What’s in a name? The words behind thought
Seems like words are used by the brain to generalize and categorize— fine, basically an early example of learning and pattern formation. I would have liked the article to go more into the internal...
View ArticleWhy do we eat chili?
I have an ongoing argument with my family about whether or not spiciness is actually a flavor/spice. I don’t think it is. Perhaps we seek out the painful experience of snacking on chillies while...
View ArticleDivided Minds, Specious Souls
I would argue this is more an issue of semantics (soul = your reality is governed by a bunch of chemicals), but I like to say that about everything. Not a particularly great article, however I like...
View ArticleIs Google Making Us Stupid?
Is Google Making Us Stupid? appeared in The Atlantic Magazine July of 2008. It has a lot of interesting ideas, particularly near the end. It is very apparent that we are moving towards redefining what...
View ArticleBuddhism and the Brain
Article here from Seed Not the best of articles (Mr Logosh?), but I read it and then read a lot about Buddhism, the brain, and the Dalai Lama, and reading that promotes more reading is good...
View ArticleTheta-paced flickering between place-cell maps in the hippocampus
Full article link here— I recommend reading the Science link below, first. I don’t understand the finer details of the experiment, but exciting are the questions of memory formation and how that...
View ArticleMy Metaphor
We think and organize our complex thoughts using models that manifest as analogies and metaphors. Of course we do this because we cannot perceive all the raw data of a system at once, nor is it even...
View ArticleCrossing the Beams
Many low intensity gamma radiation beams converge on a single point in three dimensional space to ablate brain tissue, meanwhile a protective helmet affixed to the skull prevents midsurgical jitters....
View ArticleWho are you?
Brains are pattern recognition machines that output symbols. Consciousness is the brain symbolizing itself; a symbol for the ability to create symbols. Our sense of self is a convenient, easily...
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