...08 - 09...

There is a link! -- I have said in the previous post -- and here is how the warm and cold metaphor links with the reality of a real personality trait.

If you want to learn more about the personality and the development of it, you may find these articles interesting and somewhat novel: Robert Kegans Stages of Social Maturity, Cloningers Temperaments and Character.

Or you might enjoy the world's smartest mouse video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txq_BogA1NM

It's the smartest and so it learned all the course without punishment, but here is some data about punishment , cooperation and games .

Of course you realized this post is somehow a spaghetti of '08 cogsci popular articles, so here you'll see Dr John Medina popularizing some interesting stuff that you knew but maybe too often overlooked.

I would complement it with this wonderful collection of reminders from the latest discoveries in the field of mind: http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/sets/72157604445314847/

If I'd swap my body with yours, I'd wish your reality to be as unbiased as possible; don't forget that distortions are usually bad, especially when we perceive them as real: hurtfully bad. :-)

In the end of '08 and at the begining of '09, after seeing this almost incredible experience, I wish you a happy new year and may it be full of kindness.

Synch to you latter!

I, Many

One can really think of himself only as a multidimensional person. One is defined by many personalities sometimes in conflict one with each other (although most of the time this is an unconscious process).

Think only that you have (and that's roughly) about four different types of memory that you are using every moment to evaluate something, to bring it to life in your own point of view. Semantic, Episodic, Sensorial and Procedural. These memories about "the same thing" are connected (most of the time) but the representations differ in many ways including the anatomical part of where are they stored in our brain.

A very nice article by Paul Bloom - about how one is in fact many - appeared here, in The Atlantic. One of the oldest web shaped form of the theory that I've had the pleasure to track down is here.

If you ignore that article, maybe you are too busy and although I do respectignorants (by ignoring them :) ) - I also understand the benefit of forgetting , it is hard to know everything. You may conjunct it with the information about propanolol and its role in forgetting. Oh, linked with the role of emotions in rational decisions, remembering and encoding information.

Yes, I do remember the beautiful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

See? Everything is apart apparently but linked nonetheless :-)