Category Archives: psychos

Comfort or Food? The Harlow Monkey Love Song

Anyone who gets through first year psychology will be familiar with Harry Harlow and his cruel experiments with rhesus monkeys. Little orphan monkeys were given the choice between a wire surrogate mother who provided food and a terry cloth surrogate … Continue reading

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The Meaning of Life (in Under 300 Words)

It turns out some psychologists (Baumeister and Vohs, 2002) have found the meaning of life. Psychologists are much more pragmatic than philosophers. Rather than working out the meaning of life from first principles or anything daft like that they just went … Continue reading

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I’m sorry Alice

Maybe it is the recent experience of protesting against the pope that has me seeing paedophilia everywhere. Or, without knowing it,  i’ve become a Daily Mail reader. Which gives much the same effect from completely opposite causes. Anyhow, somehow my … Continue reading

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idiolect.org.uk

http://www.idiolect.org.uk/notes/

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Cognitive Daily

http://cognitivedaily.com/

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Ben Goertzel

http://www.goertzel.org/blog/blog.htm

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Mixing Memory

http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/

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neuralsoup

http://www.neuralsoup.com/

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MonkeyMagic.net

http://monkeymagic.net/blog/

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