Monday, March 05, 2007

Fascinating Rhythm

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This is the title of a review in Nature Magazine by Mayank Mehta of "Rhythms of the Brain" ( György Buzsáki, Oxford University P...

Jaron Lanier on transforming communication...

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Some clips from his essay : One extravagant idea is that the nature of communication itself might transform in the future as much as it did ...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Would you like to be an experimental subject?

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Check out the Visual Cognition Online Laboratory .

Why I am in Fort Lauderdale...

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The house back in Madison Wisconsin:

From my porch...

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A friend of mine has suggested that I might increase the ratio of visual images to text in this blog, as well as lighten up its tone by thr...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Attentional deficit overcome by fearful body language stimulus

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Tamietto et al report in J. Cog. Neurosci. the interesting observation that patients having right parietal lobe damage which makes them in...

A neuroethics website

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'Neuroethics' is the ethics of neuroscience, analogous to the term 'bioethics' which denotes the ethics of biomedical scienc...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

Virtual Living - Is this scary, or what???

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Here is a followup on a New York Times article by David Pogue on the Second Life phenomenon. I downloaded and tried the game, and soon fle...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Brain-o-vision - Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?

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I want to pass on this stimulating Nature review by Daniel Wegner of "Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?", Pockett, Banks, and Gal...

Breakdown can be a positive development.

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Michael Wolff, columnist for Vanity Fair, offers this paragraph on the joys of failing enterprises: "The good news where I come from, a...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

A new description of our inner lives....

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I rarely mention my internal experience and sensations on this blog - first, because I have viewed readers as "wanting the beef," ...

Neuroscience will change society

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Interesting reflections by Marco Iacoboni , one of the discoverers of mirror neurons , which have been mentioned a number of times in this b...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Planning for the future is not uniquely human, Scrub Jays do it!

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It is commonly believed that planning for the future is a skill unique to humans. Raby and colleagues now present experiments with western...

Future discoveries: illusions of order versus stochastic science.

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Nassim Taleb on future discoveries: "...we are victims of the narrative fallacy — even in scientific research ...The pattern-seeking, ...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Social Networks - the twenty-first century science?

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Duncan Watts suggests ( Nature 445, 489; 1 February 2007 ) that "If handled appropriately, data about Internet-based communication and ...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Steven Kosslyn on increasing human intelligence:

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I think this brief essay is worth reproducing here: "I am optimistic that human intelligence can be increased, and can be increased dr...
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Most popular consciousness articles for January

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From the monthy report of downloads from the archive maintained by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) the ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Are ideas like food and sex?

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"Does human creativity stem from a process that turns arbitrary ideas into goals like food and sex?" ..asks Andy Clark, in his rev...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Collective minds - Higher order computation?

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From the Editor's summary and Couzin's essay in Nature on this topic: "Watching a giant flock of birds swoop across the sky as...

Human Nature Redux

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David Broder writes an Op-Ed piece with this title in the 2/18/07 Sunday NY Times, noting how public consciousness has shifted away from a b...