Psychology

Was consciousness invented at the Bronze Age collapse?

The ideas in The Origins of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes are both complete rubbish and a work of genius

Oct 16, 2025 • Tove K

An anti-education book review

School is unnatural. That is a three word summary of David Lancy’s book Learning Without Lessons

Oct 6, 2025 • Tove K

The Madness Taboo

For political reasons, psychiatry is doing its best to deny the existence of high-functioning madness

Sep 16, 2025 • Tove K

Keeping my religion

When everybody is entitled to choose their own moral principles, raising a family with more than one child can be impossibly difficult.

Apr 26, 2025 • Tove K

Civilization was built on madness

Delusions created religion. Religion created civilization.

Apr 1, 2025 • Tove K

The game: How delusions can make people excellent players

Part 1 in an article series on the evolution of madness

Mar 18, 2025 • Tove K

Guest post: The Global IQ Debate: A Modest Contribution From A Resident African

What is it like to live in a society with an estimated median IQ around 70? A Nigerian psychologist explains.

Feb 8, 2025 • Tove K and Charlatan

When will psychiatry invent the barcode?

A vision of how to solve psychiatry’s taxonomy problem

Dec 4, 2024 • Tove K

The opportunity theory of depression

Depression evolved as a way to reduce risk in environments lacking good opportunities

Nov 28, 2024 • Tove K

The Anti-Autism Manifesto

I'm not disabled. I just have a personality.

Nov 15, 2024 • Tove K

Tyranny of the social

Social people act as gatekeepers to society, colluding against less social but more competent people

Jul 1, 2024 • Tove K

Social engineering: Why a technical mindset is a prosocial mindset

Humans have evolved to sometimes work and sometimes make war. That division has been imprinted in our social psychology.

May 14, 2024 • Tove K

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