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Happiness as an Emergent Property
Try subtracting stuff from your daily life
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Quotes from Vincent van Gogh
From "The Letters of Vincent van Gogh"
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
My praise of and troubling question for psychiatry
A knife that cuts both ways
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
This summer I visited this city where people were happy
Happiness has its shadow as well
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Why do some people freeze up when you talk to them?
Physiology of "fight or flight" response
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.

March 2024

Mystery of Consciousness Continues to Baffle Me
A look at Anil Seth and Donald Hoffman's approaches
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Must a Complicated Life be Complex?
They are not the same
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The Evolutionary Advantage of Feelings
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." - Julian Barnes, The Sense…
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Why Do We Procrastinate?
4 Workaround Solutions that (May) Work
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.

February 2024

February 2023

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