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The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
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Teasing 10 threads fromShannon Moffett’s…
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Thread 1:
“No one knows where in the brain pain is located. But when they find out where beauty is located, pain will be right next door.
(pg. 3)
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The vast majority of what happens in the brain is unconscious.
(pg. 80)
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Thread 3:
Although our consciousness feels to us as continuous as a movie there is evidence it is in fact spliced together from scraps by our brains.(pg. 102)
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One physical manifestation of REM sleep is that men get erections.
(pg. 131)
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Thread 5:
The problem with people who have Dissociative Identity Disorder is not that they have more than one personality. It’s that they have less than one personality.
(pg. 168)
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Thread 6:
Multiple Personality Disorders remind us that we’re all a little more vulnerable than we like to think. They are a recognition of human frailty.
(pg. 183)
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Thread 7:
The Hard Problem of Consciousness is the experience of subjectivity. How do I know I’m me and how do you know you’re you?
(pg. 191)
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Thread 8:
The 7 Sins of Memory are: transience (slow loss over time); absent mindedness; blocking; misattribution; suggestibility; bias; and persistence.
(pg. 246)
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Thread 9:
If you raise male rats in the dark, their testes shrivel up, unless you remove their pineal gland, in which case they don’t. The pineal gland is one of the brain’s only unpaired organs.
(pg. 195)
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Thread 10:
The brain is somewhat like the TV show Survivor. Neurons audition in competition with one another to get to the island of consciousness, at which point they must forge and foster alliances to keep from being kicked off.(pg. 205)
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There’s a phenomenon known as Inattentional Blindness : if you’re not paying attention to something – even if it’s enormous, unusual and right in front of your face - you won’t see it. (pg. 212)
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Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
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