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June 4, 2018
Triune Brain
Triune Brain The Triune Brain is a model for the evolution of the vertebrates brain proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean. The Triune Brain consists of the reptilian complex, the paleomammalian complex (lymbic system) and the neomammalian complex (neocortex). The reptilian complex is responsible for instinctual behaviors involved in aggression, dominance, territoriality …
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Orthogenesis
Orthogenesis The concept of orthogenesis is similar to a concept that I wrote about in a previous post, the concept of Directed Mutagenesis. Basically, orthogenesis is a hypothesis that organisms have an innate ability to evolve in a certain direction, towards a certain goal (teleology). While this theory was popular at the end of the …
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June 3, 2018
100 Days to Run a Marathon Challenge: Done!
So I finally managed to do a marathon. About three weeks earlier before the deadline, 26 of June. The summer is here and it’s getting hotter and hotter, hence my decision to do it as soon as possible to avoid the summer heat. It was an interesting road to this point, back in March when …
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June 2, 2018
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory The essence of the chaos theory can be summarized in the following quote by Edward Lorenz: Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. In some cases deterministic systems are unpredictable due to the element of chaos and small differences in initial conditions can …
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May 31, 2018
Divided Consciousness
Divided Consciousness Carl Jung said in 1935 that “The so-called unity of consciousness is an illusion… we like to think that we are one but we are not.” Later on, Ernest Hilgard believed that during hypnosis, consciousness can be split into distinct components. Hilgard’s bimodal consciousness has a receptive mode and an active mode. For more …
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Krogh’s Principle
Krogh’s Principle This principle is important to the disciplines of biology that rely on the comparative model and states that for a large number of “problems” there will be some animal of choice on which it can be conveniently studied. Organisms use similar neural algorithms, behaviors and even structures to accomplish similar tasks. For example, …
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May 30, 2018
My First Dive Into Hydroponics
I knew about hydroponics for a few years now and I’ve been curios but didn’t took any action towards starting my own little “hydro-garden”. Well that changed today because today is the day when I started messing with hydroponics a bit. It’s an experiment where a lot of things can go wrong and there might …
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May 29, 2018
Bott Hypothesis
Bott Hypothesis The Bott Hypothesis was first formulated in a work from 1957 titled Family and Social Networks by Elizabeth Bott . This hypothesis states that the more interconnected are the separate social networks of the husband and wife the more marital roles are segregated. In other words, external close-knit social networks provide the spouses …
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May 28, 2018
Cognitivism
Cognitivism Cognitivism is a movement that started as a response to behaviorism. The difference between cognitivism and behaviorism is that behaviorists think that all behaviors are reflexes to a certain stimuli in the environment or a consequence of someone’s history (including punishment and reinforcement), whereas cognitivists think that the way people think influences their behavior. …
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May 27, 2018
Dispersed Knowledge
Dispersed Knowledge The concept of dispersed knowledge in economics states that no agent has information to all the factors that influence prices and production throughout the system. In other words, no one has a complete image over everything that is going on at a given time in economy. One of the first economists to write …
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