Tagged “brain”

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.