Forget Sam Harris -- call General Mills to set up a company to sell intelligence-restoring omelettes in convenient heat-and-eat packages (recyclable, ...
And just how did they test the intelligence of Paleolithic humans? I have heard rumors that IQ scores have been rising throughout the 20th century. Ma...
Yesterday they were forecasting as much as 30 inches for Boston, weren't they? Maybe you have lucked out. 30" is definitely bad. One year there was so...
Pfft! he says. So what that the average snowfall in Moscow is 152 cm? The winter should be bad, seeing as how bad weather is Moscow's moat to stop ran...
The sentence "You" can live without self-actualization; "for me" it's essential." was not to be taken as specifically applicable to you. I was just ob...
Yes, generally speaking, one can self-actualize when one's basic needs have been satisfied enough. People who are starving think first, second, and th...
Right. I suppose one could say that "self-actualization" isn't a need in the same sense as oxygen or food is a need. One may be very unhappy without s...
Yes, it is slightly better now -- about 1% better. Short piece, small results. I don't have any existential fears just right now, thanks to 2 hours of...
Esteem, especially "self-esteem" has carried a heavy workload lately. ) Full disclosure: I didn't read any Maslow 50 years ago. I read a little of him...
Pavlov, Skinner, et al. B. F. Skinner put the best possible face on behaviorism in his novel, Walden Two. "Psychology" can be very annoying. Students ...
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs does all that? Maslow's aim was to demonstrate that people are motivated to achieve certain needs and that some needs take...
Maslow published his book on motivation in 1943, so he, at least, wasn't being too new agey. Shirley, you don't deny that there are higher needs for l...
The physiological needs (food, water, oxygen, clothing, shelter, sleep) are non-negotiable demands. Yes, they can be put off (in the case of oxygen, m...
It isn't clear to me why you think the "deficiency needs" at the bottom of the pyramid are "negative". DB (Darth Barracuda) said the same thing. https...
I have no idea. I was surprised to see "pfennig" in my post -- its a word I don't think I've used more than twice or thrice. That was 6 years ago. I a...
I would agree that, if the spelled-out methodology was incompatible or in conflict with someone's innate method, it would constrain the accumulation o...
It doesn't need to be spelled out. Your innate methodology was put together way before you started thinking about not wanting to deal with systems of ...
What we have here is a failure to communicate. by which, just guessing, you mean "somebody else's system". You, your brain, your mind have a unique sy...
I will yield some territory here. It is clear that we make decisions (think) using emotions. Consumer behavior has been studied in this context, and b...
And, judging from your posts, not a novel experience. The brain has lots of different parts but thinking and emoting both seem unitary. The physical b...
It seems reasonable to suppose that the intensity of emotion would play a role. I don't know--no personal experience with psychedelics. I'm not a neur...
If "making ourselves feel good" is the cause for doing good, then have a ball. Also... a) many are taught to do good for righteousness' sake -- do goo...
As Schopenhauer said, "'A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants'? I take to mean "we can not choose to desire something". We desire it,...
As if we could know anything at all without information-acquiring behavior first. I don't want to suggest that "emotion" is either a way of knowing, o...
Strong emotions are intended to produce quick decisions, like "get the hell out of town before the 350 pounder buries the knife in your gut". (As you ...
If some one says, "Men are usually taller than women", numerous citations can be provided. If someone says, "More women than men are attending college...
Giving to others should feel good because it IS good. Give what feels good to you to organizations doing work that makes you feel good (assuming that ...
What is the irony in mentioning Mary? In a way, I'm not sure one can say Jesus was the founder of Christianity, let alone his mother. Jesus, Mary, and...
Touchy and tricky. Tricky because we tend to make generalizations about the differences and similarities of men and women without having a whole lot o...
Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science, the Christian Science Monitor, and wrote Science and Health with Keys to the Scripture. Mother Ann Lee foun...
Russell wrote that in 1920, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. I've been Reading Richard Overy's The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain betwe...
This church is not diverse. But then, it's a liturgical Lutheran church, and most Lutherans (never mind Hare Krishnas) do not like liturgical worship-...
The GD is like in church when they decide to sing all 8 verses of some dragass hymn. Look, Jesus is too busy for all 8 verses. Just do the first 3, th...
I just discovered all of this via YouTube and Wikipedia. So much to learn, so little time. Here's the Grateful Dead's version; I think Zevon's is bett...
Ok, I had to look it up on YouTube. My literacy in pop kulcha (as some in London pronounce it) is not very good. That's too bad, because the older I g...
it was, but how do ravens relate to werewolves? (Other than showing up in a dreary midnight hour while one is weak and weary, pondering over many a qu...
Stravinsky reportedly said, "Vivaldi didn't write 500 concertos; he wrote the same concerto 500 times." The quip is established enough that a 1986 boo...
If all the classical music heaped up over the centuries serves "no wholesome purpose", what in God's name does? That many people find classical boring...
New way to ruin the children's lives: show them films of predators eating prey that is alive--ideally, the Big Bad Wolf eating Bambi without benefit o...
Right. Vladimir has been focused on fucking Ukrainians lately. By the way, congratulations are in order. You are the first person to use "plangent" on...
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