A continuously updated blog post on the effects of tobacco and modern additives to human brain/bodies.
I really don't understand why there isn't a huge debate about a reevaluation of all drugs under the guidelines of modern drug research instead of this "legalize everything" debate. Stuff like Krokodil (see some effects after usage, even once or a few times at the google image search but be advised: very graphic ..) just isn't anything you should offer to try even under the assumption that people are behaving rational.
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Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011
Donnerstag, 10. November 2011
Samstag, 5. November 2011
CogSci: Embodied Cognition and Consciousness
Arguing against a Descartian dualism and for a interconnection between brain and body, the article at scientific american blogs gives nice pointers and references for an embodiment point of view of cognition. It's interesting to see if there is some "mind" kind of core in the biomachine that the human being actually is. The normal bio-chemic interconnection between mind and body seems to be quite natural as the mind needs the body to survive (and stay healthy) in order to do so itself.
At the thoughts on thoughts blog you'll find a 3 part post on the possible functions of consciousness which is an interesting topic to think about, especially keeping in mind the aforementioned article:
At the thoughts on thoughts blog you'll find a 3 part post on the possible functions of consciousness which is an interesting topic to think about, especially keeping in mind the aforementioned article:
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/10/20/possible-functions-of-consciousness-1-leading-edge-of-memory/
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/10/29/possible-functions-of-consciousness-2-gate-to-meaning/
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/11/04/possible-functions-of-consciousness-3-working-memory/
[edit] Slightly related, there is another article on the work our subconscious does for us at the discovery magazine. [/edit]
Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2010
Some pointers to articles
Some pointers to news, papers and interesting announcements:
In some German articles I was pointed to yet another book: The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
which I might read some time soon.
I finished reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist
, a really enjoyable book. The author suggested to read Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge 
. I reading it currently (only up to page 100 yet) and it's somewhat between enjoyable and frustrating to read.
- Neural responses and consumption behaviour
How concious are we when deciding about buying stuff? - Efficient quantum memory for light
A solid state quantum memory with higher efficiency than previous memory systems.
- Visualizations of the Ulam spiral
Just some pictures/graphics. - Manufactoria is a rather short but entertaining flash game.
In some German articles I was pointed to yet another book: The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
which I might read some time soon.I finished reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist
, a really enjoyable book. The author suggested to read Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge . I reading it currently (only up to page 100 yet) and it's somewhat between enjoyable and frustrating to read.
Donnerstag, 2. April 2009
Illusions
An interesting blog article named "Hallucinatory neurophysics
" can be found here: http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2005/02/hallucinatory-neurophysics.html. Unfortuntally I wasn't able to find the paper by now. (There are, by the way, some nice videos about hallucinatory drugs on youtube, and some good articles in Spektrum). And Jack Cowans appointment to math and neurology also sounds pretty interesting. Computational neuroscience seems to be a field of its own.
I came there via a blog about "imagining more than 3 dimensions" at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/03/30/why-cant-we-visualize-more-than-three-dimensions/.
That previous blog post reminded me of the "Imagining the tenth dimenson" video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY ) which I first watched years ago. This version contains some annotations taken from the book (for which the video is supposed to be pomotional material I guess). I found them not too easy to follow and I doubt the correctness of some claims. But to discuss this I'd need the book, but one at the first glace strange thing is his integration of Everett's many-world interpretation of quantum physics.
edit: I found a paper which seems to have a similar focus: "Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Euclidean Symmetry, and the Functional Architecture of Striate Cortex" at http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-1.pdf
" can be found here: http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2005/02/hallucinatory-neurophysics.html. Unfortuntally I wasn't able to find the paper by now. (There are, by the way, some nice videos about hallucinatory drugs on youtube, and some good articles in Spektrum). And Jack Cowans appointment to math and neurology also sounds pretty interesting. Computational neuroscience seems to be a field of its own.
I came there via a blog about "imagining more than 3 dimensions" at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/03/30/why-cant-we-visualize-more-than-three-dimensions/.
That previous blog post reminded me of the "Imagining the tenth dimenson" video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY ) which I first watched years ago. This version contains some annotations taken from the book (for which the video is supposed to be pomotional material I guess). I found them not too easy to follow and I doubt the correctness of some claims. But to discuss this I'd need the book, but one at the first glace strange thing is his integration of Everett's many-world interpretation of quantum physics.
edit: I found a paper which seems to have a similar focus: "Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Euclidean Symmetry, and the Functional Architecture of Striate Cortex" at http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-1.pdf
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