Improving the Intellect and Becoming an Everyday Philosopher
In our lifetimes of education, whether in school or on our own, we contend with the desire to improve our intelligence. We have a tendency to begin by remembering facts,…
Doubt and the Genesis of Intellect
One of the biggest components of what we call the human intellect is the recognition that one’s senses can be deceived—that we are not seeing the whole truth, and that…
Grounding Abstractions in Language
Mental imagery requires perception. We cannot think of something if it has never been represented in something perceivable. We think via the track that memories of what an object has…
How Language Guides Thought
Language is a useful tool for allowing us to think through many more subjects and ideas and take our thoughts down many more paths than before. Language has allowed us…
Connotations of Language Is True Psychological Meaning
When we get into arguments, say with our partner, we always are trying to make reasons to support our positions. We argue about the trash, the dishes, how to raise…
Language Is a Social Agreement of a Universal Importance
Experts in linguistics and psychology and sociology have debated whether our language creates our perceptions or if language is logically derived from our instincts and perception. Is the way we…
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…