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 […]

As if you needed more reason to become a vegetarian.
For years, scientists believed that the parts of the human brain that supported complex thought and language had only recently evolved. The mental life of animals was treated as primitive and utterly distinct from ours. But an explosion in animal research is showing that many components […]

I experienced this whilst playing the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Jamais Cascio has a great article on Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley hypothesis* over at his blog Open the Future. Definitely a good read.
I can only describe the experience as unsettling. There’s not much more that I can […]

Jess is still winning the debate. In this collection of experts not one mentions anything about neuron regeneration or replication.
We are living in exciting times. Neuroscientists have finally debunked the old thinking that our brains simply decline after a certain age.
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