Simply mentioning the concept of “g”, or general intelligence, in some university faculties causes mouths to froth and eyes to roll uncontrollably in their sockets. “Intelligence is a social construct!” they wail, waving dog-eared copies of Gould’s “The Mismeasure of Man” around like crucifixes at a vampire.
There are myriad ways of obscuring the [...]
from slashdot:
“In an interview with Discover Magazine, Gerald Edelman, Nobel laureate and founder/director of The Neurosciences Institute, discusses the quality of consciousness and progress in building brain-based-devices. His lab recently published details on a brain model that is self-sustaining and ‘has beta waves and gamma waves just like the regular cortex.’”
You should be daydreaming more. It increases complex thought.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that activity in numerous brain regions increases when our minds wander. It also finds that brain areas associated with complex problem-solving – previously thought to go dormant when we daydream – are in fact [...]
According to a recent report, up to 40 percent of coma patients in a ‘vegetative state’ may be misdiagnosed.
“The biggest, most tragic clinical myth about brain injury today is that PVS can be reliably diagnosed by bedside observation alone. It has in fact been known for at least a decade, ever since a key [...]