Posts tagged: Neuroscience

How Stress Ruins Everything And What You Can Do About It

It seldom happens when we go through a day without experiencing stress. We are especially familiar with these feelings when they build up after a long day at work or while studying for a difficult final exam. In our modern industrialized world, it is more difficult now than ever to avoid stress, and some experts say this is leading to many unforeseen health-related problems.

Monday November 9th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments »

Deepak Chopra: A New Self

Deepak Chopra delivers an excellent lecture, elegantly touching on topics like theoretical physics, neuroscience, and Buddhist meditation. He goes on to explain how these have all contributed to a new science of consciousness.

Monday November 2nd, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

The Origin Of The Brain

“The human brain contains over 100 billion neurons, and roughly 1 quintillion synapses. But how did it all get started? How did the first nervous systems, the first brains evolve? How did a bunch of simple cells evolve into a biological computer?”

Saturday October 31st, 2009 in , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Marvin Minsky On the Present And Future State Of Humanity

“Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.”

Saturday October 31st, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Dr. Ramachandran Discusses Consciousness, Qualia, and Self.

Dr. V.S. Ramachandran is a well-known neurologist. He is currently the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, as well as a professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Wednesday October 28th, 2009 in , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »