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Charles Limb: Your brain on improvisation (TED Talks)

Posted by Prowisorio on Thursday, January 13, 2011, In : filosofie 


Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. 

Charles Limb: Your brain on improvisation (TED Talks) 

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Antropomorfisme: Why we treat things like people

Posted by Prowisorio on Monday, November 29, 2010, In : filosofie 
Cursing computers, talking to plants, even putting pigs on trial: anthropomorphism may be irrational, but it's how we cope with an indifferent world

IT WAS a classic open-and-shut case. As Jehan Martin slept in his bed an intruder crept in, killed him and mutilated his body. Witnesses had seen a female enter the house on the day of the attack. She was subsequently taken into custody and tried in court. The trouble was the perpetrator happened to be a pig.

Historical records document at least 20...

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Neuro-realisme

Posted by Prowisorio on Saturday, October 30, 2010, In : filosofie 
[...] brain imaging "provides visual proof that acupuncture alleviates pain". The reality, of course, is much simpler: for your own personal experience of pain, which is all that matters, if you say that your pain is relieved, then your pain is relieved (and I wish good luck to any doctor who tells his patient their pain has gone, when it hasn't, just because some magical scan says it has). [...]

Lost your libido? Let's try a little neuro-realism, madam (Ben Goldrace in The Guardian)


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