tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51225523583736368822011-11-28T02:28:47.560+02:00for·mi·ca·tion (noun)- "a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin." A blog relating to man and society, dealing with cognitive science, how the mind works, how people work in groups and the concept of life in generalformikationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563709466904917530noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122552358373636882.post-64548047985118010922008-09-23T17:04:00.011+02:002008-09-26T10:26:43.073+02:00

Below is a response I typed up to an email about conspiracy theories:I have a problem with most so called "conspiracy theories" and their relatives, mostly because they all assign intentional causality to events i.e. they assume that events have been orchestrated and planned by some form of illuminati or lizard people. While I don't always dispute that events happen the way they do and that they

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Steven Pinker wrote an article on morality for the New York Times in January this year, called The Moral Instinct. It's a great summary of how morals and ethics could have evolved from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective. I bring it up now, because it has been sitting in the back of my mind ever since I read it at the beginning of the year. Morals represent one of the remaining "strongholds"

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digg_url = 'http://formikation.blogspot.com/2008/09/understanding-our-minds-fear-as-example.html';In my last post, I made mention of how some people's lives are ruled by fear. I briefly talked about how their (and everyone elses') choices are made without rationally weighing up the reality of the situation. Obviously, I am not advocating that humans should aspire to being purely rational beings,

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A friend sent through a list of 12 questions that had been sent to him by a "religious girl" in his office. I think the questions are designed to lead a non-believer on a logical progression that ends with the reader having to accept the religious person's argument. I saw these questions and I couldn't help but respond, if only because I have never fully articulated my own views before. So here

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Carl Sagan was a great mind that gave much to the world and we are poorer without him. I'm going to reproduce his amazingly succinct and insightful essay on marijuana here. He wrote this back in 1969 under a psuedonym as he wanted to avoid being persecuted for what he said. I reproduce it because I had such a difficult time finding it online myself. In effect, I am preserving it for posterity's

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I'm a 24 year old market research consultant living in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. Contrary to the popular First World stereotypes, I am white/Caucasian and speak [the Queen's] English.Now that I have managed to hook up my pet monkey to the treadmill out back, I have enough power to surf the intraweb. Someone was telling me that the intraweb is a series of tubes, and the reason why it's so

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What would you have done if you had been given the absolute power of life and death over every person in the known world? In 1976, the founder and publisher of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione, prolific American author, Gore Vidal, and acclaimed Italian director, Tinto Brass, set out to explore this concept and in the process, expand the sensibilities of the cinema-going public. In the wake of

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for·mi·ca·tion– noun a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.- hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines[from Dictionary.com]No, I have not decided to jump on the bandwagon so much as I have decided that I need a creative outlet. I hope to 

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