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This is an swag interdisciplinary point of entry to such related fields as cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and linguistics.
Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes.
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Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mind_and_Brain
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Tattoo You | h+ MagazineTattoo You Silicon LEDs can act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings Written By: Surfdaddy Orca
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Intel's Mind-Reading Chips: Replace Your Mouse With Your BrainYou know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your thoughts. intel brain
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Words, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain RegionsWords, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain Regions ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) — Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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Your Brain on Books. How the mind makes sense of written language | Scientific AmericanIn his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” neuroscientist S. Dehaene describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. (...) We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent ...
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15The Neurology of Spiritual Experience | h+ Magazineif that floats your boat, what do you think of these? http://tiny.cc/ttgfC http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FreemanWWW/manuscripts/IF8/99.htmltj dreves added 5 weeks ago
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The Neurology of Spiritual Experience | h+ MagazineInteresting line in the article: "The brain is trapped within itself. So we never really know what is really going on out there. But to live we need to make all sorts of assumptions about the nature of reality just to govern behavior."Tima Vlasto added 5 weeks ago
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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York MagazineIt turns out being polyphasic may be bad for driving but essential for navigating the informational tsunami washing over our brains...David Solie added 2 months ago
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1Study Demonstrates How We Support Our False BeliefsRepublicans (and their attack dogs, who now "share" mastery of the party along with corporations) have become masters at disseminating such "faulty information" (see the health care reform lies). After all, it is SO MUCH EASIER to be immoral and lie than it is to be moral and responsible ... ...JDP added 3 months ago
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