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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