Category: Mind Philosophy
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Experience the unexperienced. Dream reality...
Researchers found a way to make you experience lucid dreaming (a state where you are aware that you are dreaming and can consciously alter your dream and control your experience in it) by electrically stimulating the brain during sleep. (1) Oh how void we really are. How arrogant and shallow at the same time. Our…
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Psychology, Materialism, Assumptions, Dogmatism.
IMAGINE you are a doctor before the advent of modern medical tests and your patient is gasping for breath. Is it asthma, a chest injury, or are they having a heart-attack? You don't know and have no idea how best to help them. Some would argue that's what it's like for doctors trying to…
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Brain waves, mice, oscillations, "knowing"...
Researchers found the brain activity that happens when mice that are learning make the right choice—and know it. A new study links this specific type of brain activity with the short-term memory that animals, including humans, use for complex tasks. That type of memory, called working memory, is important for mental math, problem solving and…
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Edibile knowledge...
Planarian "cannibal" worms eating other trained planarian worms, learn much faster how to behave under certain conditions than other worms who did not eat trained worms! It is like the knowledge of the eaten ones is transferred to the cannibals! (1, 2 - see file "McConnell 1962 _ Planarian worms", 3) This is the startling conclusion…
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Brain, Mind and How to read Harmonia Philosophica.
A brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviors critical for survival have been discovered by neuroscientists. The team has identified a chain of neural connections which links central survival circuits to the spinal cord, causing the body to freeze when experiencing fear. Understanding how these central neural pathways work is a fundamental step towards developing effective treatments for emotional…
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