Posts

Showing posts from December, 2020

Dog's Neuroscience

What it's like to be a dog?  What are dogs thinking? Neuroscientist Gregory Berns research in his book  How dogs love us  Dog's brain, mainly by using MRI and brain-imaging. MRI works by sending in a blast of radio waves that excite atoms ( mostly Hydrogen) Dogs have been with humans for a long time - almost 27,000 years. Dogs and "modern-wolfs" share a "wolf-dog" descendant. It's very difficult to understand what dogs are thinking since humans have a strong tendency to anthropomorphize and project their own minds. Historically, Charles Darwin also paid major concern towards dogs, for their rich expression of emotions - He argued that dogs and humans also share evolutionary descendant, and perhaps through dogs we can understand some of our complex emotions. "The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs." - Nietzche Nietzche was talking about humans who are similar to dogs. But hum...

Passage in time

What is 'Individual Psychology'? Who is Alfred Adler? Adler (1870-1937) is an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and the founder of Individual psychology. His emphasis was on the Inferiority and Superiority complex. In  Understanding Life , Adler presents individual psychology and his science of living. Alfred Adler is a genius, a man ahead of his time - However, his exaggerated advocation of social utility, leaves a bitter taste of herd thinking and slave morality. Individual Psychology is a system through which people can be understood. Regards the individual as a whole. Who people become. All behavior(thinking, feelings, actions..) is seen as purposeful. Individual psychology is in fact social psychology. Individual life is expressed in a transaction - a progression - from a past(state of inferiority) towards a future(state of superiority) striving towards a goal. The beginning of social life lies in the weakness of the individual. To live in groups, the combined po...