Posts Tagged ‘brain’

Art T-Eco

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

Rather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...

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The strange alchemy

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...

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Corrected routine

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

To err is human, to persevere is diabolical” as the old saying goes. And yet, if we’re to go by the discoveries of cognitive psychology over the last few decades, it seems that the devil’s hoof in the works is not to blame. The fact is, that humans just seem to have been generally designed wrong. The good news, though, is that it seems they...

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#21 Senti-mentally

#21 Senti-mentally -> Magazine

“Senti-mentally”: these two linguistic particles and their two meaning potentials normally make up one word. We’ve split it here, though, with a hyphen, as a sort of interlude. This sort of “in-betweenness” in a way conveys the meaning of this issue’s topic. On the one hand, there is the sentient part of the word, which admirably corres...

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