Tag Archives: consciousness

The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder

Posted on May 8, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

https://7c09d782e2b4ee419e7951992c76d0ee.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-45/html/container.htmlArtificial Intelligence Claude of the Gaps The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder Someone needs to step in. By Frank Landymore Published May 7, 2026 10:07 AM EDT Add Futurism(opens in a new tab)More information Sign up to … Continue reading →

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Harvard Medical School: Scientists Create First-Ever ‘Smell Map’. Comment 30+ years since TBI, as well as losing hearing in my right ear, I lost the sense of smell. The constact response people gave oh you are so lucky. Smell is important, I can vouch for this

Posted on May 5, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Search Breadcrumb Scientists Create First-Ever ‘Smell Map’ A detailed diagram of smell receptors in the nose fills in missing details of how olfaction works Research 4 min read By CATHERINE CARUSO April 28, 2026 At a glance The future of federally funded … Continue reading →

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Time: The Neuroscience of the Self

Posted on April 15, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The Neuroscience of the Self ADD TIME ON GOOGLE by Masud Husain Masud Husain is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Oxford and the author of “Our Brains, Our Selves.” Apr 15, 2026 4:56 PM IST What makes up our … Continue reading →

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The brain’s ability to grasp the “gist” of a visual scene begins earlier than expected

Posted on March 26, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

News Release 25-Mar-2026 The brain’s ability to grasp the “gist” of a visual scene begins earlier than expected Researchers show that primary visual cortex encodes motion summaries and variability before higher brain regions transform them into category signals Peer-Reviewed Publication Institute … Continue reading →

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EL PAIS: Gilles Lipovetsky: ‘If you want to live better and fall in love, take Prozac, don’t look to philosophy’

Posted on January 6, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

PHILOSOPHY Gilles Lipovetsky: ‘If you want to live better and fall in love, take Prozac, don’t look to philosophy’ The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and insists that … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Storytelling and the Brain … how memories are formed. Comment: Fascinated by this because TBI with amnesia means no stories and aphantasia is about no visuals. I watch Podcast grasp it deeply in the moment but then like a sheet of rain on a window pane, it is gone forever more except if there is a predictive prompt, then there might be some recognition.

Posted on October 23, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

How Storytelling Style Shapes the Way the Brain Forms Memories Featured Neuroscience ·October 20, 2025 Summary: The way an event is described—through feelings or sensory detail—changes how the brain stores and recalls it. In this study, participants listened to stories that … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Finding direction. Comment: as a person with TBI spatial sense of direction was severely impacted … and 30 years on, I can only move in areas which I frequented TBI, but now even this is fading away

Posted on September 12, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

How the Brain Uses Objects to Find Direction FeaturedNeuroscience ·September 11, 2025 Summary: Scientists discovered how the brain uses objects to anchor our sense of direction, solving part of the mystery of spatial navigation. Experiments in mice showed that cells in … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience.com Brain’s Memory and Rhythm

Posted on August 12, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Brain’s Memory Rhythm: How Neurons Sync to Store and Recall FeaturedNeuroscience ·August 11, 2025 Summary: Researchers studying people with epilepsy have discovered that nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe coordinate their firing with slow brain waves to encode and retrieve … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: How memories are structured. Comment: as a person who sustained a TBI with amnesia, this quote gives hope ““To date, when faced with an amnesic problem, we thought of attention deficits or difficulties in acquiring information. Our results suggest that there could also be a failure in these segmentation signals, in how information is structured in the brain”, they note.”

Posted on July 21, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

The Brain’s Ripple Effect: How Memories Are Structured FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 20, 2025 Summary: Researchers have identified ripple-type brain waves as key to how humans segment and store memories. By recording brain activity in epilepsy patients watching a TV episode, they found … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Brain … how it replays and compresses memories

Posted on July 10, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

How the Brain Replays and Compresses Memories FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 10, 2025 Summary: New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length neural sequences. Scientists recorded hundreds of hippocampal neurons in freely flying bats … Continue reading →

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