Followings are some of the questions I spent most of my time, contemplating, reading, watching when I am not working on engineering/techy stuffs. These are more for myself not to forget about the thread of my thought. Just in case there is somebody who is seeking to have the answer to the same questions.. or have interests in the similar topics in this page, just try to use these as a kind of keywords to search more information in your search engine. I am also using this page as a keyword finder for further search. Now as I get older, I found myself more absent-minded. My brain require more frequent 'refresh' or sometimes 'rebooting' :)
- Am I really different from other animal ? (Is human different from Animal)
- Why I am thinking and acting like this ?
- How my brain process and organize the information ?
- What motivates me to do what I am doing now ?
- Does what motivates me motivate others as well ?
- Who can be taken as a Genius ? What makes a Genius ?
- Does a Genius think differently than I do ?
- Am I (or my company, my country) inferier or superior than others ?
- What is the origin of violence ? What make people violent ?
- Can we see any violence in animal kingdom (non-human) which is not provoked by the limitted biological resources (e.g, food, mate, teritories etc) ?
- What is the origin of Nation/State ?
- What is the origin of Politics ?
- Why are we impressed by Arts ? by Education ? or by some 'absolute artistic criterial' ? or just by novelty ?
- Is Competition good or bad ?
- Can we avoid Competition ?
- Is our world always deterministic and predictable ?
- Is there any psychological or biological background for religious mind ?
- Is there any individual difference in religious tendancy in biology/psychology ?
- Is a culture unique to human ?
- How is a culture formed and propagated ?
- What is conciousness ? How is it formed ? Is it unique to human ?
- What is Intelligence ? How it is formed / worked ?
- Is Intelligence unique to human ?
- Can I think/analyze especially 'abstract' issues without confirmation bias ?
- Why such a good person in public do such a bad thing (evil thing) in a certain situation ?
- Why such a good person in private context (e.g, in person or in family) do such a bad thing (evil thing) in a certain situation ?
- Why I think/act differently as an individual and as a participants in a group (organization, company etc) ?
Here goes the list of great minds and fun topics for me.
- Richard Dawkins
- Robert Sapolsky
- Desmond Morris
- Jane Goodall
- Philip G. Zimbardo
- Hannah Arendt
- John von Neumann
- John Forbes Nash
- George Orwell
- Karl Popper
- Thomas Kuhn
- Maslow
- Jared Diamond
- Steven Pinker
- Daniel Goleman
- Francis Fukuyama
- Noam Chomsky
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl Jung
- B.F Skinner
- M.C. Escher
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Jackson Pollock
- Rene Magritte
- Salvdor Dali
- Brain Science
- Origin of Human
- Animal Behavior
- Chaos/Fractal
- About Genius
- Psychology of Motivation
- Origin/Psychology of Religion
- Game Theory
Richard Dawkins
Robert Sapolsky
- Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
- Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche
- Aggression I
- Aggression II
- Chaos and Reductionism
Desmond Morris
- The Naked Ape
- The Human Animal Ep. 1 - Language In The Body
- The Human Animal Ep. 2 - The Hunting Ape
- The Human Animal Ep. 3 - The Human Zoo
- The Human Animal Ep. 4 - The Biology of Love
- The Human Animal Ep. 5 - The Immortal Genes
- The Human Animal Ep. 6 - Beyond Survival
Jane Goodall
Philip G. Zimbardo
- Standford Experiment of Prison
- The psychology of evil
- Luciffer Effect
- The Psychology of Evil: The Lucifer Effect in Action
Hannah Arendt
John von Neumann
John Forbes Nash
George Orwell
- 1984
- Animal Farm
Karl Popper
Thomas Kuhn
Maslow
Jared Diamond
Steven Pinker
- Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
- The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE (OFFICIAL) - (Part 1/2)
- The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE (OFFICIAL) - (Part 2/2)
Daniel Goleman
Francis Fukuyama
Noam Chomsky
- Syntactic Structure
- Generative Grammer
Sigmund Freud
- The Interpretation of Dreams
Carl Jung
B.F Skinner
- About Behaviorism
- Walden Two
M.C. Escher
Wassily Kandinsky
Jackson Pollock
Rene Magritte
Salvdor Dali
Brain Science
- BioInteractive.org (web site)
- The Human Brain
- THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN - THE ADULT BRAIN
- Secrets of The Human Brain
- Intelligence : Documentary on the Limits and Possibilities of the Human Brain
- The Human Mind
- NOVA scienceNOW : 1 - Mirror Neurons
- Hypothalamus and Limbic System - UBC Flexible Learning
- Emotions: Limbic System
- What is Cognitive Science?
- Dopamine: Motivation, Salience and Learning - A Genetic Perspective
- Human Consciousness BBC Documentary Mind Science
- Architects of the Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain Full Program
- BBC Horizon 2008 How Does Your Memory Work
- The Mystery of Memory, Documentary
- The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire
- Memories are Made of This
- Building Brains: The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits
- Octopus Brains
- A demonstration of an octopus learning through observation
- Octopus learns to recognize symbols
Origin of Human
- Ape To Man
- Becoming Human Documentary
- Homo Sapiens - The Birth of Humanity
- From Fish to Man : Documentary on the Evolution of Fish to Modern Humans
- The Incredible Human Journey -Episode 1 - Out of Africa
- The Incredible Human Journey - Episode 2 - Asia
- The Incredible Human Journey - Episode 3 - Europe
- The Incredible Human Journey - Episode 4 - Australia
- The Incredible Human Journey - Episode 5 - The Americas
- Human Evolution
Animal Behavior
- The Cultured Ape (Part 1 of 6)
- The Cultured Ape (Part 2 of 6)
- The Cultured Ape (Part 3 of 6)
- The Cultured Ape (Part 4 of 6)
- The Cultured Ape (Part 5 of 6)
- The Cultured Ape (Part 6 of 6)
- The World's Most Smartest Animals
- Ultimate Wildlife: Animal Intelligence
Chaos/Fractal
- The Mathematics of Chaos
- Chaos and Reductionism
- The Strange New Science of Chaos
- Fractals - Hunting The Hidden Dimension
About Genius
- The Common Character Trait of Geniuses
- The One Trait Every Genius Possesses
- Gifted Intelligence: 6 Characteristics That Prove You're A Genius
- The Worlds Cleverest Child And Me - Part 1
- The Worlds Cleverest Child And Me - Part 2
Psychology of Motivation
- The Psychology of Self-Motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech
- Psychology of Motivation
- Psychology 101 Psychological Theories of Motivation
- Motivation and Emotion: theories
Origin/Psychology of Religion
Game Theory