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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Chicago police state, May 20, 2012. Top: Cops line the streets prior to the start of anti-NATO demonstration. Bottom: Protester bloodied by police baton. 

Photos: World Must Wake Up

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pipay:

Jason Mraz - I Won’t Give Up (Lyric Video) (by OfficialJasonMraz)

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And when you’re needing your space

To do some navigating

I’ll be here patiently waiting

To see what you find

‘Cause even the stars they burn

Some even fall to the earth

We’ve got a lot to learn

God knows we’re worth it

No, I won’t give up

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Sometimes, you do these silly things without knowing where they will leave you. Just feeling the urge to do them and hoping for the best turnout in every aspect of everything.

neuroticthought:

This is a fantastic review by Simon van Gaal, Floris Lange, and Michael Cohen of research done on consciousness and cognitive control. I highly recommend reading the whole thing (it’s free for anyone) but here is the conclusion:

In this article, we have reviewed recent studies that have focused on the complexity and strength of unconscious information processing in relation to cognitive control (e.g., response inhibition, conflict resolution, and task-switching), the life-time of information maintenance (e.g., working memory, recognition memory) and the possibility to integrate multiple pieces of information across space and time. Unconscious information has been shown to affect various perceptual and high-level cognitive functions and the associated brain areas, including prefrontal cortex. In some cases, unconscious information has been observed to affect behavior and brain activity for relatively long periods of time. Overall, these recent results highlight the power of unconscious information processing, going beyond specific expectations formulated in traditional theoretical models of consciousness and the cognitive functions thought to require consciousness.

Based on this, one can conclude that the potential function of consciousness might not be related to the initiation of cognitive control functions by specific stimuli that signal the need for increased control (e.g., stop-signals, task-switching cues). These cognitive control operations are probably triggered by a fast feedforward, and unconscious, early sweep of information processing that reaches even regions in the prefrontal cortex. This unconscious fast feedforward sweep can directly affect (the speed of) ongoing cognitive processes.

However, recent evidence also points out interesting dissociations between conscious and unconscious information processing when it comes to the duration, the flexibility, and the strategic use of information for complex operations and decision-making. Although recent evidence has clearly pushed the boundaries regarding the duration of unconscious effects, the general observation is that unconscious events are much less able to elicit (long-term) future behavioral adaptations than conscious events (e.g., post-error slowing, conflict adaptation). Why might this be the case? Theoretical models of consciousness suggest that conscious awareness is related to long-lasting recurrent interactions between (distant) brain regions. This might enable the exchange of information between several spatially separated cognitive modules, which seems to break the automaticity of information processing. Awareness might be beneficial for enabling flexible and durable information processing strategies that are not directly triggered by a specific stimulus, for example when information has to be integrated across longer periods of time to bias information acquisition or signal the need for performance adjustments suggested that awareness might be dispensable when cognitive control is signaled explicitly (by specific control-eliciting stimuli) but not when it has to be inferred implicitly (by the context, or history of events). This may prove to be a very useful and plausible distinction and needs further experimentation and exploration. Especially, the boundary conditions of implicitly signaled cognitive control are a promising avenue for future research and might clarify why unconsciously signaled (implicit) control operations are observed in some occasions but not in others.

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http://lilysinlabor.com/ Ohhh, so good, haha!

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The Pop Star Avengers

         - Haha, this is awesome.

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