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Think of your Long Self as a landscape through which you walk, down a path that (for the time being at least, until we develop time travel) you walk in a single direction. What we are learning is that even if you cannot go back and physically revisit your past, your life landscape is full of grottoes, the mouths of subterranean passages that never noticed or just regarded as pretty or scary feauntil now you had never tures in the landscape. They are the openings of a subterranean cave system that interconnects your past and future.
Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self
Eric Wargo
Same thing with primates, including us, like person is sitting there having some unpleasant scary medical procedure, a catheterization, blood pressure goes up. They get to sit there holding the hand of somebody they know and trust, doesn’t go up as much. Yes, social support is great.
Ingenious: Robert Sapolsky - Issue 15: Turbulence - Nautilus
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"I quickly 'solved' hundreds of problems just by virtue of improving a person's awareness of their own behavior," he said. "I got the idea to do this from the Hawthorne effect," a behavioral phenomenon discovered in 1958 that describes how people change the way they act when they know they are being watched. "It's a nuisance to academic scientists looking for complete control but an integral part of my empirical science where I'm looking to give control back to people," said Kashey.
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
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