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Brain Mind and Other Things

 Jon Craig ― http://brain-and-mind.blogspot.com

Thoughts, musings on brain, mind, daily life.

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Listed: Sep 16, 2011

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On Nighttime Anxiety

Brain Mind and Other Things ― I wake up in the middle of the night with a concern about work. My thoughts race, looking at the problem from every angle -- from the left, from the right, from the inside, from the outside – as my anxiety becomes heated. I try to fall ...

Tags: Thinking/Deciding

Jon Craig ― 11 min ago

Cool and easy, light and breezy

Brain Mind and Other Things ― Years ago, when I lived in California, I was talking with a Rastafari friend of mind about relationships. I was telling him about my difficulties dealing with my girlfriend's fiery reaction to things. ∙ He was a relaxed guy, easy to spend...

Tags: My Life

Jon Craig ― 2 days ago

Memory, Mental States, and Pavlov's Dog

Memory, Mental States, and Pavlov's Dog

Brain Mind and Other Things ― Pavlov's dog heard a bell and then received its food. The dog eventually came to associate the bell with food, and would salivate as soon as the bell rang. Dogs and cats and rats and monkeys and humans and snails, and all other animals as far as ...

Tags: Memory

Jon Craig ― 6 days ago

Habits of Mind

Brain Mind and Other Things ― When you perform a movement followed by another, the two movements become linked together gradually. If you repeat the two movements enough times, performing the first movement will automatically lead you to perform the next. I play a melody on ...

Tags: Thinking/Deciding

Jon Craig ― 1 week 5 days ago

How much of the brain do we use?

Brain Mind and Other Things ― It is a myth is that we only use 10% of our brains. Look at an fMRI of a person ∙ engaged in a cognitive task. The whole brain is active -- no dark ∙ holes of inactivity waiting to be triggered by a spiritual awakening. ∙...

Jon Craig ― 2 weeks 3 days ago

Doing what feels 'natural' to you

Brain Mind and Other Things ― A conversation with my brother-in-law stuck in my mind. Valentin was practicing jazz guitar, and working on playing chords in a particular rhythm. In jazz, when a guitarist plays background chords rhythmically while another instrument, like a...

Jon Craig ― 3 weeks 1 day ago

Taking pleasure in the misfortune of others

Brain Mind and Other Things ― I've heard a number of people from Spain describe what they perceive to be an unattractive quality of their own culture - jealousy of someone else's possessions or successes, pleasure in another's misfortune. ∙ This morning I was reading a...

Tags: Spain, Motivation

Jon Craig ― 3 weeks 5 days ago

A Woman with a Split Brain

Brain Mind and Other Things ― Linda had a split brain operation around the time I met her. I was a freshman at Haverford College, working with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania who were studying the functions of the left versus right hemispheres of the brain. ...

Tags: Thinking/Deciding

Jon Craig ― 4 weeks 2 days ago

The Book Nudge

Brain Mind and Other Things ― I met my friend Jerry Dinkins for coffee at the Hungarian Pastry Shop this morning. Jerry is retired. He and my father were born around the same year. Like me, Jerry loves to read, and so we often talk about books. Maybe because he's older, the...

Tags: My Life

Jon Craig ― 4 weeks 6 days ago

Egypt's Jon Stewart: Will Humor Conquer All?

Brain Mind and Other Things ― You may have seen clips, or at least heard about the comedian they call Egypt's Jon Stewart, Bassem Yousef. ∙ Here's a nice CBS piece about him: ∙ Below you can see the former heart surgeon turned comedian on an Egyptian cable TV...

Jon Craig ― 5 weeks 4 days ago

Friendship is something I discovered later in life

Brain Mind and Other Things ― It's not that I didn't hang out with other kids. When I was nine, a friend and I would spend time at each others' house and listen to records. He had a big dog that understood words. He'd say to the dog "Go downstairs, Shep", and damned if the...

Tags: My Life

Jon Craig ― 6 weeks 2 days ago

Fear and Loathing of Obama and Jefferson

Brain Mind and Other Things ― I don't know what the campaigns were like during the presidential elections of Millard Fillmore or James Buchanan. But reading "Thomas Jefferson: the Art of Power" by Jon Meacham, the loathing expressed toward Jefferson during his first ...

Jon Craig ― 6 weeks 6 days ago

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