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What is Qualia?
BartendingBear
by BartendingBear  2-17-2009    1
 Much more clarity can be had from the whole page.
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'Wiring' in the brain influences personality
wildcat
by wildcat  11-24-2008    1
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Poverty and the Brain
wildcat
by wildcat  11-7-2008    1
 "The point is that poverty isn't just an idea, or a state of mind: it actually warps the mind. Some brains never even have a chance." deserves a second thought
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Internet use could improve brain function and speed up decision-making
wildcat
by wildcat  10-27-2008   
 Previous studies have warned that too much computer use could be responsible for increasing levels of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Dr Gary Small, director of the memory and ageing research centre at the University of California, Los Angeles, said: "Young people are growing up immersed in this technology and their brains are more malleable, more plastic and changing than with older brains," he said.
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What do you know? Not as much as you think
wildcat
by wildcat  10-16-2008    4
 "Our results indicate that if a comparison is made relative to an expert, consumers' beliefs regarding their knowledge are more consistent with their actual knowledge than if a comparison had been made relative to an average
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Brain boost drugs 'growing trend'
wildcat
by wildcat  10-15-2008   
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Using the Internet might improve brain function
wildcat
by wildcat  10-15-2008    2
 "A simple, everyday task like searching the Web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older," Small said.
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Ignite Your Brainpower with the 20 Smartest Foods on Earth
wildcat
by wildcat  10-14-2008    1
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The Cultural Evolution Of Religion
wildcat
by wildcat  10-11-2008    2
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Even When You Sleep, Your Brain Is Awake
wildcat
by wildcat  10-10-2008    1
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Clive Thompson: Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World
wildcat
by wildcat  10-7-2008   
 keep on reading
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Calming your thoughts through mindfulness
wildcat
by wildcat  10-5-2008   
 "We want to move into a place where the outside world will do whatever it's going to do without us going through the roller coaster of emotions," Rogers says. "We want to maintain this more alive, vigilant, present way of being that is somewhat independent of how things are going."
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Richard Dawkins- the believer
wildcat
by wildcat  9-30-2008    1
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Social media: Social Approximity?
wildcat
by wildcat  9-29-2008   
 Now that bit about the telegraph may be a bit out of dot dot dash date, so simply substitute in "social media" for telegraph and you're back in the present tense. Social media are a recontextualization of old print forms and contents within a new distribution and communication framework (social web). It's not surprising that so many of our social practices (tools and uses) echo, if not amplify, their old media (broadcast) forebears: celebrity, self-promotion, news, anchoring, commentary, top tens, ratings, rankings, and polls (diggs, votes).
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7 Steps to Making Your Future Clearer and Brighter
wildcat
by wildcat  9-28-2008    4
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Doubling Your Strengths?
wildcat
by wildcat  9-25-2008    5
 However, the message is confusing. It says: To be successful, we need only half of our selves—our strengths. By redefining the concept of strengths, I have created a framework that describes all of the ways that a person can think, feel, and behave as strengths. How is it that we don't have weaknesses? We are so used to thinking in a positive-negative framework, which is a self-limiting way of thinking. So, it's almost natural that when we think about a strength we have, we immediately start looking for a negative, or a weakness. For example, if you see yourself in positive terms as outgoing and gregarious, you might think negatively about yourself when you are quiet and less expressive. I want you to see yourself not in terms of strengths and weaknesses but in terms of opposite strengths.
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The Landscape of Possible Intelligences
wildcat
by wildcat  9-15-2008    1
 If we imagine the levels of intelligence as a ladder with unevenly spaced rungs, there may be jumps that some intelligences are not able to complete, or their derivatives are not able to jump. So a type 3 mind may be able to jump up four levels of bootstrapping intelligence, but not five. Since I don't believe intelligence is linear (that is I believe intelligence grows in many dimensions), a better illustration may be to view the problem of bootstrapping super intelligence as navigating across a rugged evolutionary landscape.
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Stressed Out — Chew Some Gum
wildcat
by wildcat  9-6-2008    1
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Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
wildcat
by wildcat  9-6-2008    11
 It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site — “What are you doing?” — can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they’re trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
wildcat
by wildcat  9-5-2008    1
  Trial-and-error evolution According to Gary Marcus's Kluge our brains are an engineering nightmare, says Steven Rose
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Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind
wildcat
by wildcat  9-3-2008    1
 Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather than large-scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals
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Performance Enhancing Drugs for Pro-Gamers
wildcat
by wildcat  8-30-2008    1
 As always what is needed is regulation and not banning
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Very Long-Term Backup- Rosetta
wildcat
by wildcat  8-26-2008   
 One side of the disk contains a graphic teaser. The design shows headlines in the eight major languages of the world today spiraling inward in ever-decreasing size till it becomes so small you have trouble reading it, yet the text goes on getting smaller. The sentences announce: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” This graphic side of the disk is pure titanium. A black oxide coating has been added to the surface. The text is etched into that, revealing the whiter titanium. This bold sign board is needed because the pages of genesis which are etched on the mirror-like opposite side of the disk are nearly invisible.
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The Role of Meaning in Human Thinking
wildcat
by wildcat  8-1-2008    8
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The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
wildcat
by wildcat  7-31-2008    2
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The Zombification Of Philosophy (Of Mind)
wildcat
by wildcat  7-31-2008    1
 Massimo Pigliucci is Professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolution and of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, NY. an interesting view , go read it
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How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
wildcat
by wildcat  7-25-2008    3
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New Memory Technologies
wildcat
by wildcat  7-24-2008    3
 Considering the recent advances in Brain-Machine interface, and the development of new neural implants, it is quite clear that Memory management is only the tip of the iceberg, I definitely agree with D.Peletier that the main effect of these new technologies will be to vastly improve our wellbeing
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Science meets Poetry at ESOF2008
wildcat
by wildcat  7-22-2008   
 lucky he who could attend
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Evolutionary Game Theory And The Mathematics Of Altruism
wildcat
by wildcat  7-21-2008    1
 A fascinating example of cooperation we have right here at CM
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education on nanotech, human enhancement increases public concerns?
wildcat
by wildcat  7-21-2008    1
 Cobb says the study is also important because it shows that deliberative forums are a viable tool for encouraging informed public engagement in the development of governmental policies
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Roadmap For Brain Augmentation via the Internet.
wildcat
by wildcat  7-21-2008   
 Once we have hardware connected to the nerves ( our senses and our brain ), then software transforms that hardware into brain augmentation - of the serious sort
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Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
wildcat
by wildcat  7-19-2008    2
 “This is the tip of the iceberg for what is possible,” said Tan Le, another of Emotiv's co-founders, during a recent press demonstration. “There will be a convergence of gesture-based technology and the brain as a new interface - the Holy Grail is the mind.”
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The social psychology revolution is reaching its tipping point
wildcat
by wildcat  7-19-2008    1
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11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life
wildcat
by wildcat  7-18-2008    5
 Have a vision for your future...
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Future Human: The Evolution of Immediate Emotion
wildcat
by wildcat  7-18-2008    1
 Humans, apparently, are still in the early stages of evolving extended response mechanisms. But it seems likely that by the time we portion more of our brain to long-term dangers, there will be few grizzly bears around to worry about, and a whole lotta global warming.
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Addicted to Grief?
wildcat
by wildcat  7-18-2008    4
 When time doesn't heal, the brain's reward system may be playing a role
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“Metabolically Dominant Soldier.”
wildcat
by wildcat  7-18-2008    1
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Is the Internet Bad for Science?
wildcat
by wildcat  7-17-2008    1
 as always, the answer depends on the person, in this case, who is the scientist doing the research.
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Humans and machines will merge in future
wildcat
by wildcat  7-15-2008    3
 "We want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that," Bostrom told CNN
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