cognitive neuroscience
abnormal psych
Quora, when you just have to have intelligent responses
https://www.quora.com/ You are obsessed with a question. Your sleep is interrupted. When you are sleeping, you dream about the question. You have discussed it with all the usual ...
brain science
Introduction to quantum entanglement
The Leonard Susskind Lectures http://theoreticalminimum.com/ Why? Why in God’s universe do we need to consider quantum entanglement? Four reasons: 1. As a physical phenomenon, ...
artificial intelligence
Golly GOL wizard and The Game of Life
http://golly.sourceforge.net/ The Game Of Life (not the board game by Hasbro/Funskool!) is a mathematical ‘zero-player game’ – the player can’t intervene after the game has started. Technically, it’...
artificial intelligence
mCRL2: Are there process algebras in our brain?
When Cool Runnings had its one year birthday recently, we took time to reflect on what kind of sites we had come to particularly value. They had to do with neuroscience, of course, and when possible, with consciousness s...
abnormal psych
See cartoons: The new New Yorker science site
Dramatic pictures and funny cartoons! Serious science and trending technology! Snappy editing and peppy prose! How would you pitch such a thing? Like combining National Geographic, Scientific American and The New Yorker ...
brain experiments
Good ol’ RasMol: Molecular modeling for the masses
Chemical effects on the brain are both fascinating and necessary for survival. Endogenous neuromodulators and neurotransmitters and their receptors are switches whi...
altered states
Mental physics
Mullah Nasruddin embodies the way of the wise fool to which one aspires with increasing maturity: One day, people saw Mullah Nasruddin...
brain experiments
What chance do we have of understanding your thought, Reverend Bayes?
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes From the site: While there are a few existing online explanations of Bayes’ Theorem, my experience with trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that the e...
brain experiments
NOVA beta
Please put away your books and notes, it’s time for a quiz. Circle the answer below which best represents the date of the first computer. 1822 CE 70 BCE 1206 CE 1941 CE 2700 BCE Depending on your perspective, and wh...
altered states
If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?
This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...