Over the last ten years great strides have been made in understanding the nature of thought. The ongoing research is very exciting. This thread is a place where people may share interesting articles describing the latest discoveries.
RESEARCH MAY LEAD TO JUMP-STARTING DAMAGED NERVE CELLS http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/nr/012002/dryernerve.htm
Split brain and identity Hemineglect...the left hand ignores there is a right hand http://www.braincampus.com/npsych/percept.html Dissociative identity Disorder (formerly multiple personality) http://www.benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd8.html
Ochre engraved from Blombos cave quote: "Two pieces of ochre engraved with geometrical patterns more than 70,000 years ago reveal that people were able to think abstractly and behave as modern humans much earlier than previously thought". http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/cape.nsf/pages/press
Mind Uplifting WhatsHerFace, posted this link on the “Life inside a Computer” thread. It’s a web site devoted to “Mind Uplifting” and has good material relevant to the Nature of Thought. http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html
Here is a site with a lot of links to online papers of philosophers of mind and cognition. Very relevant! http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/people.html
Is there a little Rain Man in each of us? Thanks to Shaman for the following: www.wismed.org/foundation/eachus.htm
Carnegie Mellon cognitive neuroscientist to present: 'The mind's eye and the brain's http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/cmu-cmc020802.php
Cris provided the following link on the neural basis of consciousness: http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/crick-koch-cc-97.html This very interesting article is an overview of the neural evidence for regions of the brain that are directly involved in consciousness. The final section discusses how the neurological view of consciousness compares to the philosopher view.
Synaesthesia How is the brain processing information? Synaesthesia -Perception, thought and language- http://psy.ucsd.edu/~edhubbard/JCS.pdf
Shaman, here's some "synfire chain" links and some general stuff thrown in. Have no idea if any of it will be new to you, or even useful. Lots of stuff... Have fun! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://proxy3.nj.nec.com/herrmann95analysis.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/postma96robust.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wennekers96controlling.html http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~dcs/research.html http://eva.ipi.uma.es/research/LESA/results.html http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS/
The man who lives in a rainbow Quote: _________________________________________________ 6:43 a.m. March 19, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- Black and white words on a page and the sounds of language explode into many colors in the mind of a middle-aged man. "Two" is blue, "2" is orange, "3" is pink and "traffic" is both blue and brown. The man has synesthesia -- an altered perception in which printed words and numbers burst with color, flavors take on shapes and the spoken language turns into a mental rainbow. _________________________________________________ www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51163,00.html
ImaHamster2: Maybe it is not the same kind of traffic...or is something special in the hamster's visual system?