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Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia - health - 29 November 2011 - New Scientist

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:18 +0000

The development of general anaesthesia has transformed surgery from a horrific ordeal into a gentle slumber. It is one of the commonest medical procedures in the world, yet we still don't know how the drugs work. Perhaps this isn't surprising: we still don't understand consciousness, so how can we comprehend its disappearance?

Tags: #anaesthesia #brain #cogsci #consciousness #medicine #mind #science

Merlin W. Donald - Queen's University

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:14:08 +0000

Merlin Donald is a Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of many scientific papers, and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (Harvard, 1991), and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness (Norton, 2001).

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upsideclown: extelligence

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:49:54 +0000

Tags: #cogsci #extelligence #extended #fiction #mind #philosophy #scifi #stories #upsideclown

Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:06:34 +0000

"By disrupting brain activity in a particular region, neuroscientists can sway people’s views of moral situations."

Tags: #brain #cogsci #mind #mit #neuroscience #research

My Head is in the Cloud

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:35:06 +0000

Been there for years myself, welcome to the cloud. This is part of why I'm so awkward away from an internet connection. "Now, after a few years of this, I realize that when I look up from the screen I know almost nothing. And maybe that would be fine if the absent phone numbers and upcoming dates were freeing space for deeper and more introspective thought. But I sense that my addiction to the realtime stream is only making room for the consumption of a faster stream."

Tags: #cloud #head #memory #mind #philosophy

Mind Hacks: Exploring the extended mind

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Tags: #brain #cogsci #mind #philosophy

The Extended Mind

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:21:23 +0000

"Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words "just ain't in the head", and hold that this externalism about meaning carries over into an externalism about mind. We propose to pursue a third position. We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes. "

Tags: #brain #cogsci #consciousness #extended #mind #psychology

Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:12:42 +0000

"The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects in the external environment are utilized by the mind in such a way that the objects can be seen as extensions of the mind itself. Specifically, the mind is seen to encompass every level of the cognitive process, which will often include the use of environmental aids."

Tags: #cogsci #extended #intelligence #learning #mind #psychology #wikipedia

Overcoming Bias: Mind Projection Fallacy

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:21:49 +0000

"Would a non-humanoid alien, with a different evolutionary history and evolutionary psychology, sexually desire a human female? It seems rather unlikely. To put it mildly."

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Your Outboard Brain Knows All

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:18:35 +0000

"Sure, I'm a veritable genius when I'm on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I'm not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world?"

Tags: #brain #mind #net #web20

Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:16:32 +0000

"Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence."

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Developing Intelligence : Shared Intentionality in Human and Primate Cognition

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:54:30 +0000

"Although humans and non-human primates differ in a variety of seemingly more important ways, Tomasello suggests that "shared intentionality" is the most critical: a propensity for social interaction allowed each of these other capacities to evolve to the

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YouTube - Bullet Dodging 6 years old brain damaged/autistic girl

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:51:42 +0000

"Ashley has developped "special" abilities since her accident which has damage some important parts of her brain."

Tags: #autism #braindamage #gaming #gradius #mightbefake #mind #nifty #videos

MindBlog: How do we persist when our molecules do not?

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:05:49 +0000

"No component of the system is itself stable but the entire production locks together to have stable existence. This is how you can manage to persist even though much of you is being recycled by day if not the hour."

Tags: #biology #brain #cogsci #mind #philosophy

Alex Byrne: What Mind-Body Problem

Wed, 31 May 2006 16:00:02 +0000

"It may yet turn out that the hard problem of consciousness is not so hard after all."

Tags: #cogsci #consciousness #mind #philosophy #psychology