Neuroscience

Literary Minds

关于小说、诗歌和戏剧,神经科学能告诉我们什么?小说能帮助我们发展现实世界中的认知技能吗?作家们能为了我们自己的利益利用我们精神上的弱点吗?这是我们在本周的节目“你的文学大脑”中要问的一些问题。

Hacking Our Sense Perceptions

Are humans limited to the senses we’re born with? Or is it possible to hack the brain and create new senses? Even if we could, would we want more senses than we already have? This week we’re thinking about hacking the brain: perception beyond the five senses.

Subway Spreading and Personal Space (Part II)

上个月,我提供了一个(男人)在地铁上传播的故事。这是一个关于两个人在拥挤的火车上对个人空间有着不同“偏好”的简单故事。但它让我们重新认识到,即使是日常的手势也会引发结构性和系统性的不平等。

How does Consciousness Happen?

How exactly does consciousness occur? Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that it is a controlled hallucination. Having less to do with intelligence than we often think, consciousness depends on how the brain predicts its world to operate.

Dennett vs. Papineau on Consciousness

大卫·帕皮诺(David Papineau)和丹·丹尼特(Dan Dennett)都是著名的唯物主义者(唯物主义认为,意识可以用物质和神经元功能来完全解释),那么为什么帕皮诺要对丹尼特的书《从细菌到巴赫和Back》(From Bacteria to Bach and Back)进行评论呢?