Eat a Big Mac. Lose your mind. Is there a link between eating fast food and Alzheimer’s? Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, believes she has found the cause-and-effect for that behavioral disease.
Continue reading → Fast Food Forgetfulness and the Poverty of Memory Loss
How do we remember? Is there an inherent danger is misremembering? If we learn by thinking, is the preserved result of that process our saved memories?
Why are we obsessed with playing with our brains? Is it because we understand the least about our thought processes and that unknown threatens us? Does God live in the mind? If we puncture the blood-brain barrier, have we finally captured the magic behind the red velvet rope line?
Continue reading → A Semiotic History of Playing with Brains
We know a promise only lives as long as the one making the promise, and today we must confess that no idea is forever.
Do we create our thoughts? If we create them, do we own them? The United States Army is working on new “thought helmets” where “thought synthesis” between soldiers will be immediate an unspoken.
Continue reading → Panopticonic Thought and Military Thinking
As we are swallowed by the technology we create, we are losing our emotional tether to history as human memory is mechanized into the ether of our invisible material world.
Many authors are taught to write in the now and to write in the moment — and while that idea is good and fine — it does not always allow for introspection from the distance of time.
If we write from memory, instead of from the moment, we immediately enrich our lives, and the experience for the reader, because wisdom and yearning are embedded in the word.
Memes and their memories create shared intelligence.
Memory imbues intellect and emotion belies meaning.
Memory leads us onto paths we share, but have yet to discover, while emotion — made of fuzziness and heartache — confuses and misleads us by bending light.
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