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Bruce Hood

Bruce Hood Biography

University Professor

Bruce Hood is a renowned university professor specializing in psychology and cognitive science. His specific birth and death dates are unknown.

Bruce Hood is a renowned university professor specializing in psychology and cognitive science. His specific birth and death dates are unknown.

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“Defaulting to the self in explanations of human behavior enables us to draw an abrupt stop in the chain of causality when trying to understand thoughts and actions.”

Self Free Will Determinism

Author:Bruce Hood

“Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.”

Space Series Complexes Simplicity Wave Patterns Various Familiar Explanation Multiple Frequency Theorems Overlapping Fourier

Author:Bruce Hood

“Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Self Whole Stories Memories Happened Events Illusion Photograph Committed Albums Opening Episodes Recalls Examining Snapshots

Book:The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

Source: The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

“As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.”

Thinking Should Ends Universe Worry Committed Irrelevant Solar System Entropy

Author:Bruce Hood

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