So far, the explanation for dreams which resonated most for me came from Anil Seth's book Being You. The overall thesis of the book is that our conscious experiences are really predictions about the world around us which are updated based on input from our senses. Dreams, then, are what happens when the predictive aspect is decoupled from sensory corrections. Thus our dreams contain elements from our actual experiences but unconstrained by the need to correspond to anything, even themselves moment-to-moment. That … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Dreaming in the Academic Clouds
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Disruptions to Campus Ministry – Past, Present, Future
At the Faith on Campus blog, campus minister Steve Lutz outlines Four Disruptions That Could Shake Up Campus Ministry. It's a good list that matches research I did earlier this year on trends in higher education. Steve's list, however, led me to thinking about disruptions that have already taken place in higher education and how they have affected campus ministry. My father and I graduated college about 40 years apart - he with a Bachelors in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa, I with a BA in English … [Read more...] about Disruptions to Campus Ministry – Past, Present, Future