Like the Wormholes of Your Mind
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, consciosness | No Comments »While I'm writing my book "Balanceology" I will sneak in a blog to you grandchildren every so often. While I'm writing the chapter on "Human Thought", Cosmologists are into thinking about multi-verses these days, and they refer to the connection ...
Competitive Plasticity
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Critical Thinking | 1 Comment »Well kids, we left off the last blog asking how we could replace erroneous thoughts or beliefs with more factual information. (critical thinking). It's not easy. The neurons that make up the erroneous thought or belief covers an area on the ...
Thoughts & Quotes about Critical Thinking
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, social science | 1 Comment »Kids, grandpa calls the beginning of the 16th century the beginning of science.That is when Nickalaus Copermicus wrote that the earth circled the sun ... rather than the other way around. At that time, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey said; "Be very, very ...
The Brain as a Hologram
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | No Comments »Kids, the brain is as complex and complicated as the universe. The brain has as many neurons as there are stars in the universe and just as many unanswered questions. Karl Pilbram came up with idea of the brain as a hologram ...
The “Other-Than-Conscious Mind”
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | No Comments »The Other-than-conscious mind is also called the subconscious mind, or the unconscious mind ... or the non-conscious mind. It's an area of science still searching for a better word to describe the "other-than-conscious mind". For the sake of brevity kids, we will ...
“The Young and the Neuro”
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Tolerance | 3 Comments »David Brooks, hope you don't mind my using the title to your New York Times 10/13/09 article on the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society's conference. This is a subject that this of great interest to this blog. This blog is being ...
Your Grandpa’s Strange Neural Pathways
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | 2 Comments »Kids, have you ever noticed how grandpa will be talking about one subject and then, out of the blue, I will switch to another thought? I know I confused people many times when I was working. Grandpa has strange neural ...
Happy 14th Birthday Jack
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, family | 1 Comment »Well, what was I doing at age 14 Jack? Let's compare notes. Let's go to the book I wrote and see what I was doing at your age. There are two sections within each chapter. Section 1 were my childhood stories. Section ...
Newsweek article: Is Your Baby Racists?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Tolerance | No Comments »I had just written my most recent blog; "Will We Experience a Wave of Tolerance?", when our new Newsweek arrived. In my blog I wrote that the most tolerant people in the world are new born babies. I was hoping the ...
A Universe above everyone’s shoulders
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, cosmology | No Comments »Things that appear to be science, but cannot be proven, comes under the heading of science fiction. Your grandfather is not into science fiction ... but this blog sort of comes under that category. Maybe if I call this blog a metaphor ... I'll ...
Our Stubborn Neurons
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in Brain, science | No Comments »Well kids, in grandpa's humble opinion, one of the most important advances in the next few decades will be for the human race to understand the amount of control our stubborn neurons have over us, and then learn how to ...
The Mind within a Mind [con't.]
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »Trying to understand the workings of the mind and human thought is tougher than trying to understand the cosmos. With our great detectors & telescopes, we can pretty much cover the entire electromagnetic spectrum to "see" almost back to the ...
Back to Free Will & Human Agency
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, free will | No Comments »The puzzle the conscious and non conscious minds, and of human thought, brings in the puzzle of free will. The following is a comment submitted by Jim Nester which I find is the best interpretation I have received so far: "First, I see ...
The Mind within a Mind [part II]
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »When we left off in part I, we said our non conscious mind is like the part of an iceberg below the surface, and the conscious mind, like the visible part that just sticks out above the surface of the ...
The Mind within a Mind [part I]
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »As part of our cosmology effort with the 11 grandchildren, we came up with the Nested Universes concept. Human thought and consciousness is our second area of interest. Let's come up with an idea that is equally as plausable as our ...
Update on the 2nd Prediction [part III]
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »My New Years Day 2000 prediction: "The greatest advance in the next 50 years will be the acceptance of a common spiritual concept by the majority if all religions, science, and by the majority of humankind. A spiritual understanding will be born ...
Results on the 1st Prediction [part II]
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »I'm sure there are many other opinions about what was the most important advancement in the 2nd half of the 20th century. But from my perspective, advancement in understanding the human brain was the most important ... It turns out ...
Predictions [part I]
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »Nostradamus is probably the best known predictor. I've made two half century predictions. I like to consider them as my two best guesses. My first prediction came about over a few beers with a college age friend in the wee ...
Happy Birthday & Memory Day Emma!
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, family | 1 Comment »This is a special day Emma. It's your 5th birthday! And you will be the first child to celebrate "Memory Day". When a child reaches the age of five grandpa thinks there should be a special day called "Memory Day." I will ...
Neuroplasticity part III Rewiring the Brain
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Brain, consciosness, family | No Comments »As I get into this blog about rewiring your brain, I need to remind you kids that grandpa is not a neuroscientist. These are my thoughts ... and not necessarily "expert thoughts" on the subject. Since I had dyslexia I ...