Tag: Science

  • Hocus Pocus

    A Magical formula used in conjuring, 1630s, earlier Hocas Pocas, common name of a magician or juggler (1620s); a sham-Latin invocation used by jugglers, perhaps based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum “This is my body.” The first to make this speculation on its origin apparently was…

  • Rp The role of mind in neuroscience

    After failing to find anatomical or functional correlates of a variety of psychiatric conditions, Dr. Sarah Durston (neuroscientist and Professor of … The role of mind in neuroscience —— If you are not as concerned about the philosophical side and want to hear just about the biological side of mental disorder and diagnosis from the…

  • Science is not in opposition to ignorance

    Only by a certain orientation upon knowledge does oppositional categories have significant affect. I was reading a paper, part of the paper anyways, where the author talks about John Locke saying his work not involved with science. Just got me thinking. Georg Hegel, and many more philosophers for sure we’re trying to find some sort…

  • Unexpected synchronous object semantics

    Be Your Own Rock Everyday Listen …… Sometimes I feel that I am being drawn forward. And other times I am just making my Way, doing what I do because that’s what I’m doing. Presently I am going through a phase of the latter. I am not sure that I ever construct meaning intentionally. I…

  • Zero is New Olds

    A second part of reporting my thoughts upon reading “Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea” by C. Seidel. Recall that my work centers upon orientation upon objects as the significant philosophical issue of our time. The excerpt pictures above gives a manner by which to apprehend the coupling of history and idea that informs…

  • Cognition and Cosmology

    The main and largely unrecognized model for the human mental being is the Cognitive Model. In short, it says there is a Situation, we have thoughts about it, These thoughts are automatically associated with particular emotional responses, and we act or behave. This behavior is an interaction with the world, and this interaction is the…

  • Reposting How Psychedelics Could Help Cure Various Mental-Health Disorders | by Viktor Marchev

    It’s amazing how psychedelics — from being initially known as the ‘party drugs’ and excessively being connected to the ‘underground’—are now seen as … How Psychedelics Could Help Cure Various Mental-Health Disorders | by Viktor Marchev | ILLUMINATION | May, 2021 —- I am having a like/dislike relationship with the psychedelic frontier of treating mental…

  • Repost: Mark Solms’ theory of consciousness

    I recently finished Mark Solms’ new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. There were a few surprises in the book, and it… Mark Solms’ theory of consciousness —- I am posting this mostly because anything that has to do with proposals about consciousness I am interested in and I feel…

  • Is mental health the same as physical health?

    xIs it? That is to ask: Should mental health, its manifestations and issues, be considered the same way as we consider a physical body, which is to say, that all mental issues must reduce to physical fact ? If we can rely upon popular scientific knowledge then the answer is resounding yes! If this is…

  • Toward a Unified Philosophy of Counseling: Object Orientation

    In case you missed it. https://epublications.regis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=cftsr Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review Volume 3 Issue 1 Article 4 An Essay Concerning the Possibility of a Unifified Theory of Counseling Lance Kair Regis University, Department of Counseling, Division of Counseling and Family Therapy, Rueckert- Hartman College of Health Professions, lkair@regis.edu Follow this and additional works at:…