Tagged with Cognitive Science

This music brings Hermetic and Buddhist insights into a contemporary setting where they interact in a relevant way with our media-saturated culture, transforming ambient urban noise into a complex meditation. (more)

Society benefits from intellectual work. If chemicals make that work more efficient, insightful, and creative, isn't it a professional duty for intellectuals to work as well as they can by using chemical cognitive enhancers? (more)

Darwin attributes the development of the prefrontal cortex to the nurturing of love and altruism. This particular neural grouping constitutes the high point of evolution to date. Somewhere along the way, however, nurturing was compromised. Today, nurturing, as needed by our species and the Earth, has all but disappeared.  (more)

We can only speculate to what extent prehistoric art works were made for practical, or sheerly aesthetic means. Did we need art way back then for any different reason than we do now?  Are there unique clues in prehistoric art for the ultimate reasons why humans may have always needed art? (more)

The concept of truth-seeking has long been a cornerstone of individualism. But in order to be effective as individuals, we have to make sure that our perception of reality actually contains a significant amount of what we call "truth." So how can we ever be certain that we possess the actual truth? Is human objectivity even possible in reality? (more)

Many creative tasks require an expansive associative net, a "flat associative hierarchy." Creative people need to make far-reaching connections among all sorts of seemingly unrelated ideas. The heightened ability to make novel associations is the hallmark of creative thinkers, who are always searching for epiphanies. This is why Marijuana is perhaps one of the best cognitive tools for creativity.

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