Human Race Project

< anthecker

It is time for humanity to wake up, unite itself, and take responsibility for its actions. This pearltree documents content I find useful in building global awareness of human problems and in finding solutions to those problems. No problem is too small, no problem is too big for the Human Race. This is the first time in human history that we have the opportunity to end poverty and disease and war, perhaps even to end death and make a future for ourselves and our descendents that is whatever we want it to be. If your cause is the human cause, will you join me in curating this tree? Feb 9

Veganism

We’re quite different but we still sleep together

Almost every day ends the same, with me lying unconsious on top of my favorite possession — my pillowtop queen. There are exceptions, such as when I travel, where I end up unconscious on some other horizontal surface, but it’s as sure a rule as any that no matter what kinds of wild or unpredictable events happen during the day, the conclusion is quite predictable: me, horizontal and comatose. I know it’s the same for you, and everyone else too. Just about everything else between us is different though. There are seven billion people in the middle of their lives at any given moment, whose days differ from each other in almost every respect. The events and thoughts that fill a normal day are so distinct to each individual that it’s probably impossible for any one person to imagine quite how it feels to live a day in the life of another.

The nature vs. nurture debate pitted the hard and social sciences against each other for decades, if not centuries, stirred by a central concern with consciousness , what it means to be human , what makes a person , and, perhaps most interestingly to us egocentric beings, what constitutes character and personality . In Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are , MIT Professor of Computational Neuroscience Sebastian Seung proposes a new model for understanding the totality of selfhood, one based the emerging science of connectomics — a kind of neuroscience of the future that seeks to map and understand the brain much like genomics has mapped the genome. A “connectome” denotes the sum total of connections between the neurons in a nervous system and, like “genome,” implies completeness. It’s a complex fingerprint of identity, revealing the differences between brains and, inversely, the specificity of our own uniqueness.

Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You | Brain Pickings

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Efficiency

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Poverty