What, is it May already? Hibernation is one thing, but disappearing from here for close on two years is something else entirely! But I am pertinently awake now to post about alertness. The stimulus for this post comes from our government’s exhortation for us to “Stay Alert!” as we precariously enter the next phase of… Read More Dr Derek’s Guide to Being Alert
For some reason, I have been thinking about negentropy this week. The term has different meanings in different contexts. I would like to consider it in relation to information theory. The central tenet is about the relationships between energy and information. Every bit of information has attached to it an energy cost. This was neatly… Read More Filosofy on Friday – Negentropy
Research into brain science and the mind has historically had to navigate between two conflicting assertions. The first arose in ancient Greece – “Know Thyself”, as inscribed at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The second comes from Zen teachings – “Mind trying to know itself is like a sword trying to cut itself”. These… Read More Filosofy on Friday – The Self-Sharpening Brain
Grand Tour of Thinking Errors: We have spent the past few weeks travelling through the wonderful landscapes of thinking errors in cognitive-behavioral therapy – also known as cognitive distortions or biases in information processing. Different writers and therapists identify them in different ways. As CBT has developed over the years, so new interpretations and nuances… Read More Filosofy on Friday – Overview of thinking errors
Emotional Reasoning: We have reached the penultimate stage of our mystery tour of thinking errors in cognitive-behavioral therapy. Today we travel from the Minimalist Hotel where I dropped you off last week to the evocative Heartbreak Hotel, exploring on the way the undulating hills of Emotional Reasoning, from where you can get magnificent views of… Read More Filosofy on Friday – Emotional reasoning
Minimisation/Magnification: Today our mystery tour through the mysteries of cognitive distortions (also known as thinking errors and biased information processing within the terminology of cognitive-behavioral therapy) brings us to minimisation/magnification. I hope you enjoyed your week’s stay in the Hotel of Global Judgements – I hear the food was awful, so sorry about that (hey,… Read More Filosofy on Friday – Magnification and minimisation
Moral Imperatives: I should have started to write this post a lot sooner, rather than leaving it to the last minute. There is something I must share with you today. Professor Malaberry ought not to have been so critical of me last week. These are examples of moral imperatives. Statements that contain words such as… Read More Filosofy on Friday – Moral imperatives
Blogging 101 Day 2 Task 2 – try making changes to blog title and tagline to properly capture identity of self and blog. Oh, I found this difficult, and I’m not sure if I will stick with these changes – feedback most appreciated! My original title “Frothy Filosofy” made sense to me, hinting at a… Read More Making Changes
Blogging 101. Day 1. Task 1 – Introduce myself and my blog. Yes, I have signed up for another WordPress project! Some of you might already know a bit about me and this blog, so apologies for any repetitions. Hopefully I will be meeting some new people too. About Me I was very shy and… Read More Hello World – This is Me!
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