AI Assistant
An AI Assistant profile is used to allow an AI Assistant to be better able to return to the thread on activation in order to understand better the context of the next action.
Lies and Lying
Lying
Lying Introduction Psychologically, lying can have several consequences, but they depend heavily on why the lie is told, how consequential it is, whether the person believes it is justified, whether it must be maintained, and whether it conflicts with their self-concept. One immediate consequence is cognitive load. A truthful account Read more
Human Thinking
What Is Intuition?
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
Human Thinking
What is Classical Conditioning?
This article explains Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
Human Thinking
What is Operant Conditioning?
This article introduces operant conditioning, a key part of our basic understanding of human behaviour and learning.
The Human Experience
How Can Anxiety Turn Into Fear?
This article explores the relationship between anxiety and fear. It explains how those two emotions work together to form part of a threat feedback loop, in order to inform not just about a particular threat, but also, its imminence.
What are Coping Responses?
What Are Defensive Responses?
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
Personal Multiplicity Theory
Schema Mask Theory: The Phenomenal Interface: What the User Actually Sees
Schema Mask Theory — Part III The Phenomenal Interface: What the User Actually Sees Abstract Part II of Schema Mask Theory used computer interfaces as a deliberately simplified model for examining communication across differentiated information systems. It showed that apparently simple access can require handshaking, capability discovery, authentication, authorisation, health Read more
What is Self-Mastery?
Ghosts as Phenomenal Projections
In this article I review my article on Jung’s commentary, regarding ghosts as possibly projections from the self. In then view this from a phenomenological and Hillmanian “universal soul” point of view, and in so doing I open an entirely new universe of possibilities.
Personal Multiplicity Theory
Plural Theory of Psychological Integration: Two Explanations of the Human Condition
A comparison of positions with regard to the Human Condition, between Jeremy Griffith and the Human Multiplicity Theory.