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which the brain simply invents (there are only a few ways in which a natural language

partly because we don’t understand the brain at that level

activating brain circuitry associated with reward. In one study

massively connected and promiscuous brain

Fehr and his colleagues put people in a brain scanner and used a technique

including folding the surface of the brain

… Ben Goertzel, Joel Pitt, Matthew Ikle, Cassio Pennachin, and Rui Liu. Glocal memory: a design principle for artificial brains and minds. Neurocomputing, April 2010. GPPGO06. Ben Goertzel, Hugo Pinto, Cassio Pennachin, and Izabela Freire Goertzel. Using dependency pars- ing and...

…rovides many such fascinating stories, along with their medical backgrounds. The fruit and vegetable case suggests our brains are organized like a filing cabinet. When we damage a part of the brain, it’s like losing a drawer: All the information stored in that drawer is lost. Qu...

inhibiting serotonin uptake and increasing dopamine activity in the brain. Scientists

it goes straight to the brain. Relative to the

and studies of human and nonhuman aggression reveal different brain mechanisms underlying

and the brain can repurpose the visual cortex to other

…heir hands.” Accompanying the television image of a couple of eggs sizzling in a frying pan, the phrase, “This is your brain on drugs” has always carried negative connotations, but apparently General McCaffrey has changed his mind about that. He now seems to believe that drugs c...

…to fuse two differing contextual worlds may be transporting. Geometric visions can be used to do imageless algebra in a brain state that feels like intuition. The brain does something like this: Let the number of a sequence of unit squares, each side of measuring 0 to 1, be the d...

… a sense, vision and audition are redundant for understanding the everyday world. However, it may be important that the brain has evolved to account for both of these senses, because this forced it to account for the presence of two very rich and precise methods of sensing the wo...