More Brain Blogs
The website Online Education Database has compiled a list of 100 “fascinating” Brain Blogs, including ours. (Their title says “101 Fascinating Brain Blogs”, but as far as i can tell, they only list 100 blogs. Go figure.)
Sociology and Economics as Branches of Physics
Mark Buchanan, The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. Buchanan is an American physicist and former editor of Nature. In his latest book, he argues that the collective behavior of human beings can be understood …
Philosophers' Carnival #83
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Creationists discover consciousness
I’m writing up a series of posts at my neuroscience blog on the creationists’ recent discovery of consciousness. The first post is here. I’ll be looking at consciousness from many angles, but always through a neuropsychological lens. Since this is a philosophy forum, I’ll quote the bit that offended my …
Consciousness Online: 2nd Call for Papers
Only three more weeks left to submit a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference. For details see the conference website.
Another Large-Scale Brain Simulation
On the heels of the Blue Brain project, here’s another effort to simulate neural systems on a very large scale, with the provocative title “Cognitive Computing via Synaptronics and Supercomputing.” This link is to the PI’s blog: www.modha.org From DARPA’s announcement: “The end goal: ubiquitously deployed computers imbued with a …
Philosophers’ Carnival #82
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