Archive for August, 2007

Synchronicity & Brain Hemisphere Communication

Monday, August 27th, 2007

As creatures of Reason, our greatest skill is making up reasons. They do not, however, always employ Reason™, in the Platonic sense. They are more like justifications. I am coming to believe that this is where the internal monologue comes from. To fully eliminate making justifications to oneself and others, you must be always acting […]

Making Faces: Mimicry & Emotional Intelligence

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Babies learn through copying. They experiment with copying sounds until they can form words and evetually sentences. Similarly, they copy facial expressions so that they can learn the subtleties of non-verbal emotional communication. This imitative behavior is exhibited primarily in humans and other apes, but also in certain types of monkeys. According to sources I […]

Dancing With Myself

Monday, August 27th, 2007

“When there’s no-one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
Well I wait so long
For my love vibration
And I’m dancing with myself” - Billy Idol
The best thing about playing chess against yourself is that you always win because you always know what the other guy is planning. A friend of mine recently tried to argue […]