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Daryl Bambic

This Is Your Brain on Metaphors - The New York Times - 1 views

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metaphor brain sapolsky psychology

shared by Daryl Bambic on 19 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • viscera and emotion often drive our decisionmaking, with conscious cognition mopping up afterward, trying to come up with rationalizations for that gut decision.
  • Get someone to the point where his insula activates at the mention of an entire people, and he’s primed to join the bloodletting.
  • brain confusing reality and literalness with metaphor and symbol can have adverse consequences, the opposite can occur as well.
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  • This neural confusion about the literal versus the metaphorical gives symbols enormous power, including the power to make peace.
  • “mutual symbolic concessions” of no material benefit will ultimately make all the difference.
  • but when black South Africa embraced rugby and Afrikaans rugby jocks sang the A.N.C. national anthem.
  • He meant talk to their insulas and cingulate cortices and all those other confused brain regions, because that confusion could help make for a better world.
Dayna Rabin

The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate O... - 1 views

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Storytelling brain learning story research

shared by Dayna Rabin on 30 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that?
  • When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich
  • are very likely to never forget the story of who invented the sandwich ever again
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  • For over 27,000 years
  • stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods.
  • Our brain on stories: How our brains become more active when we tell stories
  • We all enjoy a good story,
  • why do we feel so much more engaged when we hear a narrative about events?
  • we listen to a powerpoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated.
  • It's in fact quite simple. I
  • Broca's area and Wernicke's area
  • language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning.
  • things change dramatically.
  • how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up. If it's about motion, our motor cortex gets active:
  • but any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too.
  • A story can put your whole brain to work.
  • can have the same effect on them too.
  • The brains of the person telling a story and listening to it can synchronize, says Uri Hasson from Princeton:
  • By simply telling a story, the woman could plant ideas, thoughts and emotions into the listeners' brains."
  • Evolution has wired our brains for storytelling—how to make use of it
  • hy does the format of a story, where events unfold one after the other, have such a profound impact on our learning?
  • We are wired that way.
  • While we are busy searching for a similar experience in our brains, we activate a part called insula, which helps us relate to that same experience of pain, joy, or disgust.
  • We think in narratives all day long,
  • We make up (short) stories in our heads for every action and conversation.
  • In fact, Jeremy Hsu found [that] "personal stories and gossip make up 65% of our conversations."
  • henever we hear a story, we want to relate it to one of our existing experiences.
  • metaphors work so well with us.
  • story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect.
  • John Bargh
  • We link up metaphors and literal happenings automatically. Everything in our brain is looking for the cause and effect relationship of something we've previously experienced.
  • ou mention the same story to him, as if it was your idea?
  • According to Uri Hasson from Princeton, a story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.
  • tell them a story,
  • According to Princeton researcher Hasson, storytelling is the only way to plant ideas into other people's minds.
  • Write more persuasively—bring in stories from yourself or an expert
  • multitasking is so hard for us.
  • ask for quotes from the top folks in the industry or simply find great passages they had written online.
  • The simple story is more successful than the complicated one
  • easy to convince ourselves that they have to be complex and detailed to be interesting.
  • the simpler a story, the more likely it will stick.
  • Using simple language as well as low complexity is the best way to activate the brain regions that make us truly relate to the happenings of a story.
  • xchanging stories with those of experts.
  • educe the number of adjectives or complicated nouns in a presentation or article
  • Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that used to make stories awesome.
gillian baron-goodman

The unconscious mind: Hidden depths | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by gillian baron-goodman on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • unconscious—a sort of shadowy basement of the mind
    • gillian baron-goodman
      gillian baron-goodman on 02 May 13
       
      a great metaphor, that helps people understand how the unconscious mind works
  • Freud's unconscious (a hot, claustrophobic place full of repressed memories and inappropriate sexual fantasies about one's parents)
  • place of super-fast data processing, useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.
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  • stitches together data on colour, shape, movement and perspective to create the sight enjoyed by the conscious part of the mind.
  • almost every piece of information they come across is a survival mechanism that evolved to aid quick decision making
  • ie behind the tendency for human beings to group people into races, genders, creeds and the like, and then to apply certain characteristics—unjustifiably—to every member of that group.
  • unconscious brains are better at using their conscious minds to overrule them.
courtney galli

Cult Formation - 0 views

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shared by courtney galli on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • ideological totalism,
  • Cults can be identified by three characteristics: a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
  • milieu control: the control of all communication within a given environment. In such an environment individual autonomy becomes a threat to the group. There is an attempt to manage an individual's inner communication. Milieu control is maintained and expressed by intense group process, continuous psychological pressure, and isolation by geographical distance, unavailability of transportation, or even physical restraint. Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events such as seminars, lectures and encounters which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically.
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  • Intense milieu control can contribute to a dramatic change of identity which I call doubling: the formation of a second self which lives side by side with the former one, often for a considerable time. When the milieu control is lifted, elements of the earlier self may be reasserted.
  • Three further aspects of ideological totalism are "sacred science," "loading of the language," and the principle of "doctrine over person."
  • Perhaps the most significant characteristic of totalistic movements is what I ca
  • Sacred science is important because a claim of being scientific is often needed to gain plausibility and influence in the modern age.
  • language
  • The principle of doctrine over person' is invoked when cult members sense a conflict between what they are experiencing and what dogma says they should experience.
  • The term loading the language' refers to literalism and a tendency to deify words or images.
  • l "dispensing of existence." Those who have not seen the light and embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the right to exist.
  • That is one reason why a cult member threatened with being cast into outer darkness may experience a fear of extinction or collapse.
    • courtney galli
      courtney galli on 01 May 13
       
      History of the person
  • Totalism should always be considered within a specific historical context.
Catherine Delisle

Building Superhighways in Your Brain | Harold Koplewicz | Big Think - 1 views

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Brain adolescent children

shared by Catherine Delisle on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
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      Catherine Delisle on 31 Jan 11
       
      This video is a very good explanation of the importance in keeping our brain active so that the connections don't die off. Harold Kiplewicz compares the connections in the brain to a highway and our sense of direction. The brain will tend to forget about the country roads but it will remember the most frequently used highways, which is a great analogy that easy to remember. He also explains that because of the fact that the brain keeps developing until 20-25 years old, medication has a different impact on children and adolescents compared to adults.
  • Daryl Bambic on 31 Jan 11
     
    This is a great site Catherine. I visit subscribe to BIG THINK. The metaphor for super highways is also very good.
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