Hi Michael, ... perhaps, next, we should have 'peers' rank who they 'think' are the top "Phlogiston Experts", or the top "Cycle and Epi-cycle Experts" (from...
15024
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 1, 2008 9:45 am
Religious belief and devotion linked to sense of personal control (PhysOrg.com) -- An individual's level of commitment to religious rituals like praying and...
15025
Michael Cecil
deadseascrolls1
Nov 1, 2008 9:46 am
... Experts'. ... exist; ... top ... the ... Hi, Brent, That may very well be; but not intentionally, however. ... minority. You got that right. In spades. ...
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John Clem
yanniru
Nov 1, 2008 9:29 pm
In NATURE Precedings/Neuroscience: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2443/version/1 a free pre-pub source for NATURE papers in the life sciences ...
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JohnM
janosapu
Nov 1, 2008 9:29 pm
Ha-ha, fellow 'musician'? (if you really call rock 'music' - some jazz maybe, indeed). Category mistake you do: express one plane of aspects by another plane's...
15028
chris lofting
ddiamondaus
Nov 2, 2008 5:46 am
... LOL! - my personal tastes are wide although when pushed a bias emerges to progressive metal (tool, dream theater, pain of salvation, early genesis etc etc...
15029
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 2, 2008 6:37 am
Molecular Motor Tied to Memory By Lauren Cahoon ScienceNOW Daily News 31 October 2008 How does the brain record a memory? Somehow our experiences and...
15030
chris lofting
ddiamondaus
Nov 2, 2008 8:51 am
The AI focus on "Confabulation Theory" (Google it, you will get refs and some videos) gets into this focus on motor etc - the 4K 'thalmocortical' columns...
15031
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 2, 2008 9:37 am
Chris Lofting ... RKS: It appears to me that 'Confabulation Theory' is one member of a set of theories that confounds physical and functional elements of...
15032
chris lofting
ddiamondaus
Nov 2, 2008 10:45 am
... So you believe mind is independent of brain? no need for such. What is required is understanding the neural hierarchy and how different levels can work...
15033
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 2, 2008 10:55 am
... RKS: I said nothing whatsoever about the independence of the mind. The mind is entirely dependant on the brain. But more than one structure may...
15034
chris lofting
ddiamondaus
Nov 2, 2008 12:28 pm
... Sure - as we see in the EIC work covering the assessment of contexts by two semi-independent entities in the neural hierarchy but with the 'last to ...
15035
JohnM
janosapu
Nov 2, 2008 10:33 pm
Tom, interesting question. - Expands a bit on my 'down-to-bottom' ID of Ccness: the 'response to information' - the noun - now showing a similar situation...
15036
JohnM
janosapu
Nov 2, 2008 10:34 pm
Chris, I bow to your knowledge in the rock-etc. culture. But you still try to express 'music' in the linguistically 'spoken' language means. Chris: "music will...
15037
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 4, 2008 1:55 am
Study Shows Brain Functions Same Way Awake or Asleep (PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have found strong evidence supporting the view that the...
15038
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 4, 2008 1:55 am
Brain slows at 40, starts body decline (AP) -- Think achy joints are the main reason we slow down as we get older? Blame the brain, too: The part in charge of...
15039
chris lofting
ddiamondaus
Nov 4, 2008 3:42 am
... duh! - research back in the 70s identified the REM cycle as general and so reflected in awake states - IOW there is a 90/100 minute general oscillation ...
15040
Michael Cecil
deadseascrolls1
Nov 4, 2008 1:51 pm
Current efforts regarding the development of a science of consciousness appear to be sharply restricted to a study of only the consciousness of the 'thinker',...
15041
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 4, 2008 2:17 pm
How Signals Flow Between Neurons: New Research Explains Membrane Fusion At Synapse ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) - Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles...
15042
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 4, 2008 2:18 pm
**************************ANNOUNCEMENT********************** Brain Impact Factor Increases by 12% In the recently released 2007 ISI Science Citation Index,...
15043
Mark Peaty
markpeaty
Nov 4, 2008 9:19 pm
Hi John, I would like to clarify how I use words around this potentially tricky area of discourse. By ethics I mean the true study of right and wrong, i.e. the...
15044
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 5, 2008 3:06 am
Brain recognises verbal 'Oh-shit' wave It seems that our brain can correct speech errors in the same way that it controls other forms of behaviour. Niels...
15045
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 5, 2008 3:07 am
Research shows that time invested in practicing pays off for young musicians A Harvard-based study published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS...
15046
JohnM
janosapu
Nov 5, 2008 2:49 pm
RKS, I do not argue with the messenger. You reported about 'savants' who draw conclusions on unknown processes (mind? brain in thinking? etc.) based upon a...
15047
JohnM
janosapu
Nov 5, 2008 2:50 pm
Sorry, Mark, I was too concise. Did not want to use too many "words" (I know they just tease you). Good or bad? for whom? in what respect? Is the cattle bad to...
15048
JohnM
janosapu
Nov 5, 2008 2:50 pm
Ever heard about fast reflexes? who established the speed-units in classical physics to be a norm for the thought (mentality, call it mind, the a-temporal,...
15049
mkaitlyn30
Nov 5, 2008 10:09 pm
verbal ability (as measured by a vocabulary IQ test) and visual pattern completion K: there is rhythm and pitch in language, as well as syntax. If you...
15050
tom9401
Nov 5, 2008 10:14 pm
... efforts regarding the development of a science of consciousness ... Ego is a part of the action of being and consciousness. It is an offshoot of the...
15051
Massimo Bondì
masbond@...
Nov 5, 2008 10:16 pm
Dear Robert, I send you a paper of mine regarding "Signals flow between neurons" The unified Synaptic channel (USC)is an histological structure present between...
15052
Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Nov 5, 2008 10:56 pm
Nature 456, 102-106 (6 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature07351; Received 14 April 2008; Accepted 20 August 2008; Published online 15 October 2008 Entrained...
