by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
You are the lucky owner of a magnificent piece of biological machinery – the human brain. Your brain is always on, performs lightning-fast calculations, and is a whiz at making connections between seemingly unrelated factors and observations. The only downside...
by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
The metaphor linking the human brain with computer hardware is now so well known that it features regularly in news media stories. But computers have only been with us since Colossus and ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and computer) were constructed in the...
by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Your nerve system is your body’s master communication system. Your brain – your body’s central processing unit – receives information from every other system. Information on sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell is constantly bombarding your...
by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Both Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and creator of the theory of natural selection, were born on February 12, 1809. Modern evolutionary theory, of course, is based on Darwin’s theory of...
by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Is a computer like a human brain or is a human brain like a computer? When machines allow us to extend our abilities, are we enhancing our humanness or becoming more machine-like? What are the meaningful distinctions between humans and machines and how do these impact...
by Scott Bolz | Jul 15, 2020 | Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Scientists and philosophers have pursued the notion of mind for thousands of years. [Of course, being able to think about the mind’s origins and place in the universe presumes having a mind, but that’s a separate piece of this puzzle.] Regardless of...
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