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The “Cartesian Split” Is a Hallucination; Ergo, We Should Get Rid of It by Jean F. Drew The Ancient Heritage of Western Science The history of science goes back at least two and a half millennia, to the pre-Socratics of ancient Greece. Democritus and Leucippus were the fathers of atomic theory — at least they were the first thinkers ever to formulate one. Heraclitus was the first thinker to consider what in the modern age developed as the laws of thermodynamics. Likewise Plato’s Chora, in the myth of the Demiurge (see Timaeus), may have been the very first anticipation of...

Randomized Instruction Sheets A set of 20 Randomized Instruction Sheets for use with these experiments is now available: Click here for html version If you want to print the sheets, click here for the pdf version You will require Acrobat Reader for the pdf version.   Introduction The feeling of being looked at from behind is remarkably common.   So is the experience of looking at someone from behind and finding that they turn round.  Surveys show that about 90% of the population have personally experienced these phenomena.  If people really can tell when they are being looked at...