tags: neuroscience
2007
June
- 2007 Jun 21
- gift or curse
The New York Times published an article about how eldest children tend to be ever-so-slightly more “intelligent” than their younger sibs. (Found on Newsvine.)
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August
- 2007 Aug 12
- atm (against the mainstream)
In an [article in the Chicago Sun-Times][1], Steven Pinker brings up some ideas that are often met with knee-jerk reactions. (The terms “sexist,” “racist,” and “fascist” seem to pop up in the brain for some reason.)
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2008
May
- 2008 May 9
- on the other side of the burn
I tend to pinpoint my inability to trust people on a single catastrophic event (the dissolution of a relationship), but now that I think hard about it, I wonder if I've always been distrusting. Some would say perhaps paranoid.
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July
- 2008 Jul 17
- emergent phenomenon
I am more at ease with the direction Hofstadter is taking his argument about how the actual architecture of the brain and the actual molecular arrangements of proteins on neurons do not need to be fully explicated in order to at least think about thought processes. This is the same way how you don't really need to know how a microprocessor actually works in order to program it in assembly.
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2015
October
- 2015 Oct 6
- Rituals
I miss reading Barking Up the Wrong Tree. I used to read it a lot more when Google Reader was still alive. Now I'm lucky if a bunch of people share links from it to Facebook.
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- The Human Brain and Cooking
This is an old TED talk but I heard it for the first time this past Saturday. The theory is that the reason why human intellectual capacity disproportionately surpasses the intellectual capacity of other species is because we learned how to cook.
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