Thursday, 28 August 2014

The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part II

The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part II

Part I of the series here The Dimensionality of Personality We all have a friend who is happy go lucky, fun, and bounces around the place. We may have a reasonable basis to assign an 'optimistic trait' to this person. However, I am sure that you have seen this exact same person have an 'off day' where...

Saturday, 23 August 2014

Waking Up

Waking Up

Hi folks, had to share this with you from Sam Harris' website. The original article can be found here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/chapter-one Interesting to note that someone of his stature is insisting on investigating the illusory self using phenomenological means. I hope this is the beginning...
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