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Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another

Sofia Quaglia aeon.co

Beyond the argument from equivalence, there’s another argument for group minds. This is the argument from modularity . Modularity is a common hypothesis in cognitive science (and evolutionary psychology), which is essentially that parts of your mind act like mini-minds themselves, and then pass on their results.

Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by

My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

Consciousness Explained

Daniel C. Dennett

amazon.com

The Real Neuroscience of Creativity

Jason G. Goldman blogs.scientificamerican.com

Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.