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Nov 10, 2018

Scientists Now Believe That The Universe Itself Is Conscious

Posted by in categories: cosmology, neuroscience

I think aspects of our Universe are conscious. Dark matter or the æther perhaps. Stagnancy is death so change inherently means something is making decisions.


A new scientific concept has recently come to light, which scientists are calling “panpsychism.” Panpsychism says that the universe could be capable of consciousness, which could change everything.

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Nov 10, 2018

World’s Largest Neuromorphic Supercomputer Activated

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, supercomputing

SpiNNaker was built under the leadership of Professor Steve Furber at The University of Manchester, a principal designer of two products that earned the Queen’s Award for Technology —the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, and the BBC Microcomputer.

“The ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real time brain modelling applications, and we have now achieved it, which is fantastic.” — Professor Steve Furber, The University of Manchester

Inspired by the human brain, the SpiNNaker is capable of sending billions of small amounts of information simultaneously. The SpiNNaker has a staggering 1 million processors that are able to perform over 200 million actions per second.

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Nov 10, 2018

Researchers Uncover A Circuit For Sadness In The Human Brain

Posted by in categories: health, neuroscience

Sadness Circuit Found In Human Brain : Shots — Health News When people are feeling glum, it often means that brain areas involved in emotion and memory are communicating. Researchers now have observed the circuit in action in humans.

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Nov 10, 2018

How History Forgot the Woman Who Defined Autism

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger.

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Nov 9, 2018

Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Preliminary finding turns heads at neuroscience meeting.

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Nov 9, 2018

Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement

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Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain.

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Nov 9, 2018

Samsung is building software to control your TV with your brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

You read that correctly. Brain-controlled TVs.


The technology is aimed for people with physical disabilities and should go into testing in Swiss hospitals early next year.

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Nov 8, 2018

Culture may explain why brains have become bigger

Posted by in categories: economics, neuroscience

A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the last few million years, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology by Michael Muthukrishna of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University, and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University.

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Nov 8, 2018

The most detailed map of the brain ever created!

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Nov 8, 2018

Coffee is so good for you that it might curb your risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, neuroscience

We as human have to live with a lot of unfortunate realities, including the fact that a lot of the things we love end up being bad for us. We all know by now that if we binge on tasty treats too much we’ll end up eating ourselves into an early grave, but in recent years it’s become increasingly clear that coffee, a well known vice of millions and millions of people, is actually pretty good for you.

Recent studies have shown that being a regular coffee drinker can reduce your risk of all kinds of ailments, including heart attack and stroke. Now, a new research effort reveals that dark roast coffee is particularly good at warding off some nasty brain conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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