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A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth.
    #7408277 - 09/14/07 09:28 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

A MIND OF IT'S OWN: How Your Brian Distorts and Deceives, by Cordelia
Fine.


Takes a delightfully unsparing look at what your brain is doing behind your back. Examines how, unbeknownst to us, our brain - vain, emotional, immoral, deluded, pigheaded, secretive, weak willed, and bigoted - pushes, pulls, twists, and warps our perceptions.

Have a blast with this one seekers of truth.:thumbup:


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7408507 - 09/14/07 10:39 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

*sound of crickets chirping*


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7408593 - 09/14/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Of course. Simon and Garfunkel could have written an ode to it.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7408601 - 09/14/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

But "Sounds of Silence" does not compare to their greatest wcolaboration: "Feeling Shmoopy".


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7408602 - 09/14/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

But "Sounds of Silence" does not compare to their greatest collaboration: "Feeling Shmoopy".


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7408749 - 09/14/07 11:50 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Well said, twice.:tongue:


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7409566 - 09/14/07 02:47 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Didn't you say you couldn't know anything in an earlier thread? I think you did:

"Having had the time to let things sink in over fifty some years it has become apparent to me that whatever constitutes the whole of reality is vast beyond anything I can contemplate."

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7400657/an/0/page/0


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Windows]
    #7409730 - 09/14/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

if we are only a brain, and our brain controls everything we are and do, then how are involuntary functions taken control of?
example: slowing heart rate, increasing body temp, controlling the digestive tract....etc.

If there is something overriding the brain, then what is it? is it the brain over-riding the brain?
seems like if I was head of a company I owned, the CEO of CEO's then I wouldnt be taking orders from someone higher up than me, because there is no one higher up.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7409750 - 09/14/07 03:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Different parts of our brain do not operate within our mind's control. The Triune brain theory expands upon this idea & is extremely fascinating, IMO.

http://www.kheper.net/topics/intelligence/MacLean.htm


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7410435 - 09/14/07 06:15 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

:lol:
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Ironically, one category of persons shows that it is possible to view life through a clearer lens. "Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge," Fine asserts. "They are the clinically depressed." Case in point.




from: http://www.amazon.com/Mind-its-Own-Distorts-Deceives/dp/0393062139


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I have done it before and it never has an effect on the true believer so what is the point?




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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7412142 - 09/15/07 06:27 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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A MIND OF IT'S OWN: How Your Brian Distorts and Deceives, by Cordelia




My Brian is a good chap! :rolleyes:

Seriously tho, sounds like a good read.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7412184 - 09/15/07 06:49 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

lol


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Windows]
    #7420134 - 09/17/07 03:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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Didn't you say you couldn't know anything in an earlier thread? I think you did:

"Having had the time to let things sink in over fifty some years it has become apparent to me that whatever constitutes the whole of reality is vast beyond anything I can contemplate."

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7400657/an/0/page/0




Yeah that's what I said all right. So?


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7420147 - 09/17/07 03:26 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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YawningAnus said:
if we are only a brain...




I would like to think that we are more than just a brain, because when I think about it I feel like there's something more there. But, that feeling is made completely by chemicals in my brain...


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7420334 - 09/17/07 04:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I'll just call it self importance and leave it at that.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Veritas]
    #7420338 - 09/17/07 04:20 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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Different parts of our brain do not operate within our mind's control.




Your brain may be deluding you into feeling that way.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #7422178 - 09/18/07 12:56 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Fear Ye Fear Ye!

Your brains is out to deceive you!


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7422200 - 09/18/07 01:14 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Our mind doesn't have full control of our brain? Wow, who would have thought.


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Icelander]
    #7422212 - 09/18/07 01:23 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

does the author allow for any personal responsibility?
or are we completely at the mercy of this "brain" character?


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Re: A book for all the "open minded" who know the truth. [Re: Clean]
    #7422431 - 09/18/07 04:37 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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are we completely at the mercy of this "brain" character?




That sneaky little bastard has caused me trouble for years. I have been considering getting rid of him.


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