Thursday, March 01, 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Apes and Human | Are we Different from Chimps? Not Much
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Professor George Lakoff on Non-Conscious Mental Processing
Prof. George Lakoff - Reason is 98% Subconscious Metaphor in Frames & Cultural Narratives. The rational actor model is not how human make decision.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Sunday, March 07, 2010
The riddle of experience vs. memory and its effect on happiness
Dr. Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Memorial prize in 2002 for his work with Tversky, who died before the award was bestowed. In a lovely passage in his Nobel biography, Kahneman looks back on his deep collaboration with Tversky and calls for a new form of academic cooperation, marked not by turf battles but by "adversarial collaboration," a good-faith effort by unlike minds to conduct joint research, critiquing each other in the service of an ideal of truth to which both can contribute.
via ted.com
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Simulated Brain in a Super Computer
Blue Brain Image from Switzerland
In the microscopic, yet-uncharted circuitry of the cortex, Henry Markram is perhaps the most ambitious -- and our most promising -- frontiersman. Backed by the extraordinary power of the IBM Blue Gene supercomputing architecture, which can perform hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, he's using complex models to precisely simulate the neocortical column (and its tens of millions of neural connections) in 3D. Source
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Sir Ken Robinson on Education and Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson is a creativity expert.
He challenges the way we're educating our children, and champions a radical rethinking of our school systems to better cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. His latest book, The Element, looks at how we find our creative passion.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Art, Music, Emotions, Love and Human Evolution
University of California TV presents a talk by the three world-renowned researchers
1. Antonio Damasio: University of Southern California and Author of several popular books inluding
These scientists share their insights and research work into the neural basis of art, creativity, emotions and music and the powerful roles they play in human evolution.
1. Antonio Damasio: University of Southern California and Author of several popular books inluding
The Feeling of what Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
2. Helen Fisher Rutger University and author of bookWhy we love: the nature and chemistry of romantic love
3. Isabelle Peretz University of MontrealThe Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology: What Deficits Reveal about the ... - Page 519Music Perception and Recognition Isabella Peretz All human societies have music.As far as we know, they have always had. Unlike other widespread human. |
These scientists share their insights and research work into the neural basis of art, creativity, emotions and music and the powerful roles they play in human evolution.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Psychologically Speaking What Does "Free Will" Really Mean
Dr. John Bargh is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University. His work is in the area of "Automaticity" where he investigate about our Automatic Behavior. His Laboratory at Yale:
Our Behavior are not as free as we would like them to be.
The ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion) Lab at Yale focuses on nonconscious or automatic influences on psychological and behavioral processes. In one way or another, all of our studies address the issue of free will, and how much of it do we as individuals really have. We are interested in the extent to which all social psychological phenomena -- attitudes and evaluations, emotions, impressions, motivations, social behavior -- occur nonconsciously and automatically. Currently, our research is actively exploring how social goals such as to cooperate, achieve, become friends, and so on, are triggered and operate without the person's awareness. We also are looking at the potential sources of these nonconscious motivations in real life settings, for example, the significant others in our lives can be one major source. A related question is how these various sources of nonconscious influence interact with each other, and how much of our 'real life' experience is governed by them. We are also starting to look at emotional experience as a potential internal trigger of goals and future intentions. That all of these effects occur without the person's intention and awareness, yet have such strong effects on the person's decisions and behavior, has considerable implications for the nature and purpose of consciousness. By discovering those domains of social life in which conscious, deliberate processes are not necessary, we can shed more light on what consciousness is needed for -- that is, what its true purpose is. SourceHe gave a talk discussing the issue of "Free Will" during a symposium at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention in Tampa, FL.
Our Behavior are not as free as we would like them to be.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Prof Richard Davidson: Be Happy Like a Monk
Professor Richard Davidson describes the brain activity of a monk.
Monday, July 20, 2009
What is Unique about Human
Robert Sapolsky is currently a professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a big time primatlogist who studies Baboons in Africa.
In this lecture he talks about what is unique about human.
In this lecture he talks about what is unique about human.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
Terence Mckenna, a self taught ethno-botanist uses interesting metaphor of operating system to appeal to the sensibilities of technical types who insist on modeling real life phenomenon.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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