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It's the dopamine that gets you high late in the night: Dopamine, wakefulness, creativity and madness, all in one!

Science Daily has a very interesting research One Sleepless Night Increases Dopamine In The Human Brain The study reports Just one night without sleep can increase the amount of the chemical dopamine in the human brain, according to new im

Lotteries, poverty AND credit cards this time along with the proper social and scientific analysis :)

GeorgeLoewenstein Remember the article Lotteries, poverty and social implications? I found this article in Scientific American : Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain. It's an interview with the researcher who's work

Agent based models in social sciences

Lately I've been digging into the subject of agent based models of social sciences. Agent based models are defined by wikipedia as following An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonom

Is there any truth to pure computational models of social life?

First of all, I'm sorry for not having written for so long, but I am really busy. :-( Anyway, this time was not wasted, since I have passed a large part of my free time dealing with new ideas. These ideas revolve around computation and a possible fo

Encefalus

en·ceph·a·lon (n-sf-ln) n. pl. en·ceph·a·la (-l) The brain of a vertebrate. [Greek enkephalon, from neuter of enkephalos, in the head; see encephalo-.] Encephalon comes the greek enkep

Two simple computational models I created using NetLogo

As I had said in my previous post, I am very busy this time. Now, you are going to see why :-) Lately, I decided to learn more about computation models. This will probably be reseach focus in the upcoming years. I created two models, which I want to

Dealing with information overflow

Lately I have to deal with a lot of things in my life. So, I have been thinking about the relationship between information and the human cognitive system. How much information can we absord at a time? How can we filter the noise out of it and keep

Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram Lately I've been reading Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science. Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathemati

How a single neurotransmitter can provide the basis for the explanation of all social phenomena

Those of you who read this blog for sometime, already know some of my views concerning psychology. I am an avid supporter of "hard science". Science that is based on solid facts and follows the reductionist paradigm. Even though solid fac

Encefalus just had a serious case of ENCEFALITIS!!! Encefalitis blogzine issue 1!

Encefalitis is a blogzine, that is, a magazine composed of blog posts. I first thought about piecing together my posts together into a pdf file, so as to be able to classify them and find them easier. But later I discovered that this could make an e

Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society

I found this article which had been published in sunday times and written by Steven Pinker In defense of dangerous ideas It's was first published in the Edge where various scientists expressed their opinions on the subject. Here is the start of the

School sucks (you know it does!) and there's a reason why

There is a blog in Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn. Its author is Peter Gray. His resume is: "a research professor of psychology at Boston College, is a specialist in developmental and evolutionary psychology and author of an introduc

Everything is fuzzy ;-)

Lately I have started dabbling with fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. You'll probably start wondering what these are. I won't try to give you a definition, but rather I'll give you a few examples to help you understand yourself. I don't like the mat

A Shocking Discovery and the History Of Psychiatry

Providentia just released part 3 of A Shocking Discovery series describing the use of ECT throughout the history of psychiatry. It also includes a few remarks about antipsychiatry and closes with a very reasonable debate concerning the use of shock

Dangerous ideas revisited: Controversial books, swearing and other stuff

Those of you who read Encefalus, probably remember this article: Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society The reason I am mentioning this, is this article I found on the w

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It's the dopamine that gets you high late in the night: Dopamine, wakefulness, creativity and madness, all in one!

Lotteries, poverty AND credit cards this time along with the proper social and scientific analysis :)

Agent based models in social sciences

Is there any truth to pure computational models of social life?

Encefalus

Two simple computational models I created using NetLogo

Dealing with information overflow

Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics

How a single neurotransmitter can provide the basis for the explanation of all social phenomena

Encefalus just had a serious case of ENCEFALITIS!!! Encefalitis blogzine issue 1!

Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society

School sucks (you know it does!) and there's a reason why

Everything is fuzzy ;-)

A Shocking Discovery and the History Of Psychiatry

Dangerous ideas revisited: Controversial books, swearing and other stuff

Please support my other projects and pay them a little visit :-)

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