“The plan is to engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain,”
says Dharmendra Modha, manager of the cognitive computing project at
IBM Almaden Research Center.
In what could be one of the most ambitious computing projects ever, neuroscientists, computer engineers and psychologists are coming together in a bid to create an entirely new computing architecture that can simulate the brain’s abilities for perception, interaction and cognition. All that, while being small enough to fit into a lunch box and consuming extremely small amounts of power.
Psychopaths who kill and rape have faulty connections between the part of the brain dealing with emotions and that which handles impulses and decision-making, scientists have found.
In a study of psychopaths who had committed murder, manslaughter, multiple rape, strangulation and false imprisonment, the British scientists found that roads linking the two crucial brain areas had “potholes,” while those of non-psychopaths were in good shape.
“That blasted siren. I can’t focus.” That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person’s low working-memory capacity, according to a new study.
Based on a study of 84 students divided into four separate experiments, University of Oregon researchers found that students with high memory storage capacity were clearly better able to ignore distractions and stay focused on their assigned tasks.
Two of the sharpest minds in the computing arena spar gamely, but neither scores a knockdown in one of the oldest debates around: whether machines may someday achieve consciousness. (NB: Viewers may wish to brush up on the work of computer pioneer Alan Turing and philosopher John Searle in preparation for this video.)
Mind-controlled wheelchairs are becoming all the rage these days, but before you start letting your thoughts wander elsewhere, this latest from researchers at the Brain Science Institute (BSI) — Toyota Collaboration Center have what they claim is a system that’ll control the ride using brain waves analyzed every 125 milliseconds, which it boasts bests the competition by several seconds.
Many people are questioning today what consciousness really is. How will this concept be defined? Watch this interesting video that highlights some of the issues:
Why is our first impulse to believe something that we see, read or hear? Especially if it is in print, online or comes in an “officially” looking packaging?
How do we teach ourselves and our students, that another impulse has to follow the first one immediately: Evaluate…critical thinking… learn to listen for and to your own “gut feeling”… cross referencing…
Gullibility goes a long way, especially when people follow sites that are fictitious and when they get caught up in the hype that is associated with marketing strategies. Take a look at this site linked to the upcoming movie of 2012, called the IHC, which claims to be an organization that is working towards the continuity of the human species. Already a lot of gullible people have signed up for their lottery ticket from all around the world. I’m sure Sony Pictures is having a good laugh at their expense. This just shows how marketing and media manipulation can go a long way, and how truly gullible a lot of people really are. Don’t believe all that you read, see and hear!
“Many groups have been working devices that make objects invisible,” Che Ting Chan tells PhysOrg.com. “Most of these devices, however, encompass the object to be cloaked.” Chan, a scientist at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes that it is possible to create a cloaking device that would be able to render an object invisible without encompassing it.
Invisibility cloaks work by steering light around a region of space, making any object inside that region invisible. In effect, an invisibility cloak creates the illusion of free space. This is possible because of a new generation of artificial materials called metamaterials that can, in principle at least, steer light in any way imaginable. Indeed, various teams have built real invisibility cloaks that hide objects from view in both the microwave and optical bands.
Interaxon team harnesses brainwaves to operate video games, gadgets and even levitating chairs.
While they ready the chair you can levitate with your mind, there’s time for a little concert.
Water squirts and pools on the floor as Steve Mann’s fingers fly across his “hydraulophone,” coaxing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” out of the tadpole-shaped instrument.
Psychologists have found that golfers who’ve played well perceive the hole as bigger than it really is. As this ScienCentral video explains, the researchers also found those who did poorly saw the hole as smaller than it really is.
My jaw hit the floor tonight watching a 60 Minutes segment on the emerging neuroscience of brain-only computer interfaces. In the clip (included in full below), see how a completely paralyzed man, who could otherwise only communicate by moving his eyes, uses his mind to type out thoughts on a computer screen.
Visionary illusionist, skeptic and magician, Jerry Andrusastounds the world with his illusions and special effects. At home in Oregon, which he calls “The Castle of Chaos,” Andrus fashions the mind boggling illusions which he exhibits all over the world. The world renowned magician continues to perform, invent, write and occasionally lectures on the subject of cognitive science. “I can fool you because you’re a human,” says Andrus, “You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we’re fooled, the mind hasn’t made a mistake. It’s come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.”
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This blog is a showcase of writing from the internet, work that is written by different authors, that relates to topics surrounding the mind and personal perception of reality. It features various articles and information that focus on areas of the mind such as personal awareness, new discoveries in science and technology, information on topics relating to personal perception of the world around us.
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Stacey T. Pollock is a writer who enjoys delving deep into the mind for answers to life and experiences.
This is true in my experience. I once played CounterStrike 4-on4 and I didn’t know that 2 of my teammates were gals. The watchers went crazy when we beat the better team composed of all male ace players. It’s as if my team read each other’s minds while playing without even eye contact. There were [...]
We now have google video for each program episode on the Theories of Everything website. All programs can be viewed via our Programs page (see left menu). Or, you can scroll down to the Quick Episode Links at the bottom of every page.
Welcome to the Theories of Everything website. Here you can find our science and philosophy programs that were previously broadcast on Community Television across Australia and are currently available for downloading on your player from Google Video and YouTube as well as on social networks and websites globally. last year the programs were also broadcast we […]
In the darkly funny film classic Harold and Maude, Harold is a 19-year-old who is obsessed with death and dying. He repeatedly fakes his own suicide, drives around in a hearse, and attends strangers’ funerals as a pastime. At one of these funerals he meets Maude, a 79-year-old with the same morbid hobby, and in one of the most unlikely romances on film, the […]
I take part in a spinning class a couple times a week, and I always position my bike so I can’t see the wall clock. Spinning is really hard, and I know from experience that the session will seem much longer and much more arduous if I have one eye on the clock. It still drags some days, but other days I really forget about the clock. Time flies.I know, it’s a […]
Friends of ours told us the other night about their grandson, now 7, who lives just down the street from them. That means he spends a lot of nights at their place, school nights included. And that means either his grandmother or his granddad (but usually his grandmother) is freighted with the task of rousting [...]
I don’t often experience writer’s block. Sleeping on a topic overnight is nearly always enough to return a free flow of ideas and images. But it was not working that way with this thing called The Singularity. For days, I tried without success to tie a literary bow around a supposition that had fast become [...]
There's an interesting article in Wired about how scientists deal with data that conflicts with their expectations and whether biases in how the brain deals with contradictory information might influence scientific reasoning. The piece is based on the work of Kevin Dunbar who combines the sociology of science with the cognitive neuroscience of scientifi […]
Nature.com reports that the remarkable Kim Peek, inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 film Rain Main, has passed away. Despite clear and disabling difficulties in day-to-day living, Peek accumulated an encyclopaedic knowledge of numerous subjects areas, could read two pages of a book at once and could instantly calculate the day of the […]
I've had a peaceful couple of months and although I don't mind spirit activity per se, I do not like how everything else malfunctions when spirits are present.I guess it was too good to last. The other evening around the usual 9:00-10.00 P.M. hour, when most of the unusual stuff occurs around here, my smoke detectors started screaming again. Reader […]
I just saw the movie, Twilight. This was one of the better done vampire movies woven around a love story.I've heard the books make for good reading, as well.
A robot that uses whiskers instead of cameras to see in the dark, a personal video network that lets users place cordless cameras virtually anywhere and view video in real time on the Web, and an electronic stethoscope that beams sounds to a doctor's PC by Bluetooth and renders a near-real-time graphical representation of the sounds onscreen are among P […]
Recently, I recalled practising meditation so I became good at it. What do I mean by good? Well, I wanted to meditate easily, enjoyably, with minimum distraction, being relaxed and still. Oh yeah, I wanted to be less stressed with less anxiety too. That's a lot of wants isn't it? I managed it with a simple practise that I built upon after spending […]
Like millions of other people upon this planet, I enjoy watching videos online. I felt it was time for an audio visual treat. I've watched some excellent instructional videos recently and I've embedded three of them here. I think you'll like what they show you. The topics are in the broad areas of Relaxation and Well Being. They cover themes o […]
Day 5 Today I am cheating. I’m handing over to Nicholas Cooper, the Curate at St.Mildred’s, Tenterden, soon to be Priest-in-Charge at St. Peter and St. Paul, Saltwood near Hythe. Over to you Nicholas. The work has been rewarding. For most of us carpentry has been entirely new experience, for others it brings back memories of GCSE [...]
Fellowship My previous blogs have harped on about the Tenterden team and the North-East team. Considering the incredible friendship that is developing between us all I feel it is time to introduce the North-East team and from then on we shall all be considered as one team. We have Stephen Squires Callum Squires Adam Squires Mark Squires Sally Jennings Les Co […]
A: You are going in a wrong direction. B: Honey, I know where I’m going. A: … in a wrong direction. B: Honey, pleeease! A: … B: O Gosh! I went in a wrong direction. Only “A” would not be quiet after “Honey, pleeease!” and “B” would not admit that he was wrong. Ok, I made my decision: ‘I’m writing today [...]
He is so successful …He has a good job, lots of money and beautiful wife. She is also very successful … She has him. Their friend is even more successful he has no job, some money and he is single. His sister made her dream come true … she has a baby. What is success? [...]
ScienceDaily— More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief.Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The medications are like arrows shot at the outer rings of […]
Don't rule out medications or psychotherapy for a mental disorder.People often seem to have their minds made-up in advance about how they need to be treated. Some want a pill and are very hesitant to seek therapy. Others don't like to take pills and will resist any suggestion that a medication might be helpful. In an earlier article I discussed the […]
The joy of living is from within, if you earnestly seek happiness then make the effort to seek the silence where you may begin to “enter into the spirit of that which you so desire”. Know that your Mind Power can solve for you every single problem, if you trust it and follow your intuition by [...]
The Mind is the all embracing power within, and the decision to train the mind in attaining your desires should be taken with determination and vigour. In doing this, you develop absolute faith in your ability to reach and overcome any challenge while on your way to your set goal or desire See it mentally as an [...]
“The plan is to engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain,”
Gullibility goes a long way, especially when people follow sites that are fictitious and when they get caught up in the hype that is associated with marketing strategies. Take a look at this site linked to the upcoming movie of 2012, called the IHC, which claims to be an organization that is working towards the continuity of the human species. Already a lot of gullible people have signed up for their lottery ticket from all around the world. I’m sure Sony Pictures is having a good laugh at their expense. This just shows how marketing and media manipulation can go a long way, and how truly gullible a lot of people really are. Don’t believe all that you read, see and hear!
