Located 442 results from search term 'neuroscience'
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Commented in Disunion: Appointment at Fredericksburg
Thank YOU! ;-) I don't know if I'd call it a hobby. Reading about it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble! However, I am not a reinactor. The reinactors are much more hardcore than I; they've forgotten more about the Civil War than I'll ever know. Plus, it's not cheap. A friend of mine is a reinactor (in the movie "Gettysburg" there's a quick shot of his very grimy face!). He tried to get me into it, When I saw the price tags for the clothing, equipment, etc (mid four figures) I said thanks but no thanks! I wish I had more time to dedicate to posting and being the tribe leader. However, I'm my mom's primary care giver. She has "moderate" Alzheimer's, (thus I post from time to time in t/neuroscience/) but still lives with me, and that takes a lot of my mental strength. Nevertheless, I hope to start reading Ron Chernow's biography of US Grant (just arrived two hours ago!). 1074 pages! However, the last 115 pages are "just" notes, etc., so "just" 959 pages of real text!
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Commented in Driving for more than two hours a day makes you less intelligent, study finds
Just a reminder that there is a reason why neuroscience is a go to term for complexity, Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers' Brains Grow to Navigate London's Streets.
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Commented in Atheist Debates - Is Anything really possible?
I wish that he would incorporate more science like Dawkins and Harris often do. He'll say "I don't know" - which is perfectly fine and sometimes the best course of action, but there are sometimes answers or lines of scientific inquiry that he misses out on.
I can't really fault him on that. His background is in IT, not scientific research like Dawkins. Likewise Harris was, I believe, trained in neuroscience. Dillahunty is very scrupulous about not claiming knowledge he doesn't actually have. Instead he's focused on addressing the beliefs people claim and examining them.
And he tends to give backwards idiots too much say and then will explode on them. Entertaining, but not really highbrow discussion.
I believe that's a deliberate strategy on his part.
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Commented in Blindsight: the strangest form of consciousness
As a fan of Peter Watts' Blindsight, I got a kick out of this. Seriously, though, really interesting discussion on neuroscience and consciousness.
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Commented in Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
This was such a nice read and horribly daunting to realise that we'll soon be losing such a brilliant mind from our time. I've loved the work that Sacks has done to progress neuroscience. He may not be the father of the field, but he has done so much to bring the field to the forefront and make it accessible to the general public as well. It's beautiful to see that he is truly a scientist that enjoys the fields beyond his own areas of work and takes comfort from those areas in his final moments.
I think it's time to start reading more of his works again.
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Commented in Virtual Reality Without Awkward Body Sensors
Well I wouldn't say forever. Just depends on how long it takes for neuroscience to get to a point that allows us to control our game straight from the brain.
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Commented in Shanghai teens top international education ranking, OECD says
I have a theory about intelligence and intellect, maybe it's all bunk and the rantings of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, but I still like to think about it.
I think that some intelligence is more or less "manufactured", in the sense that children are forced to learn massive amounts of information in a very short amount of time, cramming entire languages and theories behind mathematics down their throats in a years time, and more or less becoming "smart". It seems like a lot of Southeastern Asian countries do this to their "brightest" students, including China, South Korea, and India. A lot of this ties into the competition that stems from such a type of education, so keep that in mind while reading this.
However, I believe that this type of learning is just absolutely useless. It doesn't teach or develop any kind of abstraction, rather, it just asks students to regurgitate their learned and studied materials onto a few tests that determine the direction of your life. It just seems to me that these kids seem to only know "stuff". And like it's obviously important to know stuff, that's just kind of an accepted way of life, but I believe that forced schooling and forced learning (to the extent that some countries do it) are extremely toxic to a developing child and teenager's mind.
I've seen a few documentaries on such types of schooling, and seems like an alarmingly large amount of the kids don't have any sort of social development in any way, as they're also being forced into learning the moment they leave school for the day. I think it's rather a negative form of development that sort of gives kids the skills to excel in subjects and fields, but they don't have the social ability to connect with their colleagues and higher ups, and this in turn actually limits their ability to more or less "climb the ladder". It's like they're trying to avoid being unsuccessful in life, but in their massive attempts to do so, some of them actually get s...
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Commented in What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate
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