Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
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Gerald Edelman: From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness + How Matter Becomes Imagination
Suppose we did understand everything about how your brain works ... So, do you think it would not work by beliefs, desires, and intentions?
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Of Two Minds
Darwin’s theory of natural selection is what guided his groundbreaking research on antibody structures, and it is what underlies his theory of neuronal group selection in his work on consciousness. “I wanted to bring Darwin...
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Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits
From: NYTimes.com One day in 2007, Dr. Giulio Tononi lay on a hospital stretcher as an anesthesiologist prepared him for surgery. For Dr. Tononi, it was a moment of intellectual exhilaration. He is a distinguished chair in cons...
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“Erasing” Traumatic Memories Moving from Science Fiction to Scientific Reality
From: TheGlobeandMail.com The brain has a remarkable capacity for keeping track of our past experiences. But detailed memories can sometimes seem more a curse than a blessing. This is especially true for those who’ve suffered...
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Consciousness and Cognition Journal: Table of Contents December 2010
The December issue of Consciousness and Cognition is available online: Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2010 Table of Contents: REGULAR ARTICLES ____________________________________________________________________________________...
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The Exploration of Meditation in the Neuroscience of Attention and Consciousness
A. Raffone and N. Srinivasan Article in Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science Abstract: Many recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies have revealed the importance of investigating meditation st...
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Vital Signs; Regimes: Meditation, for the Mind and the Heart
From: NYTimes.com. Could the mental relaxation produced by transcendental meditation have physiological benefits? A study presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla., suggests that it may, at ...
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The Same Old Consciousness
From: ErvinLaszlo.com: It makes sense to paraphrase Einstein’s famous dictum in regard to consciousness. Our problem is the unsustainability of the world we have created, and we should be clear that we can’t solve this ...
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‘Consciousness signature’ discovered spanning the brain
From: Newscientist.com: Electrodes implanted in the brains of people with epilepsy might have resolved an ancient question about consciousness. Signals from the electrodes seem to show that consciousness arises from the coor...
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Mental Training Through Meditation Enhances Attentional Stability
A. Lutz, H. Slagter, et al. Article in Journal of Neuroscience Abstract The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impair...