IQ is a stupid metric –hold for laughs– It’s arrogant for psychiatrists and others to believe that we’ve learned enough about the workings of the mind to be able to assign a numerical value to something as abstruse as a person’s intelligence. How softly humorous that I should utilize thesaurus.com to augment my vocabulary when…
Something that hasn’t happened for awhile has happened recently. I’ve caught myself using the same word, or variations of the word, too often, i.e. some others, some people, sometimes. Maybe it’s still happening, just look at the 1st word in this post. I need to consult with a group of neurologists and figure out what…
I’ve been getting interested in parasites lately. I watched a couple vids of some remarkable behavioral changes that occur in the host. For instance, whipworms, after having matured inside a grasshopper, will influence the grasshopper’s brain chemistry to the extent that the grasshopper will make a suicide plunge into water. Then the whipworms burst out…
On certain instruments, the time between the musician’s action to play a note and when that note is heard isn’t negligible. For example, when I press a piano key, there’s some milliseconds between when my finger first touches the ivory and when the hammer strikes the string. Does the brain compensate for this delay when…
I like the occasions when I wake up and soon after remember something significant that happened the day before but had not yet been cataloged in long-term memory. It feels that through remembering, the memory moves from the short-term to the long-term compartment.
I wonder if during typical child-parent communication the parent thinks to themselves “Wow, that makes perfect sense” or “That’s exactly the same kind of thinking process I use.” Might not the child’s brain be wired in a way similar to that of its parents? Yes, so much of brain development depends on upbringing, but I’d…
If someone spoke non-stop for hours on end about multiple subjects that unfolded, I wonder if neurologists could map the neuron structures in their brain just by reading the monologue.
There are people out there with 3 or 4+ degrees in various subjects. In terms of the kinds of conclusions that could be reached, this multi-degree per person arrangement strikes me as more beneficial than a group of people, each of whom hold 1 degree, getting together everyday to discuss. Imagine 4 degrees in the…
One of the effects of the hallucinogen psilocin in psilocybe mushrooms is that the brain doesn’t filter any of the sensory stimuli that it receives. This is in large part what tripping is: sensory overload. Maybe one of the reasons we get tired in the evening and need an 8 hour restful sleep each night…
If I need to remember to do something in the morning, I throw my pants on the floor or displace an object on my desk, anything that will strike me as odd and cannot go unnoticed when I wake up. I’ll know I purposefully moved the object or threw the pants on the floor the…