November 2011
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“Brain-imaging research on violence troubles us by challenging the way we think...”
– Dr. Adrian Raine, who did the first neuroimaging study of killers in 1999. A then and now look: Johanna Goldberg for the Dana Foundation Blog :
If biology is to blame for behavior, how should we punish criminal acts? Where do personal responsibility and morality fit into the equation? And if...
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"The U.S. military has spent more than $42 million... →
When the Pentagon’s medical advisers say “the National Hockey League, whose players are constantly hitting the glass — and each other — has a better test to help spot brain injuries than does the U.S. military” how great is that?
…offering soldiers the appearance of help, but not the reality.
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New interview with my ex-KGB source about...
Stay tuned for one last installment on interrogations focusing on torture. If you want to catch up on my series, here’s Part I and Part II.
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“Is it not telling, for example, that the party that tells us that America is...”
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— Andrew Sullivan via aatombomb: Simply the BEST
I’ll be posting the third installment of the ex KGB interview shortly, where we continue with interrogation, begin with torture and start the BRAINWASHING…as ya do.
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Think about it. "Inducing Disbelief in Free Will... →
From the Neuroethics and Law blog:
Abstract
The feeling of being in control of one’s own actions is a strong subjective experience. However, discoveries in psychology and neuroscience challenge the validity of this experience and suggest that free will is just an illusion. This raises a question: What would happen if people started to disbelieve in free will? Previous research has shown that...
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“I tend to see psychopaths as someone suffering from a disorder, so I...”
– Dr. Kent Kiehl - Neuroscientist, University of New Mexico in Psychopaths: Born evil or with a diseased brain?
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NEUROWAR: Future Wars May Be Fought By Synapses. →
AKA: My side project may not be too far off after all, you guys.
In the not-too-distant future, technologies called brain-machine interfaces could allow the combination of human brains with sophisticated computer programs. Analysts with a brain chip could quickly sift through huge amounts of intelligence data, and fighter pilots merged with computer search algorithms could rapidly lock onto an...
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Awareness detected in people in vegetative state →
The highlights:
Scientists have used a portable device that tracks changes in brain waves to communicate with people in a vegetative state, some of whom have been locked in their bodies for more than a year.
The researchers instructed 16 people in a vegetative state to imagine they were making a fist with their right hand or wiggling their toes, and then measured brain activity while electrodes...
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“Something bizarre must be true about the mind, but which bizarre propositions...”
– Philosophy Professor, Eric Schwitzgebel in The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind, via vaughanbell h/t mocost
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Avoiding Irrational NeuroLaw Exuberance: A Plea... →
In a 2002 editorial published in The Economist, the following warning was given: “Genetics may yet threaten privacy, kill autonomy, make society homogeneous and gut the concept of human nature. But neuroscience could do all of these things first.” The genome was fully sequenced in 2001, and there has not been one resulting major advance in therapeutic medicine since. Thus, even in...
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