The American Mind

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Scientific American Mind

Scientific American Mind 05/01/2004 12:52 AM

India on North American mind

India on North American mind 01/04/2004 09:32 AM

Deja Vu in Scientific American Mind Deja
Vu in Scientific American Mind

Deja Vu in Scientific American Mind Deja
Vu in Scientific American Mind 04/01/2005 12:24 PM
David Pescovitz: Scientific American Mind has an in-depth article about déjà vu written by psychologist Ume Wolfradt of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany:

The term "déjà vu"--French for "seen already"--may have first been used in 1876 by French physician Émile Boirac. For much of the 20th century, psychiatrists espoused a Freudian-based explanation of déjà vu--that it is an attempt to recall suppressed memories. This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory. Therefore, a similar occurrence later could not elicit clear recall yet would somehow "remind" the ego of the original event, creating an uneasy familiarity...

A survey we conducted several years ago with more than 220 students at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany showed that after they had experienced déjà vu, 80 percent of the respondents were able to recall a past event that was indeed similar in nature--an event they had forgotten. In line with this study, cognitive psychologists have shifted their attention to another unconscious process, that which is responsible for so-called implicit, or nondeclarative, memories. These are artifacts that we have long forgotten and do not retrieve consciously, although they have not been erased from our neural networks. Consider seeing an old cupboard at a flea market, and suddenly it seems strangely familiar, as does the act of viewing it. What you may have forgotten--or, rather, cannot retrieve--is that when you were a young child, your grandparents had a cupboard just like this one in their home.

A related theory implies that we may perceive a person, place or event as familiar if at some earlier time in our lives we were exposed to just a partial aspect of the experience, even if it was within a different context. Perhaps, when you were young, your parents stopped at a flea market while on vacation and one vendor was selling old kitchen cupboards. Or perhaps you smell an odor that was also present at that flea market you attended as a child. A single element, only partially registered consciously, can trigger a feeling of familiarity by erroneously transferring itself to the present setting.

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"warned American bishops about
"soulless" American culture."

"warned American bishops about
"soulless" American culture." 05/29/2004 05:56 PM

What's American About American Poetry?

What's American About American Poetry? 12/14/2003 04:03 PM
What's American about American poetry?

It's all in the mind.

It's all in the mind. 03/22/2005 04:37 PM
Neuroeconomics: "Eventually it could help economists design incentives that gently guide people toward making decisions that are in their long-term best interests in everything from labor negotiations to diets to 401(k) plans." Note the ambiguous use of the pronoun "their"--are we talking about the long-term interests of people in general or of economists?

MIND 1.1

MIND 1.1 07/27/2004 08:11 PM
DICOM query/transfer tool

Why Would Anybody in Their Right Mind .
. .

Why Would Anybody in Their Right Mind .
. . 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
The Fair Employment licenses and the Creative Comment licenses face similar kinds of resistence. We often hear people say that no employer in its right mind would volunteer for legal liability. But this sounds a lot like people who say that noone in their right mind would ever throw away...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap 08/16/2004 10:23 AM
Gap is starting to look vulnerable as it gets set to post quarterly results.

Mind you, I bet it isn't

Mind you, I bet it isn't 06/17/2004 01:04 PM
Oh My Fucking God. Please let this be a joke....

Mind AI 0.1

Mind AI 0.1 04/18/2004 12:27 PM
An artificial mind based on some advanced concepts.

Get out of my mind!

Get out of my mind! 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Ok, so I first have to wake up around 6 for my lesson with Jen tomorrow morning I figure I'll...

Not What We Had in Mind

Not What We Had in Mind 07/09/2004 04:44 PM
Shark Tank: It's the 1990s, and this training director pilot fish orders a PC so his office can at long last be connected to the LAN -- but the computer and printer have to be ordered separately.

FC Now: Of A Whole New Mind

FC Now: Of A Whole New Mind 04/13/2005 05:15 PM
Yesterday afternoon, I took the train down to Philadelphia to join the local Company of Friends group at the Charter High School for Architecture and Design. Why go so far just to turn around to head home in several hours?...

As the guerrilla war against Iraqi
insurgents intensifies, American
soldiers have begun wrapping entire
villages in barbed wire. In selective
cases, American soldiers are demolishing
buildings thought to be used by Iraqi
attackers. They have begun impris

As the guerrilla war against Iraqi
insurgents intensifies, American
soldiers have begun wrapping entire
villages in barbed wire. In selective
cases, American soldiers are demolishing
buildings thought to be used by Iraqi
attackers. They have begun impris 12/09/2003 06:11 AM

nytimes.com/2003/12/07/international/middleeast/07TACT.html
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Mind Games

Mind Games 06/10/2004 01:22 PM
Four epilepsy patients at Washington University can now play videogames on brain power alone. Bioengineers at the university implanted the patients with an electrocorticographic (ECoG) "grid" that collects signals from the surface of the brain. While it's clearly more invasive than using EEG electrodes taped to the head, ECoG is also far easier to use. Eventually the technology could lead toward bionic prosthetics for disabled people. From Washington University's press release:

"(After surgery, the patients were asked) to do various motor and speech tasks, moving their hands various ways, talking, and imagining. The team could see from the data which parts of the brain correlate to these movements. They then asked the patients to play a simple, one-dimensional computer game involving moving a cursor up or down towards one of two targets. They were asked to imagine various movements or imagine saying the word 'move,' but not to actually perform them with their hands or speak any words by mouth. When they saw the cursor in the video game, they then controlled it with their brains.

'We closed the loop,' said (professor Daniel) Moran. 'After a brief training session, the patients could play the game by using signals that come off the surface of the brain. They achieved between 74 and 100 percent accuracy, with one patient hitting 33 out of 33 targets correctly in a row.'"

I'm sure the military would love to play too. Link

In The Canyons Of Your Mind

In The Canyons Of Your Mind 08/12/2004 04:36 AM
Life's like that isn’t it? Only the other day I was walking in the west end and... suddenly I was set upon by hordes of fans and admirers who wanted to... touch my clothes. So I took sanctuary in a nearby cinema. Normally of course I don't go in but... that day I saw something that... really moved me I'd like to share this...wonderful experience with you it was... (more inside gentle reader)

Mind over matter

Mind over matter 06/17/2004 06:34 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 17 2004 10:58AM GMT

Mind like Water

Mind like Water 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
In the future, we shall look to each other, and the few who know the codes will say the codes, and the codes shall be "GTD" and "David Allen", and lo we shall know each other, and it shall be...

The Flickering Mind

The Flickering Mind 05/12/2004 02:25 PM

"Whoops, never mind"

"Whoops, never mind" 05/22/2004 02:19 AM

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE 02/06/2003 10:45 AM
When size does matter: Google’s superiority is under threat, writes Chris Sherman’ it said in the Guardian. Phnaah, phnaah! ...

Mind if I fart?

Mind if I fart? 03/23/2005 10:53 PM
Physicians and scientists around the world even go as far as to state that smoking leads to premature death. Don’t we all know someone who smokes constantly, even heavily, yet is still living — or has lived — to the mature age of eighty, ninety, and older? Furthermore, the MDs and PhDs state that smoking causes cancer and emphysema. If this diagnosis were definitive, wouldn’t these afflictions affect all smokers equally, rather than the small percentage that it actually does affect?

"he doesn?t mind"

"he doesn?t mind" 07/04/2004 03:35 PM

Mapping the Mind

Mapping the Mind 04/12/2005 04:15 PM

A Machine With a Mind of Its Own

A Machine With a Mind of Its Own 07/29/2004 05:01 AM
Ross King wanted a research assistant who would work full time without sleep or food -- so he built one. By Oliver Morton from Wired magazine.

Making the Mind

Making the Mind 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
Making the Mind. "The general outlines of how genes build the brain are finally becoming clear, and we are also starting to see how, in forming the brain, genes make room for the environment’s essential role. While vast amounts of work remain to be done, it is becoming equally clear that understanding the coordination of nature and nurture will require letting go of some long-held beliefs."

RB minds the mind

RB minds the mind 01/18/2004 02:45 PM
RageBoy talks a quick trot through AI, cognitive psychology and philosophy, proving once again that autodidacts are the best educated people on the planet. Since RB ties me into the piece — I am not worthy, I am not worthy — let me answer the question he ends with: "I don't know quite how I got here from Fodor's funny take on Dasein." Here's how you got there, muh friend. In a few pithy — and NC-17 — paragraphs you raise the notion of Dasein, and then take us through the clumsy way AI has tried to reincorporate the baby...

Georgia out of its mind

Georgia out of its mind 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
In 1848, in Georgia, it was illegal to teach a black person to read. Two years ago it was illegal...

You're Playing with My Mind!

You're Playing with My Mind! 06/24/2004 05:00 AM
In Mindball, a new game powered by brain waves, calm is the ultimate weapon.

Mind Your Phraseology!

Mind Your Phraseology! 08/14/2002 03:13 AM

Mind Reading

Mind Reading 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
An American researcher taps collective consciousness by scanning Web searches.

The Mind of the Fundamentalist

The Mind of the Fundamentalist 04/29/2004 09:14 AM
The mind of the fundamentalist (streaming RealAudio) is an hour-long radio show featuring excerpts from talks given at a psychoanalytic psychotherapy conference in Sydney. Three speakers discuss experiences with fundamentalists, and driving factors behind their beliefs. It includes an amazing first-hand account of fundamentalist terrorism by a journalist whos plane was hijacked, and who later tracked down the hijacker and attempted to understand what drove him. The RealAudio-squeamish can find a tran script here.

Expand My Mind?

Expand My Mind? 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Free registration may be required to read the story. Dr. Ecstasy “Alexander Shulgin, Sasha to his friends, lives with his wife, Ann, 30 minutes inland from the San Francisco Bay on a hillside dotted with valley oak, Monterey pine and hallucinogenic cactus. At 79, he stoops a little, but he is still well over six feet tall, with a mane of white hair, a matching beard and a wardrobe that runs toward sandals, slacks and…

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The Mind Boggles

The Mind Boggles 03/19/2003 10:28 PM

I finished the residual style fixes today. All of the code that I wrote to fix up tag misnesting and to reopen tags across paragraphs works like a charm. I deliberately implemented this code to only execute when in quirks mode, so standards mode pages will not get fixed up implicitly if they use bad HTML.

Proud of myself, I then went through my bug list. All of the pages were fixed except for one. Perplexed, I cut out the relevant snippet and pasted it into a local Web page. It worked! I loaded the page online. Nope, didn't work. I brought it up in Mozilla and WinIE, and the page looked just fine.

Confused I downloaded the entire page to disk. Still didn't work in Safari, but it did work in Mozilla and WinIE! I kept reducing the page until finally I noticed that it had an XHTML doctype.

An invalid page, horribly invalid (two body tags, misnested font tags) , was using standards mode in Safari and Mozilla! Even more mind-boggling, Mozilla actually still applies residual style quirks in strict mode. I couldn't believe it!

Maybe I'm taking a hard-line stance here, but I view fixing up tag misnesting as a horrible quirk that should not be implemented in standards mode. If you don't behave strictly when in standards mode, how will people ever write valid HTML?

I hope that Mozilla's behavior is just a bug.

Hypnosis really changes your mind

Hypnosis really changes your mind 09/12/2004 03:26 AM

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The Hidden Mind

The Hidden Mind 04/12/2004 12:52 AM

The Mind Reels

The Mind Reels 08/29/2004 12:25 PM
What is the justice department trying to censor in the ACLU's case against the Patriot Act? Anything they feel like, apparantly, including quotes from The Supreme Court. [via boingboing]

Wonderland: Currently on my mind

Wonderland: Currently on my mind 08/28/2004 04:46 AM
Nutritional facts for games .. Currently on my mind

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