By studying the communication patterns of emotional abusers, we can better identify the anatomy of an unhealthy, one-sided relationship.
Communication Patterns of Emotional Abusers
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Brains are quantum pattern recognition engines.
I have come to believe, and current research supports me on this, that our brains are quantum pattern recognition engines. Researchers have known that our brains are pattern recognition engines for as long as I've studying this. But, the current evolution of our...
Being Critical is Not Thinking Critically
There is a huge difference between questioning something to understand it better and arguing merely to win. Being critical is simply pointing out what you see wrong with a thing. Critical thinking seeks a better understanding of that thing.
Done right, there are no losers with critical thinking, only winners. Updated June 2024.
The Social Dilemma Transcript – Main Arguments
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. This lesson attempts to catalog the evidence presented and validate the main arguments. Updated Oct, 2023
The Origins of Identity Politics
Identity politics is all around us. Whether you know it or not, we are all bathing in it. Some Americans have embraced it gladly, while others have simply become inured to it and no longer bat an eyelid. Many others, however, have begun to take notice, and to them something does not seem right.
Noam Chomsky as Seen by Tom Wolfe
[pdf-embedder url="https://atlantisschoolofcommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HarpersMagazine-The-Origins-of-Speech.pdf" title="HarpersMagazine-The Origins of Speech"] The Origins of Speech In the beginning, was Chomsky by Tom Wolfe Nobody in academia had...
How the Mind Makes Meaning
This lesson, How the Mind Makes Meaning, provides the latest thinking on how the brain works and how we can use that thinking to help us develop communication “Best Practices.” Updated Feb. 2024.
Racial and Partisan Disparities in Response to Covid-19
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Mathematical Beauty Activates Same Brain Region as Great Art or Music
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. There are many different...
Quarantine Fatigue
Quarantine Fatigue Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic. In the earliest years of the HIV epidemic, confusion and fear reigned. AIDS was still known as the “gay plague.” To the extent...
The Cognitive Science of Free Will
The Cognitive Science of Free Will How to make the best decisions is one of the "Key Questions" the @lantis Learning Community is interested in. This lesson is focused on how the brain constrains our decision making by fooling us about Free Will One of the main...
Network Neuroscience
The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas. Networks pervade our lives. Every day we use intricate networks of roads, railways, maritime routes and...
Whistled Languages help understand Cognitive Processes
Herodotus mentioned whistled languages in the fourth book of his work The Histories, but until recently linguists had done little research on the sounds and meanings of this now endangered form of communication. New investigations have discovered the presence of...
Neuro Linguistic Programing
Neuro Linguistic ProgrammingSkeptics ViewI think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples' (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others' strategies and have a strategy that creates new...
Neural Networks
A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/neural/local.html What Is A Neural Network? The simplest definition of a neural network, more properly referred to as an 'artificial' neural network (ANN), is provided by the inventor of...
How We Think
[ted id=2265]Great Videos of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions. Here is a Transcript of one of them. 00:12 Imagine that you invented a device that can record my memories, my dreams, my...
The Neurophysiology of Religion
This lesson on the Neurophysiology of Religion looks at the cognitive science that tries to understand how we process Religious Information.
Neurotheology
Iran J Neurol. 2014; 13(1): 52–55. PMCID: PMC3968360 PMID: 24800050 Neurotheology: The relationship between brain and religion Alireza Sayadmansourcorresponding author Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been...
Talking to Conservatives
This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
Cognitive Resonance From Communication
[ted id=2265] Great Video of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions.