Neuroscience
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@hyp
For neuroscience: the horror of killing is perhaps more damaging than the fear of being killed.
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@albiverse
just tried 20g of creatine after a night a little sleep and think it might actually help
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@hyp
The whole idea of a homunculus irritates me.
No thereās not some little man inside the brain, but of course there are subroutines with particular jobs!
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@hyp
Self interest (ego) and empathy turn out to be two sides of same coin.
We learn from otherās painā¦ but caring is an add-on.
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@hyp
How does this brain thingy work? About as good of an explanation as I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAYuygr7_8
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@hyp
Ever wonder how the brain learns patterns and figures out location and navigation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dykkubb-Qus
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@samanthaeharvey
Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
"Such a system works well most of the time because imagined signals are typically weak. But if an imagined signal is strong enough to cross the threshold, the brain takes it for reality."
ā Yasemin Saplakoglu
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference-20230524/
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@hyp
Looks intriguing. Been thinking this for a while. Brain is so complex that to learn about brain effects we must go directly.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
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