Tag: mind
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Turn off consciousness… So?
That’s what doctors at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., inadvertently discovered while evaluating a 54-year-old woman with epilepsy. The researchers realized that by using electrodes to deliver tiny jolts of electricity to a particular region of the woman’s brain, they could control her consciousness almost as if they had an on-off switch. (1)…
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Scanning the brain. So what?
DARPA wants to build a computer that mimics the human brain. [1] At the same time scientists have shown that it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before by analysing MRI images of the brain (along with the use of an elegant mathematical model). [2] In some years we will be able to…
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fMRI, brain, creativity, scientific stupidity.
For the first time, neuroscientists have used fMRI scanners to track the brain activity of both experienced and novice writers as they sat down — or, in this case, lay down — to turn out a piece of fiction. The researchers, led by Martin Lotze of the University of Greifswald in Germany, observed a broad…
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Primates, brain stimulation, free will, dogmatism…
When electrical pulses are applied to the ventral tegmental area of their brain, macaques presented with two images change their preference from one image to the other. The study is the first to confirm a causal link between activity in the ventral tegmental area and choice behavior in primates. (1) My dogmatic atheist friend, Free…
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Mirror neurons. One.
Scientists have discovered that everyone can read minds. Through the mirror-neurons we all have, whenever we see someone doing something we actually replicate his brain activity into our own brain!!! (1) Consciousness is One. We are all part of One. Our brain is the proof. We seem different. But we are not. Search for…
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