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Archive for Antonio Damasio – Page 2

The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part II)

Welcome to part II of this two part blog series. In part I, I spent considerable time talking about what mental containers are and how they are used. In this post I’d like to take a look at how our mental container skills get set up in the first place. I’m assuming you have read […]

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Disgust: How Social Emotions Become Social (If They Actually Do)

In my last post I talked about the political, sociological, and economic implications that I recognized as I read neuroscientist Louis Cozolino’s book entitled The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (2006, 2014). In this post I’d like to focus in on some technical information from Cozolino’s book that, […]

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Brexit Stage Left: Cultural Cognitive Model Fail

Author’s note: I am simulposting this post both at LinkedIn Pulse and at Bowlby Less Traveled. By now you probably have heard that the UK voted to leave the EU or the European Union. This decision now goes by the name Brexit, which is short for British Exit. Pundits are speculating that the Brexit vote […]

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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—I Must Have Been Dreaming

For the last several posts I’ve been pulling bullet points from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. I thought my last post Nuts & Bolts would be my final installment. But an astute reader asked me why I did not pull a bullet point centered on […]

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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Nuts and Bolts

After my last Top Down or Bottom Up post, a few nuts and bolts appeared on the radar screen. For the last several posts I’ve been pulling bullet points from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this follow-up post I’d like to quickly look at […]

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