Inevitably the teacher’s response is an effort to move towards a connected social system. The response is about reaching synchrony of action and thought. This is similar to how the learning brain works, but the most significant difference is that teaching, unlike learning, cannot be carried out...
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So I turned 21 on Sunday. Feels good man.
Among other things I received a $50 gift certificate to a book store and I picked up “Zen and the Brain,” which is a book written by a neuroscientist-slash-Zen-practitioner. 800 pages of intense reading. 23 chapters outlining testable hypotheses.
Why is this one book so ambitious as to review both Zen and neuroscience? Because the two fields are so intimately interrelated that each illuminates the other.
So Zen is more than an agency of personal change. In this book, the topic of Zen will evolve to become an avenue for creating potential scientific change as well.
— James H. Austin, “Zen and the Brain” p. 4
The amazing thing about music is that it does not exist outside the brain. A single note begins as vibrations travel through the air which cause the eardrum to vibrate. Inside the ear the vibrations are converted into nerve impulses which travel to the brain where they are perceived as various elements of music such as pitch and melody. When recombined, these elements form a pattern which we recognize as music. In other words, the brain itself processes the sounds we think we hear into a perceptual whole we call music.
But what troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad. One of my favorite signs during the health care debate was somebody who said, ‘Keep Your Government Hands Out Of My Medicare’—which is essentially saying ‘Keep Government Out Of My Government-Run Health Care Plan.’ When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. We, the people—We, the people, hold in our hands the power to choose our leaders and change our laws, and shape our own destiny. Government is the police officers who are protecting our communities, and the servicemen and women who are defending us abroad. Government is the roads you drove in on and the speed limits that kept you safe. Government is what ensures that mines adhere to safety standards and that oil spills are cleaned up by the companies that caused them. Government is this extraordinary public university—a place that’s doing lifesaving research, and catalyzing economic growth, and graduating students who will change the world around them in ways big and small.
While we think of our body as a fixed feature of our lives, the brain displays a surprising ability to accept as part of ‘me’ whatever I happen to be touching and using at any given time.
Google buys artificial intelligence firm Deep Mind
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Google reportedly paid $500m (£302m) for the London-based firm, which specialises in machine learning and making computers work more like the human brain.