thoughts about brains

From quantum mechanics we know that observing something changes its position or momentum, and so alters the state the object is in, preventi...

another component of this might have something to do with the difference between being asleep and being awake. Now (p. 136) they're talk...

now on p. 127 there's something more to do with objectivity... they're talking about how to apply information theory to brains, and ...

by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi Penguin Books: 2000 some notes on this book. The chapter i'm in is about the unity of conscious e...

the Rethinking Innateness and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience notes ended up in the powerpoint presentation, and I don't feel like ...

I actually have done a bunch of work since the last post. While I was in Boston, I read several chapters of a textbook called Developmental ...

Evolutionary Psychology and its critics: Samuels: Massive modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture EP says modules ...

Section 3: - present a behavioral systems model that regards the brain as a hierarchical control structure, where this hierarchical organiza...

I picked up a couple of the books that the Samuels paper pointed me to, but still haven't grabbed the Elman paper. The books are in vari...

from tonight's e-mail to Sandy: "quick update on my progress: I've found the secret cache of papers that talk about exactly wha...