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Philosophy Psychology

Consciousness: Knitting Threads of Our Experience

After reading Daniel Dennett’s greatest book, Consciousness Explained, I conceived the idea of knitting as a metaphor for consciousness. Consciousness can happen in multiple degrees, from a lack of acknowledgement or control to intense experiences that can override any other experience in our brains. We learn some things permanently, notice others with errors in memory […]

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English Linguistics Psychology

A polyglot phenomenon: Turkish blocks other languages

In the audio lectures “the language and the mind” by Spencer Kelly, I learned how speaking more than one language can enhance cognitive control, which results from the continuous need to block the native language almost every time the speaker wants to use another language. I haven’t found the time yet to read more and […]

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English Machine Learning Psychology Statistics

The Follow Paradox

(عربي) A small radio in a bunker can make its owner feel like he’s connected to the world, even if no real mutual communication is happening with real people, the feeling of being associated with the world is still important. Probably that feeling isn’t as important as it is for all people, as some people […]

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English Memory Psychology

Answers without questions. data without base

[عربي] Short summary: If you don’t have questions, something you’re looking for, something you’re trying to prove, a hypothesis that you’re collecting information for, or at least something that interests you so that you like to collect information about it, then no information could be stored in your mind, and if some of it got […]