Sublime

En tant que scientifique, je suis ne parfait accord avec Darwin, Gould, Pinker et Dawkins. Je n’ai aucune patience envers ceux qui défendent l’idée d’un dessein intelligent, du moins dans le sens où la plupart utilisent cette expression.

Uncertainty is a complex brain’s biggest challenge, and predictive coding evolved to help us reduce it. In general, the kind of precooked or conventionalized thinking this adaptation produces serves us well. But only up to a point. Precisely where that point lies is a question Robin Carhart-Harris and his colleagues have explored in an ambitious an

Sigmund Freud, faisait de la recherche en neurophysiologie

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.

The ego is linked to a structure in the brain called the amygdala, as I said above is commonly referred to as the fear centre of the brain.

In nineteen tubes nothing happened. The twentieth tube was filled with the amino acid phenylalanine, and only in that tube did new proteins form. Nirenberg and Matthaei had discovered the first entry in life’s dictionary: UUU equals phenylalanine. Over the