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Bookmark Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20…
Try to imagine what it is like to be a fungus. Not a mushroom, pushing up through damp soil overnight or delicately forcing itself out through the bark of a rotting…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments
Podcast Cache Daniel Dennett interview
Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

August 15 2019, 4:35am | Comments
Bookmark Orion Magazine | Deep Intellect
ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality.…

November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Orion Magazine | Deep Intellect
ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality.…

November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Small brown pebble found on East Sussex beach is pickled dinosaur brain
The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of number of connections is…
Authors: R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, J.L. Perez Velazquez Abstract: It has been said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity, and…

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Are Humans the Greatest Things Made by the Human Hand? - Facts…
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties…
Soft-bodied cephalopods such as the octopus (Fig.

August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking - Issue 24: Error -…
Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of…

May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments
Bookmark Phys.Org Mobile: Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone
Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone Apr 14, Technology/Hi Tech & Innovation Full size image Credit: Green Brain Project The team of researchers working on the The Green Brain…

April 23 2015, 12:26am | Comments
Bookmark Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture
Sarah Perry is a guest blogger who blogs at Carcinisation and is the author of Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide.

January 24 2015, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Moxon's Master/Bierce
I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his…

December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED
HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments
Bookmark According to neuroscientists, the future of cinema will eliminate the use of…
Since the beginning of cinema, filmmakers have relied on cutting from one image to another in order to tell a visual story. The human brain naturally fills in the gaps between…

May 7 2014, 1:35pm | Comments
Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…
Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Seen and Unseen: Could There Ever Be a “Cinema Without Cuts”? |…
Astronauts on a routine repair mission for the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves coping with more than they bargained for in the pulse-pounding opening sequence of Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film, Gravity.…

May 7 2014, 1:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Ants Swarm Like Brains Think - Issue 12: Feedback - Nautilus
Deborah Gordon spent the morning of August 27 watching a group of harvester ants foraging for seeds outside the dusty town of Rodeo, N.M. Long before the first rays of sun…

April 28 2014, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark The brain’s data compression mechanisms
Researchers have hitherto assumed that information supplied by the sense of sight was transmitted almost in its entirety from its entry point to higher brain areas, across which visual sensation is…

March 18 2014, 12:44pm | Comments
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Google and the World Brain » thought maybe

March 5 2014, 5:49am | Comments
Tumblr Another Brain from Planet Arous?

February 7 2014, 3:05am | Comments
Tumblr The Brain from Planet Arous

February 1 2014, 6:38am | Comments
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments
Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…
Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…
Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments
Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box
Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments
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In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments
Bookmark Man as Machine
A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

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