Can ‘Reality’ be ‘Bifurcated’? If so, what would be the energy required to do so? Could a human brain bifurcate reality? And, if one brain had managed to achieve the critical threshold energy to do so, would other observers existing within the same space-time frame also perceive related phenomena? All these questions are examined by […]
Tag: thought
Profiling Professor Persinger – part 2
Can one’s brain become entangled? Einstein called quantum entanglement ‘spooky’, but he was nevertheless obliged to grapple with the puzzles and possibilities of Verschränkung – which were first fully described by Erwin Schrödinger, circa 1935. Since then, a series of experimental studies have convincingly demonstrated entanglement behaviour at the quantum level – but few theorists […]
Unthought knowns, unknown thoughts, and such stuff
As Distinguished Eagle Scout Donald Rumsfeld famously put things back in 2002 : “There are known knowns (the things we know we know) but we also know there are known unknowns (that is to say we know there’s some things we do not know) but there are also unknown unknowns (the ones we don’t know […]
A metaphor for fMRI studies of thought?
A new study contains a poetical phrase that maybe, just maybe, is a metaphor for the severe difficulty and beauty of a great scientific quest: learning how the heck the brain manages to think. Many brain scientists use a complex technology called “fMRI” (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to make rough pictures of activity (many sorts of […]
Effects of Chewing on Cognitive Processing Speed, Maybe
This study adds a big “maybe” to the possibly-thought-inducing question of whether chewing speeds up a person’s brain, or parts of a person’s brain, or aspects of what might happen in part or parts of a person’s brain, more or less. The researchers reach a tentative “could” in the final sentence of their summary: “Effects […]
Simple complex thought: Sex-attraction examples
Great thinkers think complex thoughts, according to one simple line of reasoning. Here’s are two related studies. Alone and together, they demonstrate some surprising, and surprisingly complex, thinking. The first study [via NCBI ROFL] is: “The best men are (not always) already taken: female preference for single versus attached males depends on conception risk,” Paola Bressan [pictured […]