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Book Review: Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Gabrielle Torre 0 Comments Brain Books, Chromosomes, CRISPR, Gene editing, Genetics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurodevelopment

Around the world, all populations of humans are essentially the same. The differences that make us who we are lie in differences among individuals, which result from only 0.1% of… Read more

Big Ideas Brain Books Consciousness Philosophy

The Strange Order of Things: Book Review

May 16, 2018May 17, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 0 Comments Antonio Damasio, Bacteria, Consciousness, Culture, Emotion, Evolution, homeostasis, reason, valence

ow do emotions construct human culture? Is culture uniquely human at all? Hard questions, but some tackled nonetheless by renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in his latest book, The Strange… Read more

Artificial Intelligence Brain Books

Book Review: Life 3.0

March 14, 2018May 28, 2018 Joel Frohlich 0 Comments AGI, AI, alignment problem, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, Elon Musk, Integrated Information Theory, Life 3.0, Max Tegmark, Super Intelligence, Tegmark

n August 2, 2014, Elon Musk (@elonmusk) tweeted, “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Yet, in the cultural ambience of Hollywood blockbusters, can… Read more

Brain Books Consciousness Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Book Review: The Perpetual Now

January 17, 2018January 17, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 1 Comment Brain book, Consciousness, Henry Molaison, Hippocampus, Lonnie Sue Johnson, medial temporal lobes, Memory, Michael D. Lemonick, Patient H.M., Short-term Memory, The Perpetual Now, Viral encephalitis

en years ago, in December 2007, an artist named Lonnie Sue Johnson lost her short term memory. She was admitted to the emergency room in the midst of a blizzard… Read more

Brain Books Sensation and Perception

Book Review: Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

October 19, 2017October 18, 2017 Joel Frohlich 3 Comments bipolar disorder, circadian rhythm, Clock, Einstein, eternalism, general relativity, metaillusion, metaphysics, Neuroscience, presentism, relativity, special relativity, time machine, time perception

n a recent family trip, I persuaded my dad to continue on from Grand Teton to Yellowstone National Park. Time was short before driving back to our lodging in Idaho.… Read more

Brain Books

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, A Review

August 17, 2016June 30, 2017 Joel Frohlich 0 Comments Algorithms to Live By, Book, Brain, Brian Christian, Computer Science, Read, Review, Science, The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Tom Griffiths

Responding to the assertion that computers lack intuition, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett once (counter-intuitively) argued that computers must have intuition. Ask a computer to calculate the square… Read more

Brain Books

Idiot Brain: What Your Head is Really Up To, A Review

July 27, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Book, Brain, Comedian, Dean Burnett, Funny, Guardian, Idiot Brain, Neuroscience, Read, Recommend, Review, What Your Head Is Really Up To

Your brain is the most remarkable thing about you because it makes you you. So, when Dean Burnett, Ph.D. chose to describe all that the brain does to make you… Read more

Brain Books Sensation and Perception

Connecting to our Social Selves

July 13, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments A-beta, and Mind, Book, Braille, Brain, C-fiber, David J. Linden, Heart, Mechanical, Mechanism, Meissner, Merkel, Pacinian, Pain, Pleasure, Receptor, Review, Ruffini, SCN9A, Sense, Sex, social, Touch, Touch: The Science of Hand

Dear Skin, I would like to express my upmost gratitude for the vast amount of receptors you possess. Among my favorites – the practical ones that allow me to find… Read more

Brain Books Interviews Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes

March 30, 2016March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 3 Comments Author, Autism, Conversation, Interview, Neurotribes, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, SciComm, Steve Silberman, Writer

Ten minutes before I was scheduled to begin my interview with celebrated writer Steve Silberman, I still had not figured out which questions I wanted to ask him. Staring down… Read more

Brain Books Consciousness Philosophy

Double Book Review: The Emperor’s New Mind and Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

January 13, 2016July 10, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Artificial Intelligence, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Book, Brain book, Can machines think, cognitive science, Douglas Hofstader, Escher, Gödel, Hofstadter, Is the brain a computer, Kurt Gödel, logic, mathematician, mathematics, mind, Neuron, paradox, physicist, quantum, riddle, Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind, Stuart Hammeroff, The Emperor's New Mind, theorem, Tubulin

“A barber (who is a man) shaves all and only those men who do not shave themselves. Does he shave himself?” If you can’t solve the above riddle, don’t worry… Read more

Brain Books

Book Review: The Superhuman Mind

October 28, 2015March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 1 Comment Berit Brogaard, Book, Brain, Kristian Marlow, Review, Synesthesia, The Superhuman Mind

“It turns out that all brain have hidden superhuman abilities. We just have to use the right keys to unlock them. One such key is synesthesia.” So, begins Dr. Berit… Read more

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