Be aware of your thoughts

Have you ever thought about the fact that there is never a moment when you are not thinking—that whatever happens in this world begins with a thought? Here are five simple steps to help you manage your thoughts and achieve success and happiness in life.

By Anil Bhatnagar (Life Positive)

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Language may be key to theory of mind

How blind and deaf people approach a cognitive test regarded as a milestone in human development has provided clues to how we deduce what others are thinking.

“Hearing language is particularly important for understanding others, while other kinds of experience, such as the visual modality, are less important,” says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

By Anil Ananthaswamy (New Scientist)

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Can Brain Scans Read Your Mind?

Can neuroscience read people’s minds? Some researchers, and some new businesses, are banking on a brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal hidden thoughts, such as lies, truths or deep desires.

New research by neuroscientists at UCLA and Rutgers University provides evidence that fMRI can be used in certain circumstances to determine what a person is thinking. At the same time, the research suggests that highly accurate “mind reading” using fMRI is still far from reality. The research is scheduled to be published in the October 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science.

By Lockergnome

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Mind over matter as scientists use brainpower to make wishes come true

From the Hollywood film Firefox to the television show Heroes, science fiction writers have always dreamt of the day when humans could control machines with the power of thought alone.

Now British scientists are turning the vision into reality with a device that allows objects to be manipulated with brain waves.

The prototype, developed at Essex University, can already be used to play simple computer games. By imagining a movement, the wearer of the hat-shaped device can tell the computer to move an object around a screen or a robot around a room.

The researchers hope their technology will eventually allow people to move wheelchairs and drive cars with their thoughts.

By Richard Gray (Telegraph.co.uk)

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Our Mind Electric?

Are our thoughts made of electricity? Not the familiar kind of electrical signals that travel up and down wires in our computer or nerves in our brain, but the distributed kind of electromagnetic field that permeates space and carries the broadcast signal to the TV or radio.

By Liezel Tipper (Innovations Report)

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Can a machine read your mind?

It sounds like science fiction, but politicians, lawyers and advertisers are falling over themselves to buy into the latest scientific discovery: brainjacking. Soon our secret desires and not so innocent thoughts could become public knowledge.

Across the world, scientists are using this kind of technology to prise open our minds, to fathom our voting preferences, our guilty thoughts, our shopping desires, even the words we are thinking. Already their activities are stealthily changing our world.

By John Naish (Times Online)

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How Technology May Soon “Read” Your Mind

How often have you wondered what your spouse is really thinking? Or your boss? Or the guy sitting across from you on the bus? We all take as a given that we’ll never really know for sure. The content of our thoughts is our own – private, secret, and unknowable by anyone else. Until now, that is.

By CBS

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Reading Your Mind

Interesting Video by 60 minutes:

Neuroscience has learned much about the brain’s activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person’s mind.

By CBS News Video

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Our Conscious Mind Could Be An Electromagnetic Field

Are our thoughts made of the distributed kind of electromagnetic field that permeates space and carries the broadcast signal to the TV or radio.

Professor Johnjoe McFadden from the School of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK believes our conscious mind could be an electromagnetic field.

By UniSci

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Is all of reality simply perception?

Originally this article was going to be titled, “life is what you make it”. However, I decided to phrase this as a question because I am unsure if life really is what you make it.

I’d like to think it is…

I’ve witnessed the power of positive thinking first hand. I have seen how labels separate and draw people together. I have seen how long held beliefs destroy people and build them up.  And I have seen how ideas of right and wrong influence people’s decisions.

By Jeremy Day (Insight Writer)

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Microsoft mind reading

Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too.

The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. “Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” the company says.

By New Scientist

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The mind reading machine

Boffins have discovered a way to read minds – using a hospital scanner, it was revealed yesterday.

And they claim they could invent a machine to see into our thoughts within ten years.

By Emma Morton (The Sun)

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A step closer to reading the mind

Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone’s thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing.

The hippocampus is widely known to be integral to

memory, but researchers say they now see just how images are stored and recalled in this part of the brain.

By (BBC News)

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The Cognitive Revolution: Integrating Computers & the Human Mind

Imagine a world where machines know you on a personal level. By modeling a virtual “you” into their programming—including how you think and your expertise on a subject—it would know just how to accommodate your particular preferences. It’s the kind of world where your car understands how you drive and compensates for your weaknesses, and where your home computer knows not to greet you too cheerfully when you’re having a bad day.

By Rebecca Sato (The Daily Galaxy)

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Thought Power – Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

Thought power is the key to creating your reality. Everything you perceive in the physical world has its origin in the invisible, inner world of your thoughts and beliefs. To become the master of your destiny, you must learn to control the nature of your dominant, habitual thoughts. By doing so you will be able to attract into your life anything you choose with exact precision as you come to know the Truth that your thoughts create your reality.

By Tania Kotsos (Mind Your Reality)

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Mental Illness: Is it Mind over Matter?

In many respects, mental illness can be overcome with a concerted effort that applies the mind to the task of creating change. The problem for most is they feel overwhelmed by and completely identify with whatever condition has been applied to their particular problem. Does this mean you’ve been diagnosed incorrectly? Not necessarily. It means you have more power over creating change than you might otherwise believe.

By leedman (One man can make a difference)

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Life’s Signpost

Got Hope?

A lady at work gave me a book about how Spirit can communicate with us as individuals. It opened a new awareness for me as a person in reading this book. It is a book I normally would not have picked up. It gave a psychics view of her life and how Spirit was always trying to get our attention through the smallest things in life.

D. Scott Arant (Authorsden)

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Do Past and Future Really Exist?

As every second ticks away, with every event that we experience, it turns into past, a moment that once was, but no longer exists. It is scientifically proven that memory is stored in the brain and that what we remember only encompasses around the average of eight percent of what we experience.

By Stacey T Pollock (Creation Theory Revised)

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My Son Might be Psychic

Thoughts on some curious psychic occurrences from my teenage years, sparked when my child spoke aloud exactly what I was thinking at that very moment while we were walking to school the other day.

By thestickman (Triond)

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