Abyssal MindMusings and Links about Mind, Psychology, Spirituality and other Curiosities.Moving Abyssal Mind to http:brain.blogs.com- October 8, 2003 It is time for me to move Abyssal Mind to another site. I chose the excellent TypePad service for various reasons. I think at the new site I might be able to put more effort into Abyssal Mind, and perhaps start some other blogs at http:brain.blogs.com This Radio Userland site will definately work until the end of October, and perhaps longer than that. However, I will be making all new postings on that site. Also, for those interested, I've got a new RSS Feed URL for that site...http://brain.blogs.com Latent Inhibition- October 7, 2003 This link discusses interesting research that goes one step deeper into understanding creativity: ... creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment. Other people's brains might shut out this same information through a process called Latent Inhibition - defined as an animal's unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs. The article says that both psychosis and creativity share this lack of latent...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031001061055.htm Sleep Position Personalities- October 5, 2003 This BBC News article discusses new research that correlates different personality types with the position people sleep in. For instance, the most common position (41%) - the foetus position - allegedly are initially shy and have externally tough but internally sensitive personalities. This is yet another of the long string of studies of the dispositional paradigm which purport to relate almost anything you can think of with personality "types". I am increasingly skeptical about such..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112170.stm#sleep Answering "Who Am I" Explicitly- October 3, 2003 Doug, over at a new blog called slumberfogey, recently posted this fine answer to the perennial "who am i" question. While most of his items are included in my own self-concept, I don't often make such a clear declaration of myself. I think all of us already have an implicit answer to the who am I question, and the answer underlies everything that we say and do. Clearly understanding parts of this self-concept and making it explicit gives us the ability to...http://life.typepad.com/slumberfogey/2003/09/who_am_i.html Psychogeography- October 3, 2003 According to a quotation in this wikipedia article, psychogeography is "the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals". It seems psychogeographers are a very interesting bunch. I think psychogeography is more about creating environments to produce effects, not so much about studying the effects of environments. But anyway, it got me wondering about how often we pay attention to the situations...http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography Managing Your Attention to Avoid Information Overload- October 2, 2003 The amount of information that we are being bombarded with is getting insane. Life in the 21st Century is typified by us having to monitor more information channels than we can handle and sifting through increasing amounts of noise to find the precious signal that we need. Think of every mode of experience as an information channel. Each RSS Feed is an information channel. Your email lists and friends, IM, chat, and forums are information channels. The radio news is a channel. Each web...http://radio.weblogs.com/0114196/2003/10/02.html#a139 |