Posts Tagged ‘cognitive neuroscience’
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...
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
“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...
brain imaging
Walter J. Freeman: How Brains Generate Meaning
Walter J. Freeman III, MD, PhD is an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who has conducted pioneering research in how brains generate meaning. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Member, Grad...
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...
Why Con
WYSIWYG? – Not!
If anything can be said to exist, there is a philosopher prepared to debate its existence. Likewise in neuroscience, amusements become canonical, as in the website featuring the drawing above, and someone will step up to...