteristica Universalis, an alphabet for representing ideas; Leibniz postulated reasoning obeyed a grammar. Inspired by Leibniz’s ideas, Professor B. Minsker developed Quantum Metacognition Theory (QMC) which states the human conscious condition emerges from the behavior of the diantic particles coupled to the nervous system. Utilizing QMC, physicists developed a method to construct artificial consciousness out of diantic particles and temporarily inject them into another’s mind.
By Akiva Lipshitz2 years ago in Futurism