Tagged “brain”

link from mum

this is cool. would like to make a converter to generate these from color images

I think this is the source of the "men at 25 at mature as women at 18" thing.

any field with “behavioral” in its name is not real

50s radio voice:

When bad things happen, does your mind suddenly go blank?
Do you feel tired?
And just end up not responding?
Your brain might use ‘the freeze response’ in the face of stress.

learned from Hidden Brain - Slow Down

made worse by the effects of weathering on the plastic

In 2014, I did on average 200-250ug of acid once a week(ish) for ten months, from January to October, or approximately 40 times.

describe the hallway you too to get into this room (or some aspect of the previous room). People remember details differently

this seems like something you do not want

the act of letting go of ideas (putting them into notes) lets them become effective to us

this is the kind of needlessly elaborate but awesome backup I can get into

The results demonstrate a statistically significant depletion of CGM volume in 24 COVID-19 infected patients.

These seems to underplay the fact that it was reduced in all of them.

The feeling of being able to control something, to offset the lack of control in the activity or outcome.

Stronger reading comprehension, and a sense of tactile information recall. The study was for scheduling, so makes sense that the spatial sense comes into it for day/month planning.

Paired with Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing (on HN at the same time).

Probably yes

Coming back as someone different after a traumatic brain injury, and overcoming symptoms.

Will ectoplasmic green skies be alarming enough to make people take climate more seriously? Undecided.
Some interesting overviews on how eyes work though.

so keep a dream journal!

When your commonplace book is a public database. The strategy of doing all your writing in public and as you learn about things, building up a knowledge database over time.

Me either. Logging out of twitter has helped reduce the effect.

And the post itself

Perfectionism is more often about being afraid to be bad at things

Interesting area, and the discussion on whether it matters where the knowledge is stored.

brains are weird. This quote in particular fascinated me:

That seems exciting. I’ve long wondered if in 50 years terms like “emotion” or “reason” will be obsolete. Some future genius will have come up with an integrative paradigm that more accurately captures who we are and how we think.

How different you and your brain behave in times of extreme emotion. Makes people bad at empathising with others ("I would never do that.."), and bad at predicting or understanding their own behaviour.