We live in a world that is not only moving forward, but accelerating, accelerating in fact at a greater rate seemingly each decade. Our collective global desire to have more, move faster and achieve more success in a shorter amount of time can be regarded as startling when drawn against the backdrop of all of human history prior to the dawn of The World Wars and the burgeoning Nuclear Age.
The brain has several processes that seem independent of each other, such as listening and speaking; to take two instances of skills that despite seemingly inter-related are actually performed in separate areas of the brain. Similar conclusions can be drawn about multiple different skills that humans possess – mental ones such as mathematics, music and language, as well as physical skills of dancing or athletics. From observational inferences and deductive reasoning we can reasonably reach the conclusion that higher IQ has a good correlation with higher power of comprehension. The question that this paper would like to address is that of how this comprehension power actually works and how it is related to the powers of abstract pattern recognition which most of the IQ tests measure. It would also like to develop some sort of a theoretical model that could explain how the comprehension actually works inside the brain, which can bear out the observations that are seen in the actual world.
The Smile of The Cheshire Cat: Splicing The Split Mind
Contributed by Eyitemi Joseph Egwuenu
Sunday, 09 September 2007
When the Cheshire cat, in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland gradually disappeared, nothing was left of it except a smile – a most enigmatic smile. It is left to the observer to determine if this smile was there to reassure us as we plumb the mysteries in the science of life and living or to grin mischievously at our ignorance and mock our efforts.
Schizophrenia is just as enigmatic as the eery smile of the Cheshire cat. Schizophrenia is a psychosis; it is a psychiatric condition which describes a form of mental illness in which there is a distortion of how reality is perceived and/or expressed. This distortion, takes the form of a disorganization of thought, hallucinations and delusions.
Psychology 
We live in a world that is not only moving forward, but accelerating, accelerating in fact at a greater rate seemingly each decade. Our collective global desire to have more, move faster and achieve more success in a shorter amount of time can be regarded as startling when drawn against the backdrop of all of human history prior to the dawn of The World Wars and the burgeoning Nuclear Age.
