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- renee...
My therapist says...
if you have a disorder (I’d call this an undesired response + occurring regularly), don’t apply any strategies, any self-regulating methods to meet the stimulus. Don’t try to lower the fear. Any safety strategies will likely keep it in place.... - onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"bylaymanpascal...
The basic idea of thinking on terms of brain systems with an evolutionary slant continues to be suggestive but I think we'll need to shift toward information systems rather than anatomical chunks and the correlations between arrangements/proportions and emergent phases of the... - dillpixel...
rumination
I read that when we dwell on past distressing events, the brain attempts to resolve the outcome repeatedly regardless of when it occurred.
By approaching triggers with equanimity and non-attachment, you’re fundamentally retraining your nervous system. The real shift happens not in avoiding or overcoming but in merely observing and allowing.... - Josh...
Brain as a Prediction Machine
This is my first post on here since Dara invited me a few months ago. Feels like it might be a fun place to discuss consciousness and brains. In my Cognition and Emotion class in grad school, we just watched this video.... - dave...
I think the predicitive processing model is the best model of how we work that I have come across. It seems like it provides a framework that helps explain _why_ a bunch of various personal and interpersonal (and even some spiritual) development techniques work.... looks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"
The final—and most important—problem with this mistaken view is the implication that anatomical evolution proceeds in the same fashion as geological strata, with new layers added over existing ones. Instead, much evolutionary change consists of transforming existing parts.... - kendra...
I have heard that the “mom brain” phenomenon is actually tied to a really big neurological event that happens where your brain is creating space/attuning to that which matters most and requires, therefore, the most brain matter.... WEIRD🍄🐉: A mushroom sold openly in Chinese markets makes nearly everyone who eats it undercooked see the same thing: hundreds of tiny, colorful little people crawling walls, climbing furniture, or marching under tablecloths, for up to three days!... - Redelman...
Cultural evolution science has gotten pretty good at describing how cultures change, spread, and persist. What it doesn't yet have — at least not in integrated form — is a theory of cultural formation at the substrate level: how culture gets patterned into individual nervous... Why Old CIA Documents Still Matter In The Age Of AI And Brain Scans
MK Ultra was not the only project. Earlier work under names like MK Delta focused on chemicals and drugs for secret operations. When MK Ultra took over, it kept using a lot of the same chemicals and ideas. The work did not stop.... - onWEIRD🍄🐉: A mushroom sold openly in Chinese markets makes nearly everyone who eats it undercooked see the same thing: hundreds of tiny, colorful little people crawling walls, climbing furniture, or marching under tablecloths, for up to three days!by
for sure. A while back a friend of mine was asking about if DMT entities were real or not, and I felt internally a little dismissive of him. But now I think it's truly an interesting area of research. What aspects are real? What aren't?... I agree. There is some energy lost in the sharing or announcing it. I have read that it gives us a level of dopamine that keeps us in the just doing enough stage to talk about it instead of doing the actual work.... Read the full postThe Matrix in Embryo
Living Neurons Forced Into Silicon Computer Simulations These systems raise questions that ordinary computers never force. The tissue is alive. It adapts. It organizes activity in response to feedback that researchers describe in terms of predictability versus chaos.... - onHow can we step outside the biases that distort our judgments of human development and history, especially if our neurological and transcendental structures themselves constrain what can appear to us as reality?by
especially in regard to people being developmental entities, i.e., growing along various stages such a proposition is hard to hold. Though in Germany we say "Ignorance is no excuse in law/doesn't protect you from legal punishement," I think, differentiation is apropriate and it... - lightseeker...
Is social media altering our brains?
A large contemporary neuroimaging study has found measurable associations between social-media exposure and cortical morphology in early adolescence; whether social-media exposure causes those differences, whether developmental characteristics drive usage, or whether both...