The Composite Human

• The Modern Human?: Rewiring a Microwave into a Radio

  Humans: we’re not made like we used to be. While we’ve adapted to sitting 8+ hours a day and shopping for food instead of hunting, I can’t help but imagine there are consequences. For abandoning our biological hardware plans, for retooling ourselves into something evolution had no say in. Our bodies benefit from exercise, but…

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  Jamal H. Goodwin Jr.

  Jul 14, 2024

  Biology, Change, Culture, Evolution, Exercise, Generations, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Science, Sedentary, Society, Technology

• Word Choice in Our Brains – Revisited

  *A Continuation of This Post from 2/11/24* Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: the word “Montezuma” just popped into my head. I have no idea why. I was standing in my bedroom, looking at my TV, bed, desk, and plant, and amidst this looking, the word “Montezuma,” followed by the phrase “Montezuma’s corpse,”…

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  Jamal H. Goodwin Jr.

  Mar 10, 2024

  Bizarre, Consciousness, Curiosity, Default Mode Network, DMN, Free Will, Habit, Identity, Inner Monologue, Language, Linguistics, Memory, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Randomness, Science, Subconscious, Thoughts, Word Choice

• Location is Memory

  Location is memory. When you move to a new home, your routines change, and you lose the daily rituals you once saw a common and never thought much about. These rituals, the memories, they soon fade, only to be recalled on occasion. People are memory too. Our daily rituals of how we used to interact…

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  Jamal H. Goodwin Jr.

  Mar 3, 2024

  Art, Beauty, Free Will, Identity, Journaling, Memory, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Poetic, Prose, Rituals, Thoughts

• The Third Hand

  If the mind is the third hand, it is also the most active. How often does it lay on a table or rest within the pockets of pants? Seldom. It is always reaching, always working, for better or for worse. Negativity could be seen as a cloud that rises from the brain’s depths and hovers…

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  Jamal H. Goodwin Jr.

  Feb 25, 2024

  Art, Beauty, Free Will, Identity, Metaphor, Philosophy, Poetic, Prose

• Therapy Doesn’t Exist in The Wild

  Therapy doesn’t exist in the wild, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be helpful. In the PBS Nature documentary, Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La, one of the fathers in a troupe of snub-nosed monkeys is killed by a wandering bachelor monkey who steals his mate; the father’s son is ousted by the family, and the mother…

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  Jamal H. Goodwin Jr.

  Feb 18, 2024

  Animal Behavior, Animal Psychology, animals, Curiosity, Documentary, EMDR, Emotions, Family, Instinct, Monkeys, Nature, PBS, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, The Wild, Therapy, Trauma, What if, Wild, Wilderness

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