Category: Mind Philosophy
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Think! Decide! Think! Decid... STOP! [Harmonia]
Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in the brain when a person makes these kinds of decisions. Studying how these cost-benefit decisions are made when choosing to consume alcohol, a researcher identified distinct profiles of brain activity…
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Cells change. Cells change?
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells. More specifically, scientists in UT Southwestern's Department of Molecular Biology first successfully turned astrocytes -- the most common non-neuronal brain cells -- into neurons that formed…
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Mapping a brain. Infinite level of analysis. Monads. Decisions...
Mapping the human brain is a noble goal, but a rather ill-defined one. It’s like making a map of the United States. You could just show political boundaries and the locations of cities. Or you might depict geographical features like mountains and rivers. Or transportation routes, like interstate highways and railroad tracks. You might even…
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A mindless designer, a brain, plastic organic shapes...
A designer scans his consumers' brains to create the optimal home furnishings they desire. (1) You may like something else, but your brain know better! At least according to the designer who likes to believe your brain than what you actually say! "If you ask people what they like, as a group they like blue, wood…
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Brain correlations, full cups, thinking...
Suppose you heard the sound of skidding tires, followed by a car crash. The next time you heard such a skid, you might cringe in fear, expecting a crash to follow -- suggesting that somehow, your brain had linked those two memories so that a fairly innocuous sound provokes dread. MIT neuroscientists have now discovered…
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