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View allWhy Astronomy Still Uses Mythography
Astronomy still uses mythography because it aligns to how our brains work
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Scientific Evidence, Neuromythographic Reinterpretation
One of the challenges in getting a holistic view of the neuroscience literature is that there is "evidence"
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Wilhelm Wundt's Warning About Reities
I coined the word "reity" to refer to the modern social science propensity for coining abstract nouns to
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Nietzsche on Words and Originality
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote:
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot
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On Cargo Cult Science
South Pacific Islanders after WWII built replicas of airport objects in hopes that cargo planes would land and deliver goods again. But the planes did not land.
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Rime of the Ancient Neuromythographer
The discovery and identification of a large set of puzzle pieces...has made it possible to apply a modified version of an ancient practice to solve a bleeding-edge problem, where the abstract mental nouns have failed.
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The Neuromythography of Procrastination
The finding here suggests that procrastination is the self rebelling against doing something being imposed upon it from the outside. 8BM has a stubborn side.
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Paranoid Story Listening
When listening to an ambiguous social narrative, paranoids had higher activation in left TPOJ1, left TGd, and right 9mdp.
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Does the ventral striatum cause BPD patients to actually enjoy being insulted?
Does neuroscience say BPD patients unconsciously enjoy being insulted? The problems with the ventral striatum-reward center paradigm.
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Old Dogs, New Tricks, Noradrenaline, and the Locus Coeruleus
One of the stereotypes of aging is being set in one's ways, and no longer wanting to seek
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The Justice of Theseus: Right IFSa
While right IFSa (Theseus) is usually involved in deciding to administer third-party punishment, in the present study it showed up in restraining punishment of the unfair player.
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