"Supernormal Stimuli"

"Supernormal Stimuli"  is Harvard psychologist's Deirdre Barrett latest book, focusing on how our modern technology plays upon and overwhelms our primitive instincts to ill effect.

Review here:

http://www.newsbag.org/?p=45761
 

Consciousness Cont'd.

And much much more about consciousness, compiled by David Chalmers here:

http://consc.net/online

Pinker-Wright Discussion

Robert Wright and Steven Pinker in an interesting hour-long dialogue from a recent "Bloggingheads.TV":


http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/24005

Rattling the Mind

Interesting NY Times piece on how "nonsense," anomalies, and general affronts to mental expectations serve to sharpen the mind and creativity, possibly by nudging the pattern-seeking brain into overdrive:

http://tinyurl.com/yzllqf2

Self-understanding

Potentially interesting responses from a couple dozen leading psychologists who were asked to describe "one nagging thing they still don't understand about themselves":

http://tinyurl.com/ye3hfyt

(...personally, I still don't understand how my cell phone works. Beyond that, I don't understand how any of us are able to either efficiently process or fluently produce our native spoken language, not to mention learning all that at an infant stage.)