"Supernormal Stimuli"

"Supernormal Stimuli"  is Harvard psychologist's Deirdre Barrett latest book, focusing on how our modern technology plays upon and overwhelms our primitive instincts to ill effect.

Review here:

http://www.newsbag.org/?p=45761
 

"Supernormal Stimuli"  Deirdre Barrett Harvard psychologist  talks about how our modern technology plays upon and overwhelms our primitive instincts.

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Consciousness Cont'd.

And much much more about consciousness, compiled by David Chalmers here:

http://consc.net/online

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Pinker-Wright Discussion

Robert Wright and Steven Pinker in an interesting hour-long dialogue from a recent "Bloggingheads.TV":


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Rattling the Mind

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Self-understanding

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