Tag Archives: Brain

Brain Power

Posted on January 4, 2015 by diplopi

I once wondered if one could lose weight by thinking harder, but it seems like the energy consumption in the brain is not a simple matter of greater mental effort sapping more of the body’s available energy. Even though a more … Continue reading →

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The Great Consciousness Swindle

Posted on November 13, 2014 by diplopi

James Kent, the author of Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason, debates dualism. “If I can convince you that something invisible exists, like an ‘invisible mind’, but I also say it is immaterial and can never be measured, then … Continue reading →

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Neurons that Fire Together Wire Together

Posted on November 11, 2014 by diplopi

New neural pathways are formed as a good habit or a bad habit develops. This is because an action that is performed over chemically alters the brain’s communication system. This is an ability in the brain called neuroplasticity, which regulates learning processes … Continue reading →

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Consciousness Explained by John R Searle

Posted on November 10, 2014 by diplopi

John Searle, one of the world’s great philosophers of mind and language, has something to say about consciousness as a biological phenomenon. Underneath the clip I have listed some of his arguments. And at the bottom there’s a link to his … Continue reading →

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Plasticity and the Capasity of the Brain

Posted on November 3, 2014 by diplopi

                Deep reading — the kind that you engage in when you get lost in the syntax and imagery and the long, convoluted sentences of a really meaty book — is a special … Continue reading →

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Conscious Experience Integrated in the Claustrum?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by diplopi

Recent experiments involving electrical stimulation suggest that there exists a brain center in humans, called the claustrum, that integrates our experience of the world. We already know that consciousness is not an ethereal concept, but a brain function that can be … Continue reading →

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The Walking Dead Sydrome

Posted on October 24, 2014 by diplopi

Since Halloween is coming up soon, its interesting to know that there are people walking around believing that they are actually dead. The Cotard delusion, or the walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental illness that causes a person to believe … Continue reading →

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Nobel Prize Recipients from Norway in Physiology or Medicine

Posted on October 6, 2014 by diplopi

              Congratulations to this year´s Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine and cognitive neuroscientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser from Norway together with John O´Keefe from UK, which have discovered an inner positioning system … Continue reading →

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Why Do Schizophrenics Hear Voices?

Posted on September 25, 2014 by diplopi

Neuroscientist David Eagleman and his team have conducted perception experiments on schizophrenics, and Eagleman theorize that schizophrenics suffer from something called ‘credit misattribution’. They hear voices, but don’t believe that they’re causing the voices themselves. The experiment suggest that the … Continue reading →

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Consciousness as a State of Matter

Posted on August 25, 2014 by diplopi

MIT’s Max Tegmark argues that consciousness is a state of matter, and by “matter,” he doesn’t mean that somewhere in the deep recesses of your brain is a small bundle of liquid, sloshing around and powering your sense of self … Continue reading →

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