Do Neurons Control Thinking?
Neurons are not arbiters of thoughts that arose outside of the brain. Thoughts result from the collective action of neurons.
Tag: learning
Can we increase our IQ?
The core finding is that two years of additional education increased the average IQ by 7.5 points.
Brainstorm Short Circuit
When my right hand shaking started to affect my hand writing, I converted fairly easily to keyboard writing. I’d been programming a computer since my early 30s. Yet when the shaking worsened and I could…
Types and Sources of Knowledge
What do you know for sure? Knowledge. Immediate, Secondary, and Authority
Decision Model Ethics
These basic imperatives—satiety, sex, safety—get coated by personal, family, and societal perspectives which organize a unique set of individual experiences into one's moral values.
Letting Your Subconscious Work For You
Link your memories and interests with the course material. Do this before the course starts. So it's your interests, not the teacher's.
Technical Writing Course
"Letting Your Subconscious Work for You" instructions to read before the semester began.
Memory Types
Working memory has two special processes to note. The visual-spatial scratchpad helps us answer questions like 'how many windows in your house?' We also have a phonological loop that we use for reasoning, 'to talk…