All things brain and human experience

Where structure meets flow
Just as the tall and unshakable mountains contain the free and ever-changing flow of the river, so do the brain’s structure and chemistry allow for the unbound and quite ineffable experiences of thoughts and sensations.
This blog is my attempt at putting that duality of the brain and mind into words, once again, employing the rules and structure of language to contain the authentic and sometimes chaotic expression of the self. Hope you find something in here worth your time! :D
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A Mall Bench and The Judgmental People (in My Head)
Is this a social experiment or a self-experiment? I am not really sure. Maybe I will function under the pretence that it is a social one, so that I can live with myself. But deep…
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Your Brain is on Weed (even if you have never smoked before)
Imagine being a brain scientist, or a pothead (or both) in the 1990’s, and waking up to this headline1: That is exactly what happened in December 1992, when the field reported two ground-breaking discoveries…
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To be “me” or not to be
I still find it hard (read impossible) to look at myself in the mirror in presence of another person. A part of me feels too ashamed to indulge in “self-admiration” (as if looking in a…