In the beginning of this semester, I was unsure how I felt about blogs. I hadn't really had much experience with them prior, aside from reading a few here and there. Now, though, I think I might just have to keep this blog running or start a new one.
I really like blogging, and it was a great idea to do it for AP Psychology!
It's absolutely beneficial! Here's how:
+ In this day and age, technology is becoming an ever more important part of our lives. It can absolutely be integrated into school and teaching to improve learning. Blogging helps break the ice - making students used to the idea that technology will soon be omnipresent - and lays out the skeleton for not only the rest of the years the class will be taught, but for integration of technology throughout our school (and, hopefully, everywhere else!)
+ It conserves paper.
+ In some cases, it promotes research and article-reading that wouldn't necessarily happen otherwise.
+ It stimulates and fosters learning - especially the weekly blogs in which we had to draw relations to what we were learning and our lives, personal experiences, or even other subjects. This is crucial and is, for me, the crux of using technology in school in the first place - it's NOT just to make things more convenient!
+ It fosters conversation, whether they are in-class or on blog posts themselves.
In short, I like blogging... and I feel that it should be kept in place as a part of AP Psychology for as long as possible. It would be even better if it spread into other subjects and classes, especially other AP ones!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Do I have a lack of selective attention or something? Damn it! I would much rather have a sub that DOESN'T talk (as opposed to one that talks on and on about banal crap!) when I'm trying to effing write AND read. I just can't tune it all out.
He keeps telling us to do our work (punctuated by being more off-topic), but he doesn't seem to realize that he's freaking enabling it! He was talking about how much Blink 182 "rocks" before. And now he's talking about how he'd name a puppy "Butcher".
Also, he seems to think he's an expert on history. Because he was totally alive when the Civil War happened, riiiiiiiiiiiiight!?
RAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG
Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Boom, baby.
How does consciousness caused/created/a product of/rise from neural and brain processes? How is that even possi--
Single-Neuron Theory of consciousness:
A contrasting model is outlined in the present paper that places the mind/brain interface not at the whole brain level but at the level of the single neuron.� Specifically, the model proposes that a single brain at any given moment harbors many separate conscious minds, each one assumed to be associated with the activity of a different individual neuron.� The model proposes, that is, that what is usually regarded as a person�s single conscious experience correlates not with an integrated neuronal network, but individually with single neurons that separately and redundantly encode the entire conscious content.� Consequently, at any given time, a multitude of conscious beings are assumed to be associated with a single person�s brain, all having identical or at least similar experiences.� Axonal outputs from multiple such neurons are then conjectured to summate, providing amplification of the message being emitted by any one of them.� The overall scheme is one in which conscious behavior, while appearing to be the product of a single macroscopic mind, is actually the result of the superposed output of a chorus of minds, each associated with a different individual neuron.
Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness: The electromagnetic energy generated by the brain *is* the conscious experience.
TBE, still, mayun.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robottheory/single-neuron_theory_of_consciousness.html
Single-Neuron Theory of consciousness:
A contrasting model is outlined in the present paper that places the mind/brain interface not at the whole brain level but at the level of the single neuron.� Specifically, the model proposes that a single brain at any given moment harbors many separate conscious minds, each one assumed to be associated with the activity of a different individual neuron.� The model proposes, that is, that what is usually regarded as a person�s single conscious experience correlates not with an integrated neuronal network, but individually with single neurons that separately and redundantly encode the entire conscious content.� Consequently, at any given time, a multitude of conscious beings are assumed to be associated with a single person�s brain, all having identical or at least similar experiences.� Axonal outputs from multiple such neurons are then conjectured to summate, providing amplification of the message being emitted by any one of them.� The overall scheme is one in which conscious behavior, while appearing to be the product of a single macroscopic mind, is actually the result of the superposed output of a chorus of minds, each associated with a different individual neuron.
Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness: The electromagnetic energy generated by the brain *is* the conscious experience.
TBE, still, mayun.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robottheory/single-neuron_theory_of_consciousness.html
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Mr. No-Name
This is absolutely not my weekly blog post, and it is definitely not number seven or something similar! It just looks, feels, smells, tastes, sounds, and sweats like it.
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Mr. Myers discussed sexual orientation in the chapter on motivation. He said some interesting things and made me cringe at some others. One of the cringe-worthy things that he seemed to be assuming or implying is that "gay"/"lesbian" == "homosexual", which is simultaneously absolutely not true and a huuuuuge pet peeve of mine. Anywhat, that's beside the point.
He discussed how homosexuality may be caused or influenced by prenatal, in-utero activity. In a way that is neither a "choice" nor necessarily due to genes(kind of defeating both arguments, hmm?). I think it was pretty much the mother's body inhibiting the development of typical male brain-patters, I do believe, which happens more the more often the mother spurts out male babies. It sort of gave reason to the really weird "if you have older brothers you're more likely to be homosexual" thing, too - why would that have a genetic influence and/or why would a male with older brothers be more likely to "choose" to be homosexual? And, for the other wheel, it creates a predisposition that draws more lines for the coloring book that nurture fills in. Maybe.
Maybe is a baby until you throw in a T-Shit a T-shirt and sunglasses and call it a fact.
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P.S. From Freudian perspective, is asexuality due to a fixation in the latency phase of psychosexual development?
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Mr. Myers discussed sexual orientation in the chapter on motivation. He said some interesting things and made me cringe at some others. One of the cringe-worthy things that he seemed to be assuming or implying is that "gay"/"lesbian" == "homosexual", which is simultaneously absolutely not true and a huuuuuge pet peeve of mine. Anywhat, that's beside the point.
He discussed how homosexuality may be caused or influenced by prenatal, in-utero activity. In a way that is neither a "choice" nor necessarily due to genes(kind of defeating both arguments, hmm?). I think it was pretty much the mother's body inhibiting the development of typical male brain-patters, I do believe, which happens more the more often the mother spurts out male babies. It sort of gave reason to the really weird "if you have older brothers you're more likely to be homosexual" thing, too - why would that have a genetic influence and/or why would a male with older brothers be more likely to "choose" to be homosexual? And, for the other wheel, it creates a predisposition that draws more lines for the coloring book that nurture fills in. Maybe.
Maybe is a baby until you throw in a T-Shit a T-shirt and sunglasses and call it a fact.
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P.S. From Freudian perspective, is asexuality due to a fixation in the latency phase of psychosexual development?
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