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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Seeing What We Can't See

The word we focused on was scotoma, a term from ophthalmology that means a patch of blindness in the field of sight. Every human eye has one. It is the point where the optic nerve exits the retina and no image can form. We do not see the hole because the brain fills it in. Ralph Levinson, a retired ophthalmologist and our guest that week, called this "a profound statement on life and cognition."
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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Love at First Sight, or Love at First Smell?

Love is a subjective emotion influenced by internal physiological signals and evolutionary mechanisms, potentially shaped by chemical cues like pheromones and MHC-dependent body odor.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago
Philosophy

Think like a crow, choose like a crab: The animals inside our minds

Consciousness denotes lived subjective experience involving creativity, subjective feeling, and evaluative "weighing up" that balances pleasure and pain across animals.
fromPsychology Today
5 months ago
Mindfulness

Higher-Order Thinking Skills Don't Define Us

Researching consciousness reveals the subjective nature of human experience, and scientists often overlook this by focusing too much on higher-order thinking.
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fromApaonline
4 months ago

Phenomenal Accuracy and Vivid Memory

The definition of 'objective' versus 'subjective' can help categorize experiences based on their ability to represent the physical world accurately or inaccurately.
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