Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
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 ...
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 ...
artificial intelligence
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting: An introduction to network theory and practice
The title of this entry contains the penultimate line in a poem by Robert Lowell entitled Dolphin. The net that binds the confessional poet has many strands: the iron-clad spoils of his pitiless memory, the effervescence...
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...
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...
Cool Runnings
FracLac for ImageJ
Audrey Karperien’s lab at the School of Community Health, Faculty of Science, Charles Stuart University, Australia has given us a free fractal, multifractal and lacunarity analysis suite called FracLac, a plugin for Image J...
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 ...
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 ...
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...