Deepening the Understanding of Symbols with Analogy
In human psychology, the ultimate effects of language on our experience tends to be ignored. We cannot study how our minds work or even discuss it without addressing the fundamental…
What Does Creative Thinking Mean?
We all have a hard time not procrastinating when doing errands, but the problem gets even worse on creative projects. In fact, the difference between these two things which we…
Altered Thoughts: The Self-Censorship of Future-Thinking Beings
What makes up our conscious experience? It is not simply the thoughts which are most emotionally loud and relevant to your current situation. There are other, more mysterious, criteria which…
The Spiritual Self: Packaging Subjective Experience for Use
How does our ability to think abstractly and be motivated by ideal goals create an experience with altered values of perceptions? This layering on top of perception can affect the…
Secondary Consciousness Begins with the Idea of the Future
If you are like me, you have wondered what mysterious steps were taken for our brain to develop from a simple, instinctual one to one of human intelligence. The answer…
Truth Is a Function of Familiarity
Humans have sought something called “truth” for millennia. But, especially recently, we are beginning to take note of some of the challenges which steer us down the wrong path. Awareness…
Focused Attention in High-Salience Situations
A previous article was concerned with how the brain shifts to a broadened attention when not much is going on in our environment. We can also look at how the…
Understanding Thoughts: Listening to the Subtle Actions and Perceptions
As with many of the concepts in psychology and philosophy of mind, the term “thought” is extremely vague. This vagueness has to be one of the main hurdles for much…
The Conscious Is the Evidence of Unconscious
Our understanding of our own consciousness lies largely in analyzing the experiences after they happen. We see evidence of the unconscious, moment by moment, determining our conscious state.
Thinking: A Fantasy of Emotion and Prediction
We talk stimulus and response, but most of our lives are spent without anything terribly stimulating going on. In these moments, our thoughts are the salient stimuli; ideas are the new perceptions. This opens up a whole new dynamic experience for psychology to talk about.