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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Although our stream of consciousness, by its very nature, exists only in the present, its directions are determined a great deal by the past. Our stream of consciousness depends upon…
As discussed before, long-term memory sets down pathways by strengthening some connections and inhibiting others. We create many concepts by the bundling of active neural tracts. We have a somewhat…