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I’ve been thinking about a weird feeling I experienced while growing up, and I wonder if anyone else in the community experienced it; feeling like you’re remembering something you’ve already known when you’re learning something new. Like, oh yeah, that makes so much sense I feel
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He texted my little brother this morning to say we need to talk about hospice, then proceeded to make himself scarce the rest of the day. Little brother panicked, started calling around trying to figure out what’s going on. She’s in a hospital somewhere, she’s been there
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Like everything else in the universe, the stuff we eat is made of atoms. An atom is like a little solar system, with a nucleus at its center. Electrons orbit the nucleus like planets circling a sun. (Although actually, according to quantum mechanics, you can’t know exactly where an
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the kinds of ripples that emanated from Anna's brain as one might test a body of water to see if it had frozen over. A measure of the complexity of these ripples as they spread could tell us whether Anna was fully, minimally, or not-at-all conscious. If she
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In the eighteenth century, the French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier conducted a series of ingenious experiments to prove that our life force was fire. First, he figured out what air was made of; he then, through precise measurements, showed that fire removed oxygen from the air and deposited it in
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Yet still others, the literary critics, noted that unlike novels, video games and film have never had the second-person perspective, the "you." Cameras in video games often take the point of view of a character's eyes and ears (first person) or take a vantage either above
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“If your lifestyle is not something that you were naturally born with, but something you chose yourself, then it must be possible to choose it over again.” If it’s not inherent, then it’s generated, and if it’s generated then it can be made into anything. Really gets
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“Adlerian psychology’s view is that it happens around the age of ten.” That's 13 in Autism years. I wonder what that is based on? Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The Courage to Be Disliked.” Atria, 2018-05-08. Apple Books.
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“Of course, you did not consciously choose “this kind of self.” Your first choice was probably unconscious, combined with external factors you have referred to—that is, race, nationality, culture, and home environment. These certainly had a significant influence on that choice. Nevertheless, it is you who chose “this kind
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“How one sees the world. And how one sees oneself. Think of lifestyle as a concept bringing together these ways of finding meaning. In a narrow sense, lifestyle could be defined as someone’s personality; taken more broadly, it is a word that encompasses the worldview of that person and
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“But the true hearer is ravished and stirred by the beauty of the subject matter, not by the jingle of empty words” Excerpt From: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Annaeus Seneca. “Stoic Six Pack.” Lulu.com, 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00. Apple Books.
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Confusingly, some had remembered their experience as an actual memory of having been once stood up, which meant that the fictional story had ingratiated itself into their autobiographical story of self. If a brain is a prediction engine, some memory researchers argued, then would not even false memories, trapped in