David Eagleman has a great approach to science.
Here's a link to his TED talk ... he has done some great research about synesthesia and time perception. I'm not sure if it's on-topic, but, hey ...
Myth and Neuroscience at TEDx
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Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
This was an amazing video - I was going to start a thread about this left brain/right brain phenomena, but we've kicked around the idea of neuroplasticity around here in a few places before. This thread already exists & I think it will work -
I plan on following up on her work, but wanted to share this with y'all - enjoy! It's only about 20 minutes...
This was an amazing video - I was going to start a thread about this left brain/right brain phenomena, but we've kicked around the idea of neuroplasticity around here in a few places before. This thread already exists & I think it will work -
I plan on following up on her work, but wanted to share this with y'all - enjoy! It's only about 20 minutes...
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It's particularly powerful coming from someone familiar, from an external perspective, with what happens in the brain and being able to sync that with personal interior experience - but even if she weren't a brain scientist, her account would still be fascinating. Jill Bolte Taylor's story of her trauma, coupled with Steve Jobs' last words - "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow" - tend to temper my own fear of the unknown ...
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Here's another one from TEDed Jane Hirshfield: The art of the metaphor
Not neuroscience maybe, but interesting, for sure.
Peace,
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Not neuroscience maybe, but interesting, for sure.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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The interspecies internet: Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf at TED2013
Wow - that's all I got on this...
Wow - that's all I got on this...
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
~Max Planck
~Max Planck