People we associate with and our relationships with them are based on perceived assumptions and expectations. We get involved in experimentation of real and imagined; real and fancy; and real and make ...

Perception is your reality, but not necessarily THE reality! Or, said differently: What we believe to be true isn’t always the truth. On June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth), the last of the slaves in the USA ...

Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist who spent three years during World War II living under unspeakable circumstances in several of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. While imprisoned, ...

As neural networks become more powerful, their view of the world is converging rather than diverging. Now computer scientists think they know why. Plato’s Theory of Forms addresses the question of how ...

“And in today’s weather forecast, expect sunny skies with temperatures of 28 degrees Celsius, but it’ll feel like 31.” Have you ever watched the weather forecast and heard the reporter tell you that ...

Liked. Disliked. Empowering. Disempowering. Engaging. Disengaging. Open. Closed. Humble. Arrogant. These are not just opposites. These are paradoxes. These are ...

How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

The World Bank has described corruption as ‘the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development.” The prospects of attracting foreign investment depends on cultivating perceptions of a ...

The mind then processes and applies meaning to the sensory information. “I want to start with a game,” says neuroscientist and artist Beau Lotto at the outset of his TED talk on perception. “To win ...