don't just think, do something
Brains operate using perception-action cycles. Good programmers know that a key to fast code is a good data structure. Sensory inputs are like a data structure for the brain. Using your body and physical implements, you can shape the sensory data structure that your brain uses. Moving around to get a good look is thinking [...]
COB-11: education is the key to success
This month’s Carnival of the Bureaucrats highlights the bright future for U.S. bureaucracy. The Council of Graduate Schools’ Advisory Committee on Graduate Education and American Competitiveness has just released a 30-page report entitled Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation. The Executive Summary begins with it: It is tempting to be complacent about [...]
the Internet brain
There is no Chief Executive Officer neuron in a brain. In brains, the most general decision-making processes (top of the executive hierarchy) and the broadest and most abstract representations (top of the perceptual hierarchy) are physically instantiated in the broadest networks of neurons. That’s rather different from the structure of a company in which the [...]
Bike To Work Day
If you’re driving to work and see a cyclist, smile because that’s one less car clogging up the road in front of you. A bicycle on the road means less pollution in the air you breath, less damage to your environment, and lower health care costs that your taxes support. Hitting a cyclist can cause [...]
economics of social attention
Persons like to look at photographs of pretty girls and pretty boys. Taking objectification to a higher level, rigorous experimental testing (using photographs from Hot or Not, re-rated in a controlled laboratory procedure) has established that subjects discount the value of looking across time and trade money and work for viewing opportunities. These behavioral patterns [...]
Tagged: biology
just one view
Video never captures what it was really like. Video is fixed once and forever. Memory can keep getting better and better. No need for brain surgery. Just good conversation and expanding life. Click To Play Video [if you don't see the video, try here]
sports news
Third Eye News covers today’s Princeton v. Georgetown lacrosse game (first round of the NCAA tournament). [if you don't see the video, try here]