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- Global Workspace Theory: Consciousness, Attention, and the Theater of the Mind
Global Workspace Theory is one of the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. It tries to explain why some information in the brain becomes conscious while most information remains unconscious. At any moment, the nervous system processes an enormous amount of data: sounds, bodily sensations, memories, emotions, visual details, words, expectations, motor plans, and background… Read more: Global Workspace Theory: Consciousness, Attention, and the Theater of the Mind - Why Do Humans Love Sports? Competition, Identity, Ritual, and the Psychology of Play
Humans love sports because sports concentrate many of the deepest forces in human nature: play, competition, belonging, skill, beauty, risk, emotion, identity, and story. A game is never only a game. It is a structured drama in which bodies, rules, chance, courage, failure, loyalty, and excellence become visible. People watch sports not merely to see… Read more: Why Do Humans Love Sports? Competition, Identity, Ritual, and the Psychology of Play - Introvert vs Extrovert: Personality, Energy, and the Psychology of Social Life
The difference between an introvert and an extrovert is one of the most familiar ideas in personality psychology, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In everyday language, introverts are often described as shy, quiet, private, or reserved, while extroverts are described as outgoing, talkative, social, or bold. These descriptions can be partly… Read more: Introvert vs Extrovert: Personality, Energy, and the Psychology of Social Life - The Fourth Way: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the Work of Awakening
The Fourth Way is an esoteric system of self-development associated primarily with George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky. It teaches that ordinary human beings live much of their lives in a state of “waking sleep,” moving through habits, reactions, fantasies, emotions, and social roles without genuine self-awareness. The aim of the Fourth Way is… Read more: The Fourth Way: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the Work of Awakening - Alvin Goldman: The Philosopher Who Made Knowledge Reliable
Alvin Ira Goldman was born on October 1, 1938, and became one of the most important American epistemologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He entered philosophy at a time when traditional theories of knowledge were under intense pressure. Edmund Gettier’s short 1963 paper had shown that justified true belief was not enough… Read more: Alvin Goldman: The Philosopher Who Made Knowledge Reliable - Thomas Nagel: The Philosopher of Consciousness, Objectivity, and the Limits of Reduction
Thomas Nagel was born on July 4, 1937, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, to a family that soon emigrated to the United States. He became a naturalized American citizen as a child and was raised in and around New York. His life began in the shadow of European crisis, but his intellectual formation unfolded in… Read more: Thomas Nagel: The Philosopher of Consciousness, Objectivity, and the Limits of Reduction - Jerry Fodor: The Philosopher Who Gave the Mind a Language
Jerry Alan Fodor was born on April 22, 1935, in New York City. He came of age during a period when American philosophy was strongly shaped by analytic method, behaviorism, linguistics, and the rise of computer science. These were exactly the intellectual forces that would define his career. Fodor was not a philosopher who treated… Read more: Jerry Fodor: The Philosopher Who Gave the Mind a Language - David Chalmers: The Philosopher Who Made Consciousness the Hard Problem
David John Chalmers was born on April 20, 1966, in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in Sydney and Adelaide. Before he became one of the most famous philosophers of mind in the world, he was drawn to mathematics, puzzles, systems, and abstract structure. He studied pure mathematics at the University of Adelaide from 1983 to… Read more: David Chalmers: The Philosopher Who Made Consciousness the Hard Problem - Gilbert Ryle: The Philosopher Who Exposed the Ghost in the Machine
Gilbert Ryle was born on August 19, 1900, in Brighton, Sussex, England, into a large, educated, intellectually lively family. His father was a physician with interests in philosophy and astronomy, and Ryle grew up with access to books, conversation, and habits of independent inquiry. That atmosphere mattered because Ryle’s later philosophy would always resist pompous… Read more: Gilbert Ryle: The Philosopher Who Exposed the Ghost in the Machine - Francis Bacon: The Philosopher of Experiment, Power, and the New Science
Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561, in London, into a family close to the center of Elizabethan power. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I, and his mother, Anne Cooke Bacon, was a learned woman from a distinguished humanist family. Bacon grew up… Read more: Francis Bacon: The Philosopher of Experiment, Power, and the New Science