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"A human being is a deciding being," Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," which sold more than 10 million copies. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology Via Dimitris Agorastos 
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Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying close attention to what it is like to be ourselves in the world.
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For all the progress physics has made in the last 100 or so years, it has not provided an answer to the free will question. Even quantum indeterminacy does not entirely kill off determinism. Quantum effects take place at tiny scales and whether they can affect the macroscopic world in a meaningful way is debatable. And as Conway has pointed out, there's always the possibility that we live in a "second time around Universe". The first time around, quantum events may have been random and peoples' choices may have been free, but if we live in a replay, then everything happens in a totally determined fashion. "In the end a completely deterministic world is not incompatible with quantum mechanics," says Zeilinger. "I would say either way is basically speculation, the claim that things are deterministic is speculation and the rest too. This simply is a wide open question."
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Letting go of inhibitions: Learning to draw from a four-year-old.
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Although use of the internet has been credited with helping spur democratic revolutions in the Arab world and elsewhere, a new multinational study suggests the internet is most likely to play a role only in specific situations.
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What’s actually going on in the mind of an alcoholic as he or she goes through the process of recovery? What are the cognitive mechanics underlying the initial, angry rebelliousness and, later, the genuine commitment to a sober life?
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Dr. Nicholas Christakis is known for his research on the social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. In his lecture "If You’re So Free, Why Do You Follow Others? The Sociology and Science Behind Social Networks," part of Floating University's Great Big Ideas course, Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures. Whether you’re absorbing altruism performed by someone you’ll never meet or deciding to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, collective phenomena affect every aspect of your life.
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From London to the Middle East riots have shaken political stability. Are the answers to be found in human nature?
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