Clipmarks - Top Clips - January 13, 2008

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POPS Top Ten Thoughts for 2008

by constantskeptic 1-11-2008

wow... pretty poignant

37
POPS Mind Reading Is Now Possible

by wildcat 1-12-2008

"The more detailed the thought is, the more different these patterns get, because different people have different associations for an object or idea," says Haynes. "We're much closer to this than we were two years ago, but still far from a universal mind-reading machine." How far? The CMU group is determining the brain patterns that encode abstract ideas (honesty, democracy), words and sentences, a big step toward a mind-reading dictionary.

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POPS Culture influences brain function

by wildcat 1-12-2008

“Everyone uses the same attention machinery for more difficult cognitive tasks, but they are trained to use it in different ways, and it's the culture that does the training,”

29
POPS Hi!!!

by Lawl78 1-12-2008

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POPS Looking at the Sun Can Trigger a Sneeze

by wildcat 1-11-2008

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21
POPS Big Think: We are what you think

by Djiezes 1-13-2008

Sounds like a great resource.

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POPS Your Nose, Your Brain, Your Faith

by Antara 1-12-2008

Sam Harris article....very interesting! Rest of article: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/my-nose-my-brain-my-faith/

21
POPS Algorithmic Inelegance

by wildcat 1-12-2008

Life is a collection of kludges taped together by chance and filtered by selection for functionality; it all works magnificently well, but if you look under the hood you are simultaneously appalled by the sheer inelegance of the molecular gemisch and impressed with the accumulation of complexity.

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POPS NYC Cloning Historical Trees for Future

by wildcat 1-12-2008

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