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What Is Sexuality?
What is sexuality? This, it appears, is the multi-million dollar question. It is said the subject is too complex for one consistent definition. And despite all the books I have read, I could not find one clear model that I could use to understand my sexuality, let alone discuss the concept with my children. Without a simple visual model and a common language, I feel the opportunity to have full and frank conversations with my kids is lost. But I have developed a solution that seems to be working, and here it is. Perhaps it could be helpful for you too?
By Belinda Tobin4 years ago in Psyche
Brain imaging, Consciousness, Jaynes and Wittgenstein
Your brain represents only 2% of your body weight. However, it is estimated that it consumes 20% of more of your body’s energy, even at rest. Modern Brain imaging techniques like fMRI or PET scans purport to associate particular states of consciousness with increased activity in specific areas of the brain. In the most basic of terms increased “activity” as measured by fMRI or PET or other techniques correlates with increased “activity” in a particular state of consciousness. So so far so good. It certainly makes cognitive sense to connect the two. It turns out that one of the founders of modern brain imaging techniques, Robert G. Shulman has begun to question this supposed link. In a fascinating new (not so new anymore but very much underappreciated still) work he suggests and describes in detail the weaknesses of this approach to cognitive neuroscience and modern neurophilosophy. It turns out that many imaging studies actually show a decrease in brain activity related to rest as measured by modern technologies in response to a given cognitive task. Modern interpretations of this data suggest that the decrease is attributable to increases in activity in areas related to self reflection and social reasoning. In other words it’s not really a decrease at all but simply an increase in other non-related areas of the brain. Shulman argues that every area of the brain is active at rest not just the specific areas attributed by modern researchers. So far I have relied (and cribbed) extensively from Colin Klein’s excellent review of Shulman’s book. I highly recommend you read it if you are at all interested in this area of research/philosophy/neuroscience.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Psyche
Julian Jaynes is the Bizarro Descartes
With the opening of Batman v. Superman this weekend (not exactly, it was a summer weekend way back in 2016) it seemed an appropriate time comment on an all-star clash of two superstars of psychology and philosophy, Julian Jaynes and Rene Descartes. At the moment I happen to be brain-deep in a first, and much belated read, of Jaynes’ seminal work, The Origin of Consciousness in the Break Down of the Bicameral Mind. There is a fascinating section in chapter three, The Causes of Consciousness, in which Jaynes appears to stake a decidedly un-descartian position. He suggests that the breakdown of authority and the gods resulted in a state of panic and hesitation in man. He reminds us that, according to his hypothesis, early man was not truly conscious, at least not in the subjective way we judge conscious man to be today. Instead the bicameral man turned to the Gods (who revealed themselves in auditory and visual hallucinations originating in the brain’s right temporal-parietal region) when navigating any particular difficult choice in action that might be required at any point in these early human’s lifetimes. In any forced violent intermingling of these early people they would seem to each other as coming from totally different nations, as having different Gods. Thus the observation “that strangers, even though looking like oneself, spoke differently, had opposite opinions, and behaved differently might lead to the supposition that something inside of them was different.” Jaynes points out, correctly in my view, that this exact opinion “has come down to us in the traditions of philosophy, namely that thoughts, opinions, and delusions are subjective phenomena inside a person because there is no room for them in the ‘real,’ ‘objective’ world.” Connecting the dots Jaynes then argues that before any individual man had objective thoughts he first “posited it in others, particularly contradictory strangers, as the thing that caused their different and bewildering behavior. In other words, the tradition in philosophy that phrases the problem as the logic of inferring other minds from one’s own self has it the wrong way around. We may first unconsciously suppose other consciousnesses, and then infer our own by generalization.” Descarte’s cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am, becomes he thinks, therefore I do (am).
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Psyche
How Does Anger Affect the Body?
A few things that transpired in our adolescence stay with us and erupt when we encounter comparative circumstances of shame or feeling weak. Likely, he's unconscious that he's apprehensive about being deserted or, similar to he was the point at which his folks got tanked at the bar and remained up until all hours, allowing him at home to sit unbothered during the evening. Whatever that hurt was that is showing up again now.
By Raveendra Swamy4 years ago in Psyche
Autobiography
My life has been a crazy rollarcoater! It’s crazy how god works 💥sometimes bad things happen but then overtime good things outnumber the bad things. Growing up I was a wild child, I was always climbing trees, jumping off rope swings , jumping off high objects, by the age of 3 I was trying to jump off a sea wall into a canal and if it want for my older brother catching me with his foot I would of been hurt. I lived in Hudson, Florida until the age of 6. Growing up in Hudson I remember walking to school because with lived right down the road and everyday when The bell rings I would go straight to the springs and jump off into the water and then I’d walk home. When I was 4 years old I was run over and drug down the road by a car and broke one of my legs in 3 places and was covered in road rash. My parents friends didn’t see me behind their car I was carrying dirt back and fourth from my driveway to the back yard and they didn’t know well I started screaming bloody murden my dad and brother came running and lifted the car off me and they drove me to the hospitol. Til this day I can remove what it felt like.I can picture it just like this. It’s Dark. Hot. My body feels broke, I’m rolling. Anyways, after that I remember going to pre-k and all the little kids pushing me in the wheel chair. Shortly after that dcf got involved and me and my little sister had to stay with my aunt for like 9 months I started transferred in 1st grade over to Lakeland. From there I was excelling in art, running, made A’s and B’s and then I went back home but my parents moved over to Lakeland to better their life. I lived in this house since I was 7 or 8 not sure. In 5th grade I got awarded a 50,000 scholarship 4 years to Polk state.growing up here I was always riding fourwheeler dirtbikes , fishing, playing football , just always out doing things in then middle school hit I got into a relationship for 2 years , after that ended, my best friend passed away from a car accident and became really depressed. I was only 13 she was 15. I was supped to be in that car that day. After, I was being bullied and harassed at school for being a “hoe” or whatever. So I didn’t wnat to go anymore. Well I got told on be one of my jealous friend and dcf got involved again and removed me from my parents and feom there I went from group home to group home it was horrible. The system is horrible. They treat the kids like slaves. We can’t have a phone , we have to clean the whole house and love with random. People bc the courts won’t let us go home because we’re sitting paychecks . They had no reason to remove me they simply couldn’t I offered In home services or couciling. Anyways I stayed at a group home for four months during my summer after freshman year and started my sophomore year at Clearwater high school. The group home was not in a great neighborhood. Finally my aunt got custody nearly and I stayed with her for four months until she put her hands on me and then I was back in a group home well the reason into the group home I said I’m not staying here no more I want to go home to my parents this isn’t fair I’ve been home at eight months so I ran away and I refused to go home during those eight months I went through a lot and I wasn’t doing the best thing I ended up in a mental hospital in a psychosis because I lost my mind. Right after I got pregnant and then I finally was able to go home. So I was with my whole pregnancy at home doing counseling and everything else so they finally offered me counseling after removing me and everything else cause any more drama and depression and more issues. My baby daddy was staying with me but apparently was cheating on me the whole time and I see if you had a son he dipped. He comes to town if she wants to play family for a few days and it was again. It’s not even suffering from realizing that I’m a single mom and I was played and shoes in our hurting and I forgot to mention that during my pregnancy I got my life together I got my license got my first vehicle graduated and finish high school then I started school at Polk State College and I’m still a Polk State College in my son is nine months old now I’m still single mom and yeah I have no clue where I’m going to do with my life I have so much on my fingertips I don’t know where to go and I’m not really financially stable I get money from college and I use that money to help my parents and Take care of my son and the number of big and I don’t have enough money to get my own place and all that. I’m studying business a Polk State College but my dream is the study room Balaji I want to go on the boat tag and sharks and discovering species in teaching people about marine life but I guess that dreams out the window until unless I go back to school later on in life but I don’t know anyways yeah this is a little short autobiography so if you wanna learn more about me or you enjoy reading this just subscribe Thankyou .
By Kylie Harrell4 years ago in Psyche
Perfectionism, What It Is, and How It Develops
Perfectionism involves putting pressure on ourselves to meet certain high standards, which in turn strongly influence the way we think about ourselves. Researchers have shown that some parts of perfectionism are useful and other parts are useless.
By Tyra Major4 years ago in Psyche
Mixy.
Mixy. A black and white papillon. He was originally granddads from before I was born; 1989 he mentioned. He was bigger than me when we first met, and last I held him, he fit in my arms like a doll. Though eight years have passed, I still feel as though it were yesterday.
By Kannya Nadila4 years ago in Psyche
