Category Archives: Mind

Christopher deCharms: Looking inside the brain in real time

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Mathemagics

This guy squares 5-digit numbers in his head!!!

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Richard Dawkins – The Enemies of Reason

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God on the Brain

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.

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Frans de Waal on Empathy

Interesting talk by Frans de Waal on Empathy. I especially liked the simple explanations of the concepts “emotional contagion” & “motor contagion”.

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Anatomically correct fabric brain art

From The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art, the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art: … Am I the only one who can see the resemblance here?

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Numenta

My latest interest being philosophy of the mind, I recently stumbled upon this TED talk by Jeff Hawkins. He is the founder of Palm Computing, and he – as it turns out – is also interested in how the brain … Continue reading

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Evolutionary theory of intellectual property theft

I’ve been reading a lot of Pinker, Dennett and Dawkins (P.Diddy?) lately, so I’m in an evolutionary state of mind. Here’s a question that’s been troubling me for some time now: Why do people find it so easy to steal … Continue reading

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Dennett

If you are interested in Dennett’s philosophy, then you must read “Dennett” by Tadeusz Zawidski (ISBN: 1-85168-484-0). It is one of the most interesting philosophy books I have read. “Dennett” aims to show the unifying theme in Dennett’s philosophy. This … Continue reading

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Good people, bad things

While I do know Steven Weinberg, I confess I have not read anything of his yet. But I do know the following often-quoted saying of his which I’d like to share with you: “Religion is an insult to human dignity. … Continue reading

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Daniel Dennett – Multimedia

You can download a lot of audio and video clips of interviews and appearances by Dennett on Daniel Dennett – Multimedia.

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Rest in greenpeace

While driving the other day, I had a revolutionary idea: Each one of us, as an individual, could offset our own carbon emissions by paying a poor person in a developing country to commit suicide. By doing so, not only … Continue reading

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Remotecracy

Ever since its inception, the European Union has been gaining momentum. The latest attempts at putting forward a unifying constitution have failed, but I believe that a European constitution is not far off in the future. The only question, in … Continue reading

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