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Current Interests and Recent Research |
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Signs of Consciousness contains a set of related essays that attempts to understand this evolution in terms of preexisting and emerging psychological processes and draws on some basic cognitive psychology to understand the capacities underlying the creation of signs. |
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The evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. This section contains mainly links to articles and sites reflecting similar interests. The remaining items provide assorted links to generally useful information related to the interests of this site. |
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Waking Nightmares - Sleep Paralysis and Nocturnal Hallucinations: In this site we describe many of the features of sleep paralysis and associated experiences. The material below has been gathered from many sources, but much of it is from our own research into the sleep paralysis experience. As data are collected we update the information provided at this site.
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Miscellaneous Unfinished Symphonies
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Dedicated to the clear-eyed Pierre Menard who faced down the tail-eating dragon of life and produced: "A technical article on the possibility of enriching the game of chess by means of eliminating one of the rook's pawns. Menard proposes, recommends, disputes, and ends by rejecting this innnovation." Jorge Luis Borges (1939) |
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"Under the rules of time, bad ideas are better than none at all because of a dark requirement for any action at all is the background feeling of the world's intelligibility." Philip Fisher: Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences |
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"In 'Star Trek,' every story is the same. There they are, the crew, working, working, working. Then somebody says, 'Captain! I've lost control of the ship.' The rest of the episode is about gaining control of the ship." "Compare that to 'Moby Dick.' Everybody's working, doing their job too. But the captain goes insane, the ship snaps in two, the crew drowns and the captain gets dragged to the bottom of the sea." Laurie Anderson |
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“If there’s nothing wrong with me, maybe there’s something wrong with the universe.” Dr. Beverley Crusher |
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