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Why I Choose “Pillow Over Pavement”: The Neuroscience of Your Morning Struggle
The alarm goes off. It's 5:30 AM. You set it last night with the best intentions—today, you promised yourself, you'd finally go for that morning walk. You know it's good for you. You know you'll feel better afterward. You know your future self will thank you. And yet,...
Why Your Brain Chooses Donuts Over Salad (And It’s Not Your Fault)
The Strange Case of the Self-Sabotaging Brain Here's a puzzle that's been bothering scientists for years: Your brain's main job is to keep you alive and healthy. So why does it keep choosing things that are terrible for you? Think about it. Your brain knows...
From Sensation to Emotion: How Your Brain Constructs Your Feelings – From the perspective of Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Introduction Have you ever wondered why the same situation can evoke completely different emotions in different people? Why does your heart racing feel like excitement before a presentation but anxiety before a medical test? The answer lies not in universal emotional...
The Six Stages of Human Thinking: How We Evolved from Living in the Moment to Living Everywhere But the Moment
Picture a deer in a forest. A twig snaps. The deer's head jerks up, muscles tense, ready to bolt. But there's nothing there—just wind. Within seconds, the deer returns to grazing, completely absorbed in eating, no lingering worry about what might have made that sound....
The Second Chapter: Of the Three Metamorphoses
After the Prologue, Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra transitions into the first of Zarathustra's discourses in Part One. This section, titled "Of the Three Metamorphoses" (or "The Three Metamorphoses" in some translations), is often considered the first...
Three Wills, Two Systems: When Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science
What drives human behavior? Three German philosophers offered distinct answers: Schopenhauer's blind Will to Live, Nietzsche's ambitious Will to Power, and Frankl's transcendent Will to Meaning. After my recent article exploring these philosophies, readers observed...