How it is possible to live fairly normally with half your brain missing
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Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient
This from Slate — now here are a couple of premises for a counter-factual story: If nothing else, Macmillan says, “Phineas’s story is worth remembering because it illustrates how easily a small stock of facts can be transformed into popular and scientific myth.” Indeed, the myth-making continues today. “Several people have approached me with a…
Secrets of the Creative Brain
This from The Atlantic BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityIQKurt Vonnegutmental illnessmriNANCY ANDREASENneuronsneurosciencePhilosophy of mind
Extending the mind: a review of ethnographies of neuroscience practice
This from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeethnographyExtended MindExternalismhuman brain projectneurosciencescience and technology studies
The Trouble With Brain Science
This from the NYT. Brainbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessgary marcusHuman brainmapping the brainNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Q+A with Antonio Damasio
This from MIT Technology Review (H/T to Mark Frazier). He believes that neurobiological research has a distinctly philosophical purpose. There was something that appealed to me because of my interest in literature and music. We wouldn’t have music, art, religion, science, technology, economics, politics, justice, or moral philosophy without the impelling force of feelings. I would…
Some recent “Extended Mind” papers
Extended mind and after: socially extended mind and actor-network by Kono, Tetsuya Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Personal Identity, Functionalism and the Extended Mind by Stanciu, Marius M Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Minds as social institutions by Castelfranchi, Cristiano Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge by Ludwig,…
David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014)
H/T to Andrew Irvine. DMA’s wiki entry. david armstrongExternalismfunctionalismMaterialismmetaphyicsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Paul Bloom on The War on Reason
Paul Bloom in The Atlantic For the most part, I’m on the side of the neuroscientists and social psychologists—no surprise, given that I’m a psychologist myself. Work in fields such as computational cognitive science, behavioral genetics, and social neuroscience has yielded great insights about human nature. I do worry, though, that many of my colleagues…
Musical hallucinations
A report on a paper recently published in Cortex. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencehallucinationmusicneurophenomenologyneuroscienceOliver Sacksphantom music
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