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To take it a step further, the implication is that without thought, the self does not, in fact, exist.
Chris Niebauer • No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
No brain has yet been emulated. Consider the humble model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, which is a transparent roundworm, about 1 mm in length, with 302 neurons. The complete connectivity matrix of these neurons has been known since the mid-1980s, when it was laboriously mapped out by means of slicing, electron microscopy, and hand-labeling of s
... See moreNick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
cognitive science
Mary Martin • 1 card
Consciousness is a gathering of knowledge sufficient to generate, in the midst of flowing images, automatically, the notion that the images are mine, are happening in my living organism, and that the mind is…well, mine too! The secret of consciousness is gathering knowledge and exhibiting that knowledge as a certificate of identity for the mind. Co
... See moreAntonio Damasio • Feeling & Knowing
Cognitive Science
Matthew Sparks • 1 card
Evolutionarily speaking, the prefrontal cortex is more recent than the amygdala, which is sometimes called the reptilian part of the brain.
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
