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...
Religious belief and devotion linked to sense of personal control (PhysOrg.com) -- An individual's level of commitment to religious rituals like praying and...
... Experts'. ... exist; ... top ... the ... Hi, Brent, That may very well be; but not intentionally, however. ... minority. You got that right. In spades. ...
In NATURE Precedings/Neuroscience: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2443/version/1 a free pre-pub source for NATURE papers in the life sciences ...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... 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 ...
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...
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...
Study Shows Brain Functions Same Way Awake or Asleep (PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have found strong evidence supporting the view that the...
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...
... 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 ...
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',...
How Signals Flow Between Neurons: New Research Explains Membrane Fusion At Synapse ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) - Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
... 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...
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...
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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...