December 2011
12 posts
If mind is what flows through the mechanism of the brain, does that make...
– The Neurobiology of ‘We’ - Parabola Magazine
The Future is a Virus - IEET.org →
This argument over authenticity lies at the heart of the neuroethicists’...
– The Battle for Your Brain - Reason Magazine
The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don’t put...
– Jeffrey Sachs: ‘That’s not a free market, that’s a game’ - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...
– Alan Moore (via decaying-organic-matter)
Taking this a couple of steps further, the article points out that, to many...
– The end of social - O’Reilly Radar
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...
– Albert Einstein (via sandygautam)
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience - NYTimes.com →
The problem is not with us realizing that people can feel at one with the...
– What’s the Point of Transcendence? : Sam Harris
One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its...
– Drugs and the Meaning of Life : Sam Harris]
Quantum computers, in short, may become extraordinarily powerful tools — but,...
– A computer that thinks like the universe - Ideas - The Boston Globe
Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...
– Isaac Asimov on science, creativity, and education in a rare Bill Moyers interview circa 1988 (via taylorlorenz)
<3 asimov
(via wallytheidol)