Artist Manipulates Water With The Power Of Her Mind "Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?” asked existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Exploring questions of vulnerability, self-control, and liberation, Park recreates a scene that looks as if it's been lifted from your favorite Kung-Fu movie or an outtake from Kill Bill. Park is working with the experimental brain-computer technologies of the NeuroSky EEG headset, which you might remember from the Necomimi cat ear headset we wrote about a while back. Though the data is robust, it's mostly inscrutable to the untrained eye. So, how does she actually make the water vibrate? Her apparatus functions similarly to the ones used in cymatics, the study of visible sound. When Park calibrated the audio with the EEG data, she would associate specific emotions with certain people on recall. She intends to build a more dramatic exhibit of Eunoia and attempt her demonstration again.
Lumière des Mondes / Viviane-Josée Restieau En ce moment-clé d’Elévation de la conscience planétaire, une concordance révélatrice de synchronicité fête l’éclosion de l’œuf pascal. Une trinité de création éclot en effet dans l’émergence d’une vie novatrice – dans une même Unité d’Esprit. 1-Sortie le 7 avril du livre de Pierre Rabhi : « Sobriété heureuse ». Edition Acte Sud . 144 pages 2-Sortie le 7 avril, également, du film de Coline Serreau :« Solutions locales pour un désordre global ». 3-Et sur Internet, une vidéo du professeur Luc Montagnier, transmise par la présidente des homéopathes de France, Martine Gardénal : « un film qui est en train de rafler tous les prix dans les festivals de reportage aux USA sur le sujet SIDA » et sortira en France cet été Simplicité, fidélité à la nature, responsabilité universelle solidaire : le lapin de la fécondité peut batifoler joyeusement et l’œuf nourrissier ……..
The Experience and Perception of Time What is ‘the perception of time’? The very expression ‘the perception of time’ invites objection. Insofar as time is something different from events, we do not perceive time as such, but changes or events in time. Kinds of temporal experience There are a number of what Ernst Pöppel (1978) calls ‘elementary time experiences’, or fundamental aspects of our experience of time. Duration One of the earliest, and most famous, discussions of the nature and experience of time occurs in the autobiographical Confessions of St Augustine. Augustine's answer to this riddle is that what we are measuring, when we measure the duration of an event or interval of time, is in the memory. Whatever the process in question is, it seems likely that it is intimately connected with what William Friedman (1990) calls ‘time memory’: that is, memory of when some particular event occurred. The specious present The term ‘specious present’ was first introduced by the psychologist E.R. Here is one attempt to do so. Φ-β-κ
Beautiful Minds: The Psychology of the Savant In the field of brain research there is no subject more intriguing than the savant - an individual with mental, behavioral, or even physical disability who possesses acute powers of observation, mathematical aptitude, or artistic talent. This three-part series provides an enthralling look into the psychology and neuroscience of the savant’s mysterious world. 3-part series, 53 minutes each. Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information. Reudiger Gamm performs complex arithmetic instantly and without help - his brain stores numbers like a calculator. Orlando Sorrel remembers exactly what he was doing on any date, at any hour, and can accurately predict the day of the week thousands of years in the future. The Einstein Effect: Savants and Creativity. A Little Matter of Gender: Developmental Differences among Savants. Watch the full documentary now (playlist - 2 hours, 38 minutes)
How Language Influences The Way We View The World A fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal tackles the question of whether language influences culture, and how we think – citing cognitive research into the subject, and numerous examples from various languages and nations. At the expense of oversimplifying, some of the key observations we picked out include: The observations and findings of this research may help us better understand differences in global perceptions, consumer articulations and how a story is told, with implications for everyone from marketers to artists, educators to journalists. Wall Street Journal: “Lost in Translation”
Neuroscience clues to who you arent Michael Bond, consultant THE problem of the self - what it is that makes you you - has exercised philosophers and theologians for millennia. Today it is also a hotly contested scientific question, and the science is confirming what the Buddha, Scottish philosopher David Hume and many other thinkers maintained: that there is no concrete identity at the core of our being, and that our sense of self is an illusion spun from narratives we construct about our lives. Bruce Hood's The Self Illusion is a thoroughly researched and skillfully organised account of the developments in psychology and neuroscience that are helping to substantiate this unsettling vision of selfhood. He casts a long line, exploring subjects such as free will, the unconscious, the role of (false) memories in building identity, as well as myriad social psychology experiments showing how people behave differently according to the situation they are in. American DNA holds some surprising secrets Debora MacKenzie, consultant
Mind-reading scan identifies simple thoughts - health - 26 May 2011 A new new brain imaging system that can identify a subject's simple thoughts may lead to clearer diagnoses for Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia – as well as possibly paving the way for reading people's minds. Michael Greicius at Stanford University in California and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain activity associated with different mental states. He asked 14 volunteers to do one of four tasks: sing songs silently to themselves; recall the events of the day; count backwards in threes; or simply relax. Participants were given a 10-minute period during which they had to do this. For the rest of that time they were free to think about whatever they liked. The participants' brains were scanned for the entire 10 minutes, and the patterns of connectivity associated with each task were teased out by computer algorithms that compared scans from several volunteers doing the same task. Read my mind Diagnostic test and adverts. Recommended by
Jose Luis Sampedro: “un autre monde est certain” José Luis Sampedro, écrivain et économiste espagnol de 94 ans, s'exprimait à la veille des manifestations du 15 mai sur les origines de la crise du système économique. Interview. Les sous-titres sont disponibles en cliquant sur “CC”, en anglais, et pour le français en version béta. José Luis Sampedro, écrivain espagnol et économiste de 94 ans, a accordé un entretien à Movimiento Visual le 14 mai, la veille des manifestations organisées par le mouvement ¡Democracia Real Ya! Sampedro a connu la guerre d’Espagne, vécu sous le franquisme et enseigné l’économie pendant plusieurs années à l’université Complutense de Madrid et à l’étranger. Avec une lucidité et une énergie incroyable, il expose les raisons qui ont mené les Espagnols à se révolter et descendre dans la rue, contre la classe politique actuelle et sa manière de gouverner, contre les mesures d’austérité économiques imposées pour “sortir de la crise”. La crise des valeurs : Notre culture occidentale vit une crise des valeurs brutale.
PSICOSYSTEM Neuroscience of Free Will On several different levels, from neurotransmitters through neuron firing rates to overall activity, the brain seems to "ramp up" before movements. This image depicts the readiness potential (RP), a ramping-up activity measured using EEG. The onset of the RP begins before the onset of a conscious intention or urge to act. Some have argued that this indicates the brain unconsciously commits to a decision before consciousness awareness. Philosophers like Daniel Dennett or Alfred Mele consider the language used by researchers. Overview[edit] ...the current work is in broad agreement with a general trend in neuroscience of volition: although we may experience that our conscious decisions and thoughts cause our actions, these experiences are in fact based on readouts of brain activity in a network of brain areas that control voluntary action... Patrick Haggard discussing[15] an in-depth experiment by Itzhak Fried[16] Free will as illusion[edit] Relevance of scientific research[edit] William R.
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