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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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Oops: Attention Lapses in
Everyday Life:
In this
site we investigate and report on those little foibles and mistakes we
make every day when we put the milk in the pantry and the sugar in the fridge
and leave the forceps in the patient. |
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Atheism Rising: The recent rise in the numbers and prominence
of atheists, as well as agnostics and other forms of religious nonbelief and skepticism raises questions about the psychological
factors in this social change as well as it implications for social values,
attitudes, and beliefs more generally. A Study of
Values, Attitudes, and Personal Histories of Atheists, Humanists, and
Skeptics contains a series of
questionnaires that address some of these issues. |
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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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