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Category Archives: Neuroscience

When Experts Get off Their Turf

Posted on March 11, 2024 by waz — Leave a reply

Yuval Noah Harari: NYT Bestselling Israeli historian. Pof. Harari writes some interesting books about humans: popular and entertaining chronicles of our history and possible future. As a PhD and Professor Continue Reading →

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Zombies, 747’s, and the Absurd.

Posted on January 4, 2022 by waz — Leave a reply

David Chalmers the philosopher has become famous for his musings on consciousness which I have written on before, here and HERE. He has proposed that the supposed “Hard Problem” of Continue Reading →

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“Its the Brain, Stupid!”

Posted on December 20, 2021 by waz — Leave a reply

David Eagleman on Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s YT channel Closer to Truth discusses the brain and mind and his views on consciousness. Eagleman is a successful author and popular neuroscientist who Continue Reading →

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A World in Our Heads

Posted on April 3, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

This essay is about what do we do with our consciousness, every waking minute of thought: model the future and plan behaviors in the world that we consider doing the Continue Reading →

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Father’s Day Musings on Cognitive Evolution

Posted on June 22, 2019 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

If you wiki the term “concept”, you can read for 1/2 hour on the different attempts at definitions of what a concept is: an idea, a mental representation, an abstraction… Continue Reading →

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Reluctantly: On Free Will (and Consciousness).

Posted on February 21, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

Do we have free will, or does our brain choose everything we think or do as a result of previous brain states and sensory inputs, and it could not have Continue Reading →

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On Consciousness: Part 2. “What’s it like to be…?”

Posted on November 18, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a number of researchers on the subject, declares that animals have consciousness because they have similar neural structures to those we humans Continue Reading →

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Old Ideas Die Hard (but they do eventually)

Posted on September 18, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

We are a recalcitrant species. Stubbornness, when manifested as stick-to-it-iveness, is a hallmark of our very human tenacity and cleverness to adapt to almost any environment on earth. In the Continue Reading →

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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Neuroscience: “Buddha’s Brain”

Posted on July 6, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

A short book review of the above. (13 chapters plus appendix, 234 pages, 196 references). From the Forward: “The authors have woven together Buddhist practices developed over two thousand years Continue Reading →

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On Consciousness: A Human Conceptual Construction. Part 1 “The Self.”

Posted on June 27, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

A recent article from Science Alert asked the very pertinent question What Exactly is Consciousness: And Can We Replicate It?. OK, lets try and answer that question with what we Continue Reading →

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