Category: Mind
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The human Memory problem.
We may think we know where memory is stored, but we do not. Science has not figured that out yet. We have pinpointed areas of the brain which play a ROLE in the memory formation/ management (like the hippocampus), but we do not know the EXACT place where memories are stored. [see. Francis Crick, "Memory…
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Bark! Bark! (Admitting your limits)
A dog thought-to-speech device! The future! Technology! Hip Scandinavians! A thing that translates your dog's thoughts into people-speak! Open up your check-book and post-date one for The Future! But wait. Isn't there something missing in the promotional video? Something important? Right. It doesn't show a real demonstration. (1) "What I saw in their video can't…
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Mindfulness' meditation. Gene expression.
It's no secret that mindfulness meditation - a practice that encourages focusing attention on the present moment - can ease emotional stress. And evidence is mounting that mindfulness also may have key benefits for your physical health - from lowering blood pressure to helping curb addiction. But a new study conducted by researchers working in…
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Deleting memories to... errrr... I forgot!
Scientists claim that they can use specific drus to block bad memories from forming. They also claim they can erase bad memories! (1) But how can you do that when you do not know how memory works or where memories are stored? (check out the relative "memory" tag in both Harmonia Philosophica portals) How dangerous…
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Drugs as a way to release the mind (?!)
A researcher. A thinker. And yet, a drug user... Every place will hold its secrets from you. You can never see the Amazon jungle, if you keep intact the bubble of linguistic assumptions of the place you started out from. (Terence McKenna discusses if reality is real) Culture and ideology are not your friends. This…
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