Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
Just over a year ago, on a visit to one of the world’s most prestigious research institutes, I challenged researchers there to account for intelligent human behaviour without reference to any aspect of the IP metaphor. They couldn’t do it
aeon.co • Your Brain Does Not Process Information and It Is Not a Computer | Aeon Essays
Could gaming enhance brain plasticity and executive functions (EFs) by fostering creativity? We identify vital benefits from further research exploring the relationship between games, brain plasticity, and creativity.
Christiane Ganter-Argast • (PDF) The light side of gaming: creativity and brain plasticity
While most people tend to be optimistic, those suffering from depression and anxiety have a bleak view of the future — and that in fact seems to be the chief cause of their problems, not their past traumas nor their view of the present. While traumas do have a lasting impact, most people actually emerge stronger afterward. Others continue... See more
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“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”
Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’
Chapter 18, The Dog Beneath the Skin from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
many of the quant-ities related to suffering are based on perceptions and similar uncertain infer-ences. The uncertainty will necessarily increase frustration since it means the predictions of reward often go wrong . More fundamentally, the computed reward loss can be uncertain, even illusory .
Aapo Hyvärinen • Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering
Alto Neuroscience
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The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux • 3 highlights
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Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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