Aeon+Psyche
The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas
11+ min · · Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work? · Shared by 315, including Massimo Pigliucci, Lee Keyes, Rick Powell, Gabriele, Tactical Tech, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Michael Shermer, Jason Silva
TED Talks
How to support a friend or family member who’s struggling with their mental health
7 min · · Every person’s experience is different, so what’s the best way for you to show up for them? Mental health advocate Sahaj Kaur Kohli provides you with 8 dos and 8 don’ts. · Shared by 281, including ClearAction / Lynn Hunsaker, CCXP, Rick Powell, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦
Aeon+Psyche
What we’re doing when we’re doing epistemology
14+ min · · Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing? · Shared by 266, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Cecily Whiteley, Massimo Pigliucci
The New Yorker
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
7 min · · Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. · Shared by 264, including Felix M, Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), David Nagel, Gregg Caruso, Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, Bailey Richardson, Marie-José Kolly
Aeon+Psyche
Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental
12+ min · · The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them · Shared by 245, including Massimo Pigliucci, Anita Leirfall, Abeba Birhane, Uyên Đỗ, Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Nir Eyal, Alejandro Dominguez, Sonja Peteranderl (@glocalreporting@chaos.social), Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Matthias Lampe, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Psychology Today
The Downside of Solitude
3 min · · Losing connections with your social world. · Shared by 233, including Lee Keyes, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Lynda
The New York Times
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
11+ min · · Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences. · Shared by 214, including Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Daniel Kraft, MD, Sai Kan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, MAPS, Vaughan Bell, Bjorn Larsen, Rick Powell, Forbes India, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Scott Galloway, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
Aeon+Psyche
Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief
10 min · · Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief. It’s a valid and causally efficacious biological reality · Shared by 207, including Anita Leirfall, Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell, Faik Ersoy, justin caouette, Massimo Pigliucci, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Dr Skye Cleary, Vaughan Bell, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jennifer Hurst, Gregg Caruso, David Pearce
Aeon+Psyche
Cheerfulness cannot be compulsory, whatever the T-shirts say
8 min · · Practising the Greek virtues of wisdom and courage is one thing. But being cheerful the American way borders on psychosis · Shared by 181, including Jane, Rick Powell, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl
Aeon+Psyche
Neurodiversity is not enough. We should embrace psydiversity
14+ min · · We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity · Shared by 177, including Miguel Angel Escotet, Carly, Rick Powell, Vaughan Bell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
Nautilus Magazine
To Be More Creative, Cheer Up
12+ min · · I pour a cup of coffee, sharpen my pencil, and get ready to create. I’ve dusted off a half-conceived novel outline I abandoned three… · Shared by 173, including Michael Hyatt, Gretchen Rubin, Rick Powell
MIT Technology Review
The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
3 min · · Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity. · Shared by 167, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Christian P. Stobbe, Jakub Ferenc, Rick Powell, Ward Plunet, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Oliver Reichenstein, Dominik Grolimund, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Christophe Jean, Josep M. Ganyet, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ines Bieler, Charles Baldwin, Nico Luchsinger, Xavier Bertschy
The New York Times
Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless
5 min · · The book “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” by Justin Gregg, contrasts human thought with animal intelligence. The people come up short. · Shared by 150, including Rick Powell, Chris Bertram, Tactical Tech
The New Yorker
What Does the Life of the Mind Do In a Crisis?
5 min · · Crises are, at least while they are happening, not educational opportunities. But there are still things to learn. · Shared by 149, including Dr Skye Cleary, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Miguel Angel Escotet, Liv 😷, Christian Surchi, David V. Johnson, Jane, Rick Powell, Jason Stanley, John Danaher
Aeon+Psyche
It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist
2 min · · Many scientists believe that natural selection brought our perception of reality into clearer and deeper focus, reasoning that growing more attuned to the outside world gave our ancestors an… · Shared by 142, including Anita Leirfall, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Faik Ersoy, Niklaus Gerber, Doug Sundheim, Gregg Caruso, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Ines Bieler, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, Vaughan Bell, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
Scientific American
How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain
4 min · · The digital age has heightened our vulnerability to falsehood, but recognizing such weaknesses can help guard against them · Shared by 139, including L. Taylor Banks, Faik Ersoy, K. Williams, Katja Evertz, fnord, Thomas Power, Clemens M. Schuster, Lluís Codina, Miguel Angel Escotet, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Rick Powell, Mark Kaigwa, ExApologist