Leon, It seems to me that you have given up trying to understand consciuosness at the outset. This quote from your post below is to the point: "the functional...
... They could. It is just not practical to do so. For some E=MC^2 is enough. For others they need a two-hour documentary on nuclear power plants and on ...
I just wonder about two things that exist (I just read them in YOUR response, so they existed in it): 1. Why the lengthy quotation etc. from Heidegger? (I tell...
Inside the brains of smart kids WHEN it comes to the brain, bigger isn't always better. Intelligence has more to do with when and how the brain grows than with...
Larry Cahill, an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, and Lisa Kilpatrick, a former postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory, have found that the...
Regarding the Mono Lisa smile, I believe it is the smile you get when meeting a stranger for the second time having had extremely successful sex the first...
... Of course, Jud, since according to your philosophy your mind and consciousness do not exist, can we be forgiven if we assume that whatever you say that ...
Published online: 31 March 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060327-16 Study challenges prayers for the sick Clinical trial of prayer draws fire from critics. Helen...
Conscious and Unconscious Memory Linked in Storing New Information Marvin Chun and team New Haven, Conn. - The way the brain stores new, conscious information...
Brain Compensates for Aging by Becoming Less "Specialized" Christy Marshuetz New Haven, Conn. - One of two separate areas of the brain light up when younger...
Published online: 29 March 2006; | doi:10.1038/440588b Scans suggest IQ scores reflect brain structure Research results reignite intelligence controversy. Jim...
For behaviorists, almost all behavior is the result of some combination of basic conditioning processes (as well as habituation and sensitization). That ...
The fight/flight dichotomy gets 'interdigitised' across the amygdala but can then be customised to favour 'integrating' dynamics and so serving existing ...
The issues are covered in the IQ/EQ dichotomy with IQ focused on differentiating skills and speed ( and so the relation of IQ to reaction times). SOCIAL...
Chris, Is your IDM coding such as for sadness: Sadness [001]: 000, 100, 010, 110, 001, 101, 011, 111, a sequence that happens in the Amygdala. Does the...
Thanks for mail. Could you please send me a snippet previewing a refresher as to the subject, so that I can follow? I get lots of group mails from different...
(the focus here is on how analysis of an esoteric discipline has brought about the discovery of a property of recursion that is essential to understand for...
Hi Glen, <Snip> Anyway, it's still worth hanging in here -- so long as there are a few thinkers, accredited scientists or not, who give credence to what we are...
... In the above abstract they (Hu and Wu) say... "We postulate that consciousness is intrinsically connected to quantum spin since the latter is the origin of...
Ann NY Acad Sci Table of Contents for The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance: 12 December 2005; Vol. 1060, No. 1 ANNALS ONLINE -- Table...
Explaining how the brain recognizes faces The mechanism by which the brain recognizes faces has long fascinated neurobiologists, many of whom believe that the...
Aha! Favors the prepared mind If you've experienced the highs and lows of creative thinking, you know that sometimes the creative well is dry, while at other...
Explaining how the brain recognizes faces The mechanism by which the brain recognizes faces has long fascinated neurobiologists, many of whom believe that the...
Chris, When I was in med school back in the early 1990s, we learned that the thalamus, and in particular the pulvinar, was responsible for activating neurons...
April 06, 2006 Dear Reader, The latest issue of Scientific American Mind, HUMAN SEE, HUMAN DO, is now available at Scientific American Digital. Features in...
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