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What's Your Personality Type?

I'm curious about other users on Current's personality types. If you want or... more

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The rebel in all of us + The Psychology of Revolution

Student protests, rioting, Psychology of Revolution, Twitter revolutions. . .... more

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Personality types...

Defensiveness comes from fears .... misunderstandings... everyone is different and if... more

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Psychopaths among us

Dr. Robert Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny... more

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What Do Your TV Choices Say About Your Personality?

According to psychographic ad targeter Mindset Media, the shows you chose to watch on... more

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Jennifer Sterger

Jennifer Sterger Brett Farve Scandal, If you don’t know about Jennifer Sterger... more

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Gordon Ramsay Dead

Gordon Ramsay is in the news for Joe Cerniglia Dead incident, Gordon Ramsay, the... more

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10 Signs You are Dealing with a Sociopath

If, after reading this list of sociopathic personality disorder signs, you think you... more

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Art and Mental Illness + Martín Ramírez gallery (all of his work was created inside a mental institution)

Swedish researchers believe they have uncovered a possible explanation for the link... more

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What do Great Tits Reveal about the Genetics of Personality?

A paper was just published that links a small change in the dopamine receptor D4 gene... more

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Cher's Son, Sonny Bono, Changes His Name

Maybe this could seem wired for many of you. But it seems it is quite comfortable for... more

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Current TV has employed me to work on their website since October 2007. Upon signing... more

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Ryan Seacrest Says Simon Is One of the Sweetest Guys You're Ever Going to Meet

What should we see as it turns out Ryan Seacrest has quite the spot for Simon Cowell?... more

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FLAME WARRIORS !

These are the Many faces of "the enemy",......."the OTHER",....... more

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What Does Your Email Address Say About Your Personality?

If you picked your own email address, your choice of hotnerd1337@fuzzer.com telegraphs... more

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Others may know us better than we know ourselves, study finds

(ScienceDaily:%20Latest%20Science%20News)&utm_content=Twitter A study shows... more

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48 clutter control tips matched to your personality

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The Science (Fiction) Of Embodied Cognition

Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities/minds/"souls" into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica. But how would it work in the real world?

That's what the science of "embodied cognition" is all about. The basic idea in this new(ish) research area (which overlaps with cognitive psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, and others) is this: Your mind is defined by your physical form. Not just in terms of "the mind is what the brain does"-we all are pretty down with that already. This takes it further to encompass the whole enchilada: your mind-your "I"-is a function of a cephalized, bipedal, plantigrade, bilaterally symmetrical body between 1.5 and 2 meters tall with two arms terminating in five-fingered hands with opposable thumbs, two lungs, a warm-blooded vascular system, mostly hairless skin, two front-focused eyes, etc. etc. Change any aspects of that physical configuration-in subtle or radical ways-and the mind will inevitably change too.

That might sound a bit "no shit, Sherlock" at first blush, but it's actually got profound implications about what it means to be recognizably human "on the inside." In fact, that very phrase might not even make sense. After all, there's no "little you" inside your body "looking out", Terminator-style. Your perceptions, actions and thoughts all feel direct, integrated, and grounded. You don't "drive" your body, you ARE it. So why do we still assume that we might take that "little man" out and plop him into a different body to "look out of", without any consequences?

Take Avatar. James Cameron stacked the deck by making the Na'Vi basically humanoid with a few cosmetic changes thrown in. Then again, the Na'Vi are twice as tall as humans, have longer arms, fewer fingers, have bigger, wider-set eyes, and ears that can move independently. Not to mention their prehensile plug-in-brain-tails, which add a major perceptual (and explicitly cognitive, given how the Na'Vi "jack in" to the mass Eywa consciousness) modality that has absolutely no analogue in the human body. What would all of that feel like? What would that think like? (Not human, that's for sure.) The point is that through the lens of embodied cognition, those questions are just two sides to the same coin.

Of course, Avatar doesn't go into any of that interesting territory; it sticks with the "Jake Sully can effortlessly interchange between bodies on the fly" approach. Granted, there is one minor scene showing Jake clumsily acclimating to his Na'Vi body-which makes sense, given that all his proprioperceptive expectations and instincts no longer apply. But it's more likely that the disorientation would be much more profound, and he probably would have needed some serious physical therapy before bounding off into the forest in his hospital gown. His mind, his literal sense of self, would need time to retune and retrofit itself to his new body. And the same thing would happen every time he jacked out of his Avatar body back into his human one. What kind of unpredictable effects would that stress have on his mind, his "I"?

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http://io9.com/5462883/the-science-fiction-of-embodied-cognitionScience fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified... more

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Left vs. Right

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3 Keys To Help You Live Your Life To Its Fullest

Your life is meant to be something great. At different times in your life you have... more

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