A favorite theme of science fiction (the entire The Matrix franchise is based on it) as well as discussions among “philosophers of mind”: what would happen if a brain could …
Αway from bad thoughts!
While some researchers are looking for what will, after all, eventually allow techno-science to help those taking exams to “remember all the material” (p. 56), others want to provide social …
Electric memories
A group of researchers from the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine announced that they experimentally confirmed the positive contribution of electrode implantation in the …
Dopamine
The “scientific” approach analyzes it as follows: Thanks to neuroscience, we are beginning to understand that achieving a goal or receiving a reward because one has completed a task can …
Νευρόσκονη
In early August last year, a team of researchers from the University of Berkeley, led by neuroscientist Jose Carmera and computer engineer Michel Maharbiz, published in the specialized journal Neyron …
social neuroscience: pills for socially sensitive at opportunity cost
the brain: the new big trick The engagement, to an obsessive degree, with the human (and not only) genome within technoscientific laboratories around the world is rather well known. And …
Think.
«The program’s goal is to develop a brain-inspired bio-chip that will mimic the function, size, power and energy consumption of a biological cerebral cortex. If successful, the program will lay …
Remember, or not
Why does the way we remember (like all living beings, after all) draw so much attention from scientists? If you ask them and they bother to answer, you’ll get a …
At a glance
Would it ever cross your mind that something as commonplace as “I’m looking for my keys—where the hell did I leave them?” could become the subject of “scientific research”? No. …
liquid circuit
It is highly unlikely that you can understand what the image shows, and it is even more unlikely that you would think something like this could be possible. The photo …
memory reload
The widespread use of smartphones and personal computers is rapidly weakening our species’ “natural” memory, various researchers claim, and they present this as something “bad.” Is it? In the process …
Are consciousness and memory technoscientific “objects”?
The question in the title now seems foolish or pointless. Of course what has historically been called “consciousness” is a techno-scientific object of analysis and research! For decades now. Even …