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Not long ago, we knew very little about learning and memory. Sure, we understood the basic concepts people could learn things, and then recall them later but they were black box processes, obfuscated by the complexity of the brain. Everyone knew what they were, but nobody could […]
SS2010 Highlights: Day 1: The Future of Human Evolution Michael Vassar: The Darwinian Method A solid talk about the scientific method and rationality. People can be rational without being scientific; good organizational structures can protect against bias (but may be being […]
I'll be at the Singularity Summit this weekend in San Francisco. Look for M. Edward Johnson. I'll also have rocking sideburns.
The brain is extraordinarily complex. We are in desperate need of models that decode this complexity and allow us to speak about the brain's fundamental dynamics simply, comprehensively, and predictively. I believe I have one, and it revolves around resonance. Neural resonance […]
I'm pretty sure I've found the future of medical diagnosis it's elegant, accurate, immediate, mostly doctor less, comprehensive, and very computationally intensive. I don't know when it'll arrive, but it's racing toward us and when it hits, it'll change everything. In short the […]
I'm flying out to Salt Lake City tomorrow for a month of thinking about neuroscience; I process ideas by writing, so I'm kicking off an open ended series of pieces dealing with the stuff I'm thinking about. Part 1: Neurobiology, psychology, and the missing link(s) Part 2: Gene […]
Here, I am reminded not of the recent past but of a huge change that occurred in the middle ages when humans transformed their cognitive lives by learning to read silently. Originally, people could only read books by reading each page out loud. Monks would whisper, of course, […]
Earlier this summer a pediatrician friend of mine was asking about ideas for health care reform since Olympia Snowe was going to stop by her hospital and talk with the doctors there. Unfortunately Snowe cut her visit short, but this is what I came up with: A simple and cheap […]
Via a NY Times article on the US China financial relationship: Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who ushered in its market reforms starting in the late 1970s, famously gave his country the following advice: “Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our […]
If I had to put together a list of the 7 Wonders of the Internet, archive.org would most certainly be on it. It's the website of a non profit organization which runs a huge server farm that tirelessly crawls the internet and saves what it finds. On the website, you can use their […]
