mental

I bought "Secrets of Mental Math" by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer. I really like the book and enjoy learning how to do the tricks and mental calculations. However, the main reason that I bought it is because when I typed in Shermer's name at the book store computer it came up. I picked...

I've made the claim before that I do not "believe" in mental disorders. With only a few exceptions, most of the DSMIV labels are just that-- labels. The notion that they represent real conditions is absurd to me. I think the only thing we can safely say is that the linguistic title of "disorder...

In the "those books are Satanic!" section of Randi's latest commentary, there's a couple of sentences that disturb me even more than the know-it-all front desk attendant thinking Demon-Haunted World was Satanic. It was these: It's state-run, but it pushes Christianity on its patients? Sounds...

A friend just developed psychotic delusions, with religious topics playing a large role. Some might defend these delusions as legitimate religious experiences. I find it quite alarming coming from a person whom I have considered an intelligent, thinking person. She considers her experiences...

By mental causation I mean that our intentions/desires etc are actually causally efficacious in themselves and bring about appropriate behaviour.

This is something that really stumps me, why hasn't Natural Selection weeded out these genes? Why do I have OCD(although non existant with the medication. Thank you science.) and all the other mental disorders that people have? Also why hasn't Natural Selection weeded out the capacity to be...

Im still unclear on just who these "Insurgents" are? To me is a broad term to describe the people who are rasing arms and fighting the coalition and new Iraqi govt. I dont think they are particularly organized as one group. More like pockets of resisistance. They could be foreign...

Let us presume in port city 'A' we have a population of 1,000,000 people. Of those people, .1% have a fear of drowning in a ship accident. Of those people, any given person with a fear of drowning in a ship accident will have a dream involving their fear and the ship docked outside their window...

Mental Magic - Telepathy and Clairvoyance by Trickery By: Barry Robbins Although Barry Robbins was never directly involved in psychical research, his article below on "mental magic" is of great importance as it demonstrates, in plain language, how trickery can be used to demonstrate apparently...

Hello everybody; I have been reading most this forum for a while, and I've seen most of the discussions finish talking about the "free will" concept. UCE and others seems to imply that determinism forbids free will, which is an observable human quality, and they offer the soul concept as the...