Brain
Sep 7, 2023
Brain in A Box? I Don’t Think So
Of all the really REALLY stupid ideas, they’ve been trying to create a human brain within a computer. They didn’t even ask the obvious question: is it even POSSIBLE to mimic the human brain in a computer? Heck, nothing has yet passed the famous Turing test (named after Alan Turing, the computer wizard in the […]
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Sep 9, 2022
WE ARE NOT A BRAIN
A little-known but celebrated scientific paper in SCIENCE was written 30 years ago by Roger Lewin, with the startling title: Is Your Brain Really Necessary?1 Lewin was writing about the work of British pediatrician, John Lorber (1915-1996). Lorber collected research data concerning several hundred people who functioned quite well with practically no brains at all. […]
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Jun 25, 2021
An Often-Forgotten But Important Brain Nutrient
Inositol, is a Cinderella nutrient but very important for brain health, because of its relationship to neurotransmitters (brain signaling molecules), especially serotonin (the “happy” molecule). More precisely known as myo-inositol, it is a vitamin-like substance (part of B complex) and is actually a carbon-ring sugar, that is abundant in brain and other mammalian tissues. Its […]
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