Scientists enhance fruit fly memory using mouse protein: New clue to fundamental brai http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-03/cshl-sef032202.php
aperiodic brain activity:stochastic chaos Quote: ______________________________________________ This form is consistent with Brownian motion and telegraph noise. The unpredictability of brain oscillations suggests that EEGs and MEGs manifest either multiple limit cycle attractors with time variance by continuous modulation, or multiple chaotic attractors with repetitive state transitions, or time-varying colored noise, or all of the above. In all likelihood these fields of potential are epiphenomenal, probably equivalent to the sounds of internal combustion engines at work, or to antique computers in science fiction movies, or to the roars of crowds at football games. ______________________________________________ http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/wjf/BD.Stochastic.chaos.name.pdf
Shaman, thanks. Interesting paper. Recently this hamster discussed with a friend research on building a neural net simulation to solve Raven Matrices. Major focus was on how dynamic neural nets could perform symbolic reasoning and learn. Very ambitious. Too ambitious. He couldn’t get his simulation of the nonlinear dynamics to converge. Would guess that some of the concepts mentioned in this paper might have helped.
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There is a special edition Scientific America in the newsstands NOW that is titled 'the hidden mind' and the whole magazine is dedicated to exploring the mind. It is interesting, but nothing new that I haven't seen on shows on discovery channel before. A good 'potty' read nonthelessPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! and while its not a 100% pertinent to the topic, read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" its a collection of very interesting physiological cases, VERY good read. easy to read at that.
Thought is simply this.... M + SP X L (memory) (sense perception) (language) I have no idea what im talking about. Peace
A most interesting string This subject of thought is a very perplexing riddle for me.I had a stroke about 2 years ago,and realised just how abstract thoughts really are,in losing my ability to talk ,see ,or move my right side, I realized that the responses we use to communicate are conditioned,habitual,reflexive responses that are common to anyone who has had the same training as another. Thoughts are totally abstract things,there is no real substance to them until they are expressed to another person in a way they can be understood. I am fully recovered now,it was just a lesson that god wanted me to learn,and please,if you want to go on about how god doesn't exist,go on in front of the mirror, I don't want to try to explain it to you through a keyboard. I am not a self proclaimed genius like many others on these forums,life is too short to have a battle of the brains,I just know what I know ,firsthand,OK?
Here's some interesting papers on abstract thought from my old lab. the most intersting being the one on time. http://www.mit.edu/~lera/papers/
Random websites of people (off the top of my head) writing on foundational issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/ http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/ Cognitive sciences eprint archive: http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Journal of Consciousness Studies: http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
Thought arises from universal self-definiteness. Thought is directed toward unfolding of the interaction that builds us. More info at http://www.eugenesavov.com
Nature of thought Hello! I hope you enjoy reading about nature of human thought at; http://education.vsnl.com/nimbkar/thought.html Cheers.
Thank you for the intersting link. For new insights in space, time and the universe you may enjoy the Sample Chapters and the other free downloads at http://www.eugenesavov.com Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Effects of Thoughts Can you please tell me that what can be the effects of our thoughts on our body . Suppose we think doing something good for others, then if cells of our body will also learn doing something good to our body & vice versa?? If the phrase i.e. " One who dig pit for others falls in to it himself " can be linked to this aspect. I don't remember the opposite pharse of this saying may be.. " One who make mountains for others climb on to it himself "Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! .:m:
Most of the posters deal with the essence of thought as Meaning. Here's a book that deals with the nature of thinking.