Tag: reality
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Real. Possible. Stupid. God.
Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists has found. Its work offers new insights into the impact word choice has on how we make distinctions between what's real vs. what's merely possible. (1) But what is a ‘fact’? What do we know for…
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Thinking. Filling in the cosmos…
Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according to new research. (1) Thinking. Changing the way we think. Until we change again. And again. And be able to do nothing but thinking. In every possible…
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Not real?!
Physicists have published a review that explores Bell's inequalities and his concepts of reality and explains their relevance to quantum information and its applications. (1) Bell. Quantum mechanics. Mathematics. Physics. Philosophy. Poor humans. Arrogant men. All this effort based on the most absurd of assumptions: That something can NOT be real...
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Moving… Thinking of moving… Standing still!
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) work on the principle that measurable changes in electrical brain activity occur just by thinking about performing a task. Signals can be read, evaluated, and then converted into control signals via a machine learning system, which can then be used to operate a computer or a prosthesis. In a recently published study,…
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Hunger…
Researchers discovers how hunger might make food tastier: Using optogenetic and chemogenetic techniques, researchers have identified brain circuits underlying hunger-induced changes in the preferences for sweet and aversive tastes in mice. These circuits involved Agouti-related peptide-expressing neurons, which projected to glutamate neurons in the lateral hypothalamus. From there, glutamate neurons projecting to the lateral septum…
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