Declassified secret CIA docs tell analysts how to analyze intelligence …
Interesting.
This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. The information […]

Changizi claims the visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, allowing it to generate perceptions of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future, so that when an observer actually perceives something, it is the present rather than what happened one-tenth of a second ago. Using his hypothesis, called “perceiving-the-present,” he […]

B. Alan Wallace succinctly surmises the road ahead. I encourage you all to listen to the “Conscious Universe” lecture, particularly Part 6.
Physicists have long assumed that the universe is fundamentally composed of matter and energy and that life and consciousness are accidental byproducts of configurations of matter. But a growing number of distinguished physicists […]

The scientists have made a significant step into the understanding of conscious perception, by showing how single neurons in the human brain reacted to perceived and nonperceived images.
University of Leicester bioengineer Dr Rodrigo Quian Quiroga is spearheading this study which is opening new possibilities of exploring a hitherto relatively unchartered scientific area.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uol-sec021808.php

ContraWagner recently posted a series of videos featuring Dr. Christof Koch.

Dr. Christof Koch has been teaching at the California Institute of Technology since 1986. Prior to that he spent four years at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
His laboratory, K-Lab, focuses on experimental and computational research pertaining to the biophysics and neurophysiology of neurons, […]

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she … all » thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.
Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious […]

Beyond Belief is an annual meeting organized by The Science Network (TSN), which brings together a community of concerned scientists, philosophers, scholars from the humanities, and social commentators to explore the human quest for the Good Life. The Science Network shares Carl Sagan’s vision of science as a candle in the dark. TSN is committed […]