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Phantoms in the Brain
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Engaging the Spiritual Intelligence of Gifted Students to Build Global Awareness in the Classroom
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce individuals providing training in higher consciousness and present examples of strategies to further develop the spiritual intelligence of gifted students, such as exploring existential questions, service-learning, and moral dilemmas.
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Is integer arithmetic fundamental to mental processing?: the mind's secret arithmetic
Allan A Snyder,D. John Mitchell +1 more
TL;DR: This provocative hypothesis that the mental machinery for performing lightning–fast integer arithmetic calculations could be within us all even though it cannot be readily accessed is led by analysing the extraordinary skills of autistic savants.
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Bottom-Up or Top-Down? Campbell's Rationalist Account of Monothematic Delusions
Tim Bayne,Elisabeth Pacherie +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that neither Campbell's attack on empiricism nor his rationalist alternative to empiricism is successful, and propose a rationalist account of monothematic delusions, according to which delusional beliefs are understood as Wittgensteinian framework propositions.
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The evolution of cognition—a hypothesis
TL;DR: It is shown that a reactive system with the ability to control a body of complex geometry requires only a slight reorganization to form a cognitive system, and implies that the assumption that the evolution of cognitive properties requires the introduction of new, additional modules, namely internal world models, is not justified.