I am mystified by the polls that show how popular Sarah Palin with women voters, but today I got an email from a fan of the Brain Science Podcast who pointed me to a piece by Sam Harris that may shed some light on the phenomena. Harris is a neuroscientist and he observes that when [...]
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Episode 43 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Robert A Burton, MD, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not, which I discussed in Episode 42. Dr. Burton tells us what inspired him to write this book and we explore some of the implications of the [...]
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Episode 42 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert Burton, MD. This part 1 of a two part discussion of the unconscious origins of what Dr. Burton calls “the feeling of knowing.” In Episode 43 I will interview Dr. [...]
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The blog Journey to Perplexity notes that Gerald Edelman’s book Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge offers some valuable insights into why “the mind is not a computer.” I am not sure who writes this blog, but he seems to be writing from a philosophical background.
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-mind-is-not-a-computer/
Its been a while since I read [...]
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The February 9th episode of All in the Mind is an excellent interview of author Jonah Lehrer about his book Proust was a Neuroscientist. In the interview Lehrer reflects on the danger of viewing science as the sole source of discovery, but he also talks a little about several of the people explored in his [...]
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The Philosopher’s Zone is one of the excellent Australian podcasts that I listen to regularly.
The episode of January 12, 2007 is especially relevant to our recent discussion of embodied intelligence. Host Alan Saunders interviews Matt Carter, author of Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
Their conversation is a good brief [...]
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Show Notes
Episode #15 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Read Montague of the Baylor School of Medicine. We discuss his recent book, Why Choose this Book? How we Make Decisions (2006).
Here are some of the questions we discussed:
What is computational neuroscience?
What is the computational theory of the mind (CTOM)?
How is [...]
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In this episode of the Brain Science Podcast we explore the recent research that has established, contrary to long-standing dogma, that our brains our able to change throughout our lives, based on our experience.
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Show Notes for Episode 9
This episode is a discussion of The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience by British neuroscientist, Steven Rose. Unlike most episodes of the Brain Science Podcast, the emphasis of this episode is on asking what kind of ethical dilemmas might be posed by our increased [...]
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On the Brain Science Podcast #5 I talked about Consciousness and mentioned that David Chalmers is a proponent of a modern version of dualism and also quite concerned with what he calls the hard problem, which is explaining the subjective nature of consciousness, which he has called qualia. If you would like to hear him [...]
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