Pinpointing where motivation resides in the brain is not easy, but a research team in China may have done just that. The group isolated a small group of neurons in the brains of mice that play a critical role in persistent...
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3quarksdaily - 5 new articles Deus ex machine: Social networks can’t replace religion
Melanie McDonagh in The Spectator:
     Researchers identify neurons important for the drive to win in mice
Leslie Nemo in Scientific American:
Friday PoemWitness An Appreciation of Night of the Living Dead
For some students in the class, Night of the Living Dead opened the door to an angle they had not considered before: that a film could be political without being “political.” More to the point: the most ideological films are the ones where ideology remains,... A Test for Consciousness?
Will we ever really know what, or even where, consciousness is? Is there any way to get at it scientifically, conclusively? Week by week we hear claims from neuroscientists that would appear to confirm the prevailing “internalist” view of... More Recent Articles
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