... <snip> ... Tsk tsk Leon, you obviously lack imagination. The containment of noise allows for the derivation of order from self-referencing. The categories ...
... No. Why not? Because you have the order wrong way around. Emotion overall is more integrating, organic, logic/reason more differentiating, mechanistic, ...
Hi Mike, According to Bruce Lipton, in his book "The Biology of Belief," the cell's membrane acts as a semiconductor and is "the true brain of the cell." He...
MT: 'Simple-celled organisms clearly have some form of mind - some capacity to decide whether to move this way or that - which resides somewhere in their...
Leon, First you say that no external intelligence is neededas the DNA coding structure is inherent in matter, and then you say that a "living intelligence' is...
Dear Chris: my brain is being very challenged to understand even a little bit of this! Well, it's a New Year, and as unscientific the idea of fresh new...
Not so fast. The mind of an amoeba is well worth talking about. This clever sac of chemicals probably contains most of the elements in the periodic table. To...
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... LM: Sorry Richard, but again, your response is based on a misinterpretation of what I actually said and meant. Can't you see the difference between an ...
hi Glen, Your mind is in the membrane proposition sounds interesting although beyond my pathetic chemistry. However, any such explanation surely has to be...
... The main issue is not whether one uses "brain" vs. "mind," the issue is epistemology. For mainstream psychology, and the fileds it has ruined, "mind" and ...
Good question. How much evolution will it take for that which is inside a membrane and is called a brain to catch up to even the chemistry abilities of the...
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Timing and Sequence of Brain Activity in Top-Down Control of Visual-Spatial Attention Tineke Grent-'t-Jong (1,2), Marty G. Woldorff (1,3) (1) Center for...
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For sure that evolution took a long time. From one membrane we see that during the blastula development three different layers (endoderm, ectoderm and...
... The 'membrane' issue emerges from perception. In the context of development from the dynamics of positive/negative feedback, the feedback operates BETWEEN...
Scan shows how brains plot future Brain scans have given US scientists a clue about how we create a mental image of our own future. Certain brain areas are...
I am pretty sure most of us are impressed by the robust complexity and diversity of single celled creatures on Earth and probably most of us are now and again...
December 29, 2006 Longevity Gene Keeps Brain Agile People with a cholesterol gene variant are more likely to live longer and with better brain function. By...
If we define "ego" as the ability to verbally describe the self, then all that is required is to translate "pink, fuzzy, with-sunglasses" etc. into words and...
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... ... and so it needs to learn, to be able to control/regulate genetically-determined responses to stimuli, to be come context-sensitive with such responses...
By Karen Hopkin ... PROFILE Physics Meets the Brain How Terry Sejnowski went from a grad student in theoretical physics to computational neuroscience's White...
Brain Scans Predict When People Will Buy Products Science Daily - For the first time, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to...
Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Creativity Zorana Ivcevic1, Marc A. Brackett2, and John D. Mayer1 ABSTRACT Three studies examined the relationship between...
Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software A woman is seen typing on a keyboard in a file photo. The problem...
As a programmer myself, let me just say that this man should be lynched. Drug out into the street and shot. Drawn and Quartered. You get the point. He has no...