On 6/4/24 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Decorticate animals may writhe and pass and even groan. Are they
dreaming?
Nick Thompson, meet my bar friend Galen Preston Tracyk the 4th...
he/she/they are a bar friend who is always happy to speculate with me
about just about anything. I pas
Another question: Decorticate animals may writhe and pass and even
groan. Are they dreaming?
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 1:11 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Qyestions about dreams;
>
> When do dreams happen. do they happen when we are asleep, or are they
> memories generated by the flooding of
Qyestions about dreams;
When do dreams happen. do they happen when we are asleep, or are they
memories generated by the flooding of the brain with stimulation about
awakening?
Is dreaminess a specific physiological state: For instance, if you set
your self the task of writing a story immediatel
'I might restate Rvonsuo as "dreams help us find the nooks
and crannies in the hull of constraints presented to us by reality - the
edge cases'
This aligns with my experiences, observations, mildly founded
beliefs. Game theory experts here might be able to add something
about the as
Original message
From: glen
Date: 6/3/24 11:04 PM (GMT+01:00)
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unpleasant dreams
I had a conversation with a psychiatrist friend of mine wherein she
assumed the dichotomy between "good feelings" and "bad feelings" (
Evolutionary psychology is one of those disciplines where you see whatever you want to see. Now, I haven't
read Nesse. But wherever anyone tries to reduce a high dimensional, dynamic space like whatever it is
evolution operates over and within to a single cause-effect narrative, I get suspicious
n-designed-your-fear-236858/-J.
Original message From: glen Date:
6/3/24 11:04 PM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Unpleasant dreams I had a conversation with a psychiatrist friend of mine
wherein she assumed the dichotomy between "good feelings&quo
I had a conversation with a psychiatrist friend of mine wherein she assumed the dichotomy between
"good feelings" and "bad feelings" (e.g. an angry or relieved reaction to some
thing like the Trump verdict). Through about an hour of conversation, I'd tried to convince her
that dichotomy is fals
Did you notice that some of the most successful movies from Spielberg are about
our deepest fears? Jurassic Park is about monsters from the past. Jaws is about
monsters which lurk in the deep blue sea. Indiana Jones is about monsters (and
treasures) hiding in dark tombs.Paul Boom remarks in his
