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fromNature
1 day ago

Daily briefing: What people with no 'mind's eye' can tell us about consciousness

Vividness of mental imagery, handwriting practices, psychiatric-diagnostic revisions, and emerging brain–computer interfaces shape memory, creativity, education, mental-health classification, and technology development.
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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Thoughts Have Power

The emerging consensus is striking-the mind does not merely interpret reality; it actively participates in shaping it. Across research on the placebo effect, athletic peak performance, and self-fulfilling prophecies, a consistent pattern appears: what we expect, believe, and even feel profoundly alters how we experience the world. Put differently, the mind is not a passive observer. It is a predictive, generative, reality-filtering system-one that continually constructs the lens through which we live our daily experiences.
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