Agressive Salmon

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Our shared condition -- consciousness

Philosopher John Searle lays out the case for studying human consciousness -- and systematically shoots down some of the common objections to taking it seriously. As we learn more about the brain processes that cause awareness, accepting that consciousness is a biological phenomenon is an important first step. And no, he says, consciousness is not a massive computer simulation. (Filmed at <a href="http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/">TEDxCERN</a>.)

connections of my peeps

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And I understand. I understand why people hold hands: I’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying ‘This is mine’. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.

She was always holding my hand  (via euo)

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Sex

It's not the one night stands that Im having a problem with, it's the one night stands with the people I actually care about.

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Change

something interesting. A theory of how to make our lives more (fulfilled). tme as a perception measurement was created by man, and we are alive and aware of this perception for a finite amount of time. We measure time by change right; seasons, birthdays, location, etc. So in order to make the most of the short time of consciousness we should experience change as much as possible. This will create more episodic memories as well as keeping us out of the automatic monotony of daily life.

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Nature vs nurture cont

Our genetic biology and the environment are the main influences in shaping individuals. Id like to propose that while the environment is an important mold, our range of susceptibility to the environment is what makes people seemingly infinitely different. Maybe the environment itself plays a smaller role than we thought, seeing as childrrn raised in the same environment become drastically different people, based on how their biological programming makes them susceptible to external influences at a certain level.

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Our identity is nothing more than the behavior of individual neurons and the relations between them

Randal Koene

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Some thinks

The one thing that separates us from all other living things ever in existence and makes human beings such an extraordinary species is our conscious mind. This is also the Achilles heel of humanity in that it creates an almost impassable barrier between our lives as separate beings distracted by our own illusion of individuality, and the reality of being connected in innumerable ways to our own species and to those that we share an environment with. Consciousness is an amazing thing of self awareness and introspection, and it allows us to connect with "like-minded" people, who, by my own definition, are those who have a similar way of interpreting internal activation in response to various external stimuli. Consciousness also makes available connection through similar positive arousal, such as a shared sense of cultural pride or a mutual feeling of love. I believe that we become most weak under conscious experience of negative arousal. It is only the depressing effects of negative activation that can subdue us and leave us most vulnerable. The astounding effect that this has on us and our desire for the positive arousal is what leaves us prey to mass control by higher powers, be that God, the government, celebrity influence, the media, advertisers, etc. We are just a collective species that are weak under the distraction of our individualistic conscious experiences and we need to be aware that humanity as it is in the modern world is simply a byproduct of our own intelligence.

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Printing a human kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

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romance of cogsci

Going into university I always knew I wanted to do something with psychology. now my understanding of psychology was that I was going to get to figure people out, and I mean really figure them out at a basic cellular level. what are the connections in a person that makes them act and react how we do. As a species especially, we can generalize almost everything to a humanoidistic trait (made that term up cause it works), and people are pretty comparable to another. You can really break us down to an algorithm of the varieties of possible chemical combinations in our neural connections that make us individual human beings with different personalities and what have you, etc. The beauty in this part of cognitive science is that there are infinite possibilities of combinations that make us different from one another. there's no absolute way to define a person because there is nothing to compare it to. Can refer to Wittgensteins theories of private language.

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And then we'll get down there to the bottom of everything and then we'll see it!

I'm happy just because, I've found out I am really no-one 

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Dolphin dental. Why dolphins? Because dolphins rescue lost swimmers, and we rescue lost smiles. - Dolphin Dental #makessense

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classy classy classy dip

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saved

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for a good cry. 

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working memory? knowledge?

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Even if we believe there's nothing to believe..... but i'm curious, how do you know what you know? where did you get your beliefs? what is it, in the moment. we could know the truth of everything. what does the consciousness know? for just one moment, and get it all out. if we could just know for one moment what our consciousness is, was, and where it came from, and just get it all out.