I. relational self  a. brain area peripheral nervous system & amygdala b. organ system (para)sympathetic nervous system and nose c. neurotransmitter(s) acetylcholine & (nor)epinephrine i. psychological construct(s) all interpersonal social psychological concepts/theories ii. emotional spectrum aggression-fear iii. diseases phobias,…

I. somatic awareness  a. brain area somatosensory/gustatory/motor cortices, hypothalamus, parietal lobe b. organ system skin and digestive c. neurotransmitter(s) opioid i. psychological construct(s) taste, temperature, psychophysics, mind-body connection ii. emotional spectrum warm/fuzzy-cold/sharp iii. diseases/disorders IBS, chronic pain, fever, hypothermia…

I. basic consciousness a. brain area brain stem & thalamus b. organ system circulatory/pulmonary & sense organs minus skin, nose and tongue c. neurotransmitter(s) GABA & glutamate i. psychological construct(s) mood (a la Thayer), attribution (judging co-occurrence & causality), affective…

According to Konrad Lorenz, animals and other living things evolved to more and more accurately learn about their environment and he classifies living things in terms of the way they gather information on their surroundings for different survival and mating…

I am not the first person to discuss how the concepts of space and time play into our psychology and socializing. There are many ways we engage with these concepts daily. But let’s start with what space and time in…

It has been argued by modern philosophers that there is no seat of consciousness, that consciousness cannot be located in any one part of the brain or nervous system, and that there is no miniature of us sitting in our…