Archive for the ‘religion’ Category
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
This video features Gordon Brown, talking openly about the balance between national and human interests. This is a hot spot in the attempt to recognize the individual as we identify with the collective.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Take any two human brains and compare them. Their coarse structure will be similar: here a gyrus, there the thalamus. The correspondence is pretty good as you look closer and closer, until you get down to a certain scale. The exact scale probably depends on the local ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
In this remarkable talk at TED, Jill Bolte Taylor describes the phenomenology of a stroke. She gives a very moving and spirited account of what it felt like for her to suffer a major stroke which essentially knocked out the left half of her brain. The experience was essentially mystical ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I'm reading a very short note in this months Scientific American (so short it doesn't warrant a counterpart on their website, so no link. Sorry). In treats of people with body dysmorphic disorder, in which sufferers perceive themselves as flawed based on very little evidence. Functional MRI has ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
More and more, I find that the vision of being I am outlining here and in the sister site is one that aligns well with the enactive approach in Cognitive Science. I try not to read too much ahead of me, but when I do read in this area, things ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I quote this in toto. The page I found it on is a weird mixture of quantum physics and nekkid ladies. Ain't the interwebs great?
Throughout the last decade, apocalyptic visions have abounded in response to the increasing fragmentation of knowledge, dehumanization of the individual, and generalized disruption that ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
In 2005, the Dali Lama addressed the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Not everyone was happy with this. Here is the text of a petition by scientists to stop it. I just wish we were ready for such dialogue. However, I can see that ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
... is a good guide, a good thing to seek. If happiness is in rough correspondence with what a pink monkey needs, then it is a good thing to seek for in one's life. (I'm calling this the 150 effect: being liked by about 150 people would feel ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Word on the street is there is a war on between Science and Religion. Science in the blue corner has a rational methodology, and religion in the red corner helps people with their big questions. Celebrity Death Match style. It's not true. We have collectively gotten so ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
As our scientific abilities have progressed at an ever increasing rate, our ability to employ those abilities ethically, or in the service of humanity, has stagnated. We well remember when scientists worried about their role in the development of the atomic bomb. Many who worked on the ...
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