Tag Archives: Neuroscience

The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Luther Blissett

By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading →

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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Luther Blissett

By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading →

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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading →

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Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Madeleine Bunting Source: Rise Up Times “Are you paying attention?” The phrase still resonates with a particular sharpness in my mind. It takes me straight back to my boarding school, aged thirteen, when my eyes would drift out the … Continue reading →

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Our Bigoted Brains

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Eleanor Goldfield Source: Popular Resistance If you’ve ever moved beyond small talk and vapid pleasantries in conversation then you’ve likely dealt with the infuriating occurrence of trying to convince someone of a fact they just don’t want to accept. … Continue reading →

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Alex Schlegel on Imagination, the Brain and ‘the Mental Workspace’

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Rob Hopkins Source: Resilience What happens in the brain when we’re being imaginative?  Neuroscientists are moving away from the idea of what’s called ‘localisationism’ (the idea that each capacity of the brain is linked to a particular ‘area’ of … Continue reading →

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I Participate

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Luther Blissett

By Jonathan Bessette Source: Adbusters Recall that you’re sitting in a rapid transit vehicle, carried along the sky-line above cement highways, paved in homage to the Romans, who designed a system of militarized paths stretching everywhere, causing everything to lead … Continue reading →

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Fear our new robot overlords: This is why you need to take artificial intelligence seriously

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Luther Blissett

Killer computers determined to kill us? Nope. Forget “Terminator” — there’s something more specific to worry about By Phil Torres Source: Salon There are a lot of major problems today with tangible, real-world consequences. A short list might include terrorism, … Continue reading →

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