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

Neuroplasticity in the adult brain is gated by neuro-modulators. Epinephrine creating alertness and attention, asidocoline highlighting what happens during the alertness for later plasticity and strengthening the neurons making them more likely to fire later.

Andrew Huberman • How Your Brain Works & Changes

“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”

Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’

High levels of activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, for example, have been linked to optimism and extroversion, while greater activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (an area of the brain a few inches behind the

Annie Murphy Paul • The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

Le nombre de circuits utilisés était très variable d'un individu à l'autre, ce qui suffisait selon lui à expliquer les innombrables gradations entre l'imbécillité et le génie. Mais, chose encore plus remarquable, un circuit neuronal fréquemment emprunté devenait, par suite d'accumulations ioniques, de plus en plus facile à emprunter – il y avait en

Michel Houellebecq • La possibilité d'une île (French Edition)

there is a class of conscious experiences that come with a degree of lucidity uncommon in normal life. By and large, their mere existence was denied by science until the last century, and their study was consigned to the intellectual hinterlands of psychology, at the intersection of spiritualism, the paranormal, and the esoteric. But they are nothi

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

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