Posts Tagged ‘brain’
 
 
 
abnormal psych
 

Will what is missing solve consciousness?

              In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
 
 
art
 

ConneXions

From the website: Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create ...
 
 
brain experiments
 

The Great Brain Experiment

A screen from The Great Brain Experiment iPhone app. The following news is from: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2013/WTP051980.htm The free app is being launched at the start of this year’s Bra...
 

 
altered states
 

Walter Freeman and the Order of William James

The Society for Mind Brain Sciences aims to quicken public and scientific interest in consciousness science. It is worth recalling that in the United States consciousness science was among the earliest topics considered in the ...
 
 
art
 

Vesalius for our age

Professional training is arduous, expensive, and frequently humiliating, but there are perks. Judges in judiciary school get discounts on gavels. Theoretical physicists need spend little on wardrobes. In medical school, I got a...
 
 
brain experiments
 

“Beauty too rich for use…”

  When literate people quote The Bard you can bet dollars to donuts they are limning Shakespeare. In the quixotic world of neuroscience, it’s different. Here, The Bard is G. Bard Ermentrout, University Professor of Mathe...
 

 
abnormal psych
 

Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks

TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
 
 
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Your own mouse brain

A few years ago I let slide a scanning electron microscope for sale on eBay for $800. I am glad I let it go. Dr. Partha Mitra and the good folks at MIT are presenting to the neuroscience community and the general public an atla...
 
 
Why Con
 

Not conscious yet

I heard about Ramona from Ray Kurzweil. Ramona is a chatbot. Ray said she is a good conversationalist. Better than a chess playing dog with a weak end game. I really like Ray. He’s a great inventor, and a futurist with an .86...

 
Why Con
 

The science game

Once upon a time, guys and gals read the sports pages for the drama of how their teams and their favorite sports warriors were doing. Batting averages, total yards gained, what Federer wore to Center Court at Wimbledon, these w...