psychology
Topics in psychology presented by Futurism.
nothingness
Nothingness. Have you ever passed through all of your senses and fallen into the true depth of nothingness? We think that because we look, something is there. The world is filled with so much... stuff. Therefore, it must all be real. We think because we hear it that it makes it real. Sound only exists because we experience it. This could go for all the senses.
By Mighty Tauro4 years ago in Futurism
"Clear your mind must be if the villains you want to see..."
It is hardly necessary to convince someone that our civilization is in the stage of a powerful technological breakthrough (about the dangers, challenges, and ways of our influence on it, I wrote in the previous article “To be or to be not, that the question is”, of which this article is a kind of continuation). But this breakthrough, besides the evident advantages and achievements, bears obvious (sometimes terrifying) risks for the whole of mankind.
By Smаrtus Yоdus4 years ago in Futurism
Working with hypnosis to make it yours
It isn’t enough for you to read hypnosis books and collect information on influence in piles all around you. I want you to think about what is being presented by many of us, interact with it by talking about it with other like-minded people, and when it works, make it yours. This post is about conditioning yourself with experiences of mastery. Many of us share nuggets of wisdom in our blogs and books that took us years to understand. The value gained from learning hypnosis as an art doesn't happen unless you work it until it becomes part of you.
By Joseph Crown4 years ago in Futurism
Can Cognition Be Explained by Folk Psychology?
Ever since perception was thought to be regulated by animal spirits, neuroscientists and philosophers have come a long way when discovering cognition. However, there has been a great deal of debate over who should continue the search for answers. Many of the current methods used to explain this phenomenon have been grounded in folk psychology (FP)—which is, briefly, the set of common sense concepts that we use to predict and explain behavior and which many believe fails to offer the reliable explanations that are required for this largely unknown mind to brain relationship. This work identifies the challenges to neuroscientific attempts to understand the mind, including the opinions from Churchland, Slors, Anderson, and Hamilton, each offering their own views on current methods and how research should be continued by neuroscience. As well, we will discuss what challenges may arise and how neuroscientists must work to overcome them.
By Nicole Addison5 years ago in Futurism
History of Psychology - The Greek Philosophers
The history of psychology is a long and arduous one that is filled with constant shifts in ideology, approach, and importance. The field of psychology today incorporates various aspects of the history of psychology into its wide array of subfields, however, the importance of this history can sometimes be “lost in translation” so to speak. Even so, this blog article will be a short review of the history of psychology and its major milestones (and when I say short, I mean comparatively since the history of psychology is much too large to include all of it in a blog).
By Cobe Wilson5 years ago in Futurism
Psychological Approaches: Psychodynamic
When most people think of psychology, they think of psychotherapy. They picture themselves sitting on the couch, talking to a therapist about their problems, their childhood memories and experiences, their dreams, etc. This view, or approach, is but one of many in the broader field of psychology. This approach is often called the psychodynamic approach to psychology.
By Cobe Wilson5 years ago in Futurism
Equations of Meaning: the Architecture of Systems of Belief
What is a belief? A belief is that which we consider to be the truth. That which we consider true constitutes a belief in something. That which we do not believe, we consider to be false. We hence believe that the proposition “the grass is purple” to be true, because the world of our experience, where the grass is always green, tells us otherwise. Connected to the belief that the ‘grass is green’ are three words, ‘is’ which roughly translates as ‘to be’, ‘green which corresponds to a colour in the world of human sensory input identifiable by association with the third word ‘grass’, which indicates a common species of plant life present on our planet. The same may be said of propositions such as: “the sky is blue,” we say that it is true, because we all assent to it; and if our language is different, we translate and infer; we may ask: “well, what colour is the sky (in your language)?” They may reply: “It is x.” Then we say: “well that is your word for blue.” Meaning always implies an equation. If one thing means something, this process is equivalent to something being equal to something else. I was once told, somewhat disingenuously I think, that we determine what a thing is in relation to those things that it isn’t; this isn’t at all how we do it. What we do is we equate the thing in itself simultaneously to our visual impression of it, and also to a sound that we make with our mouths. Hence we can recognise an image of an apple, and associate with a real apple, because it looks the same as one (or at least similar to it), and we associate this with a sound, because we’ve heard other people do the same thing, we then use this sound (or the written word) to indicate that we mean an ‘apple’ when talking about one.
By Sam Cottle5 years ago in Futurism
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Nothing like being on a tight schedule. Two weeks ago, my husband, my friend and I had an agenda. Drive from Roswell to Arabella to drop off some music equipment, then on to Ruidoso by 1 PM to make sure we were in cell range for an important phone call. No problem. It’s 11:30 AM. Only an hour and a half to Ruidoso with just enough wiggle room for the detour to Arabella. Having made the trip countless times, we were confident that there wouldn’t be any problem.
By Erin Montgomery6 years ago in Futurism