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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:34 pm    Post subject: The Brain is More Than Meets the Eye Reply with quote
2007-03-24 The Blind Brain: Part 1 of 2 29:58 3/23/2007 SUMMARY: A completely blind artist paints perfect replicas of the world he’s never seen. An Indian child born with cataracts miraculously gains full visual capacity at age 12. People born blind experience their ‘seeing’ mind in different wa


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
FREE WILL: Yes or No?

More on expectation and reality and the inherent determinism in our most very basic "decisions"(and trades):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/09/100914_doc_mysteries_brain.shtml

"Epiphenomenalism" has been around for a long time. That we are along for the ride begs the question, let's make it a good ride. That we "could have at any moment done something differently" is hardly livin' free. If not false, it's certainly trivial.
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Devil Moon:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/13/why-does-the-moon-look-so-huge-on-the-horizon/
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Indecision More on expectation and pattern-finding in our dopamine laced brains:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=122854276

The bear is always smarter than the bull--he "knows" things. Confused
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Tom, here's a baseball analogy to the yield curve. High-speed camera studies have shown a rising fastball does not rise, and indeed cannot rise. Then why does it look like it's rising in the batter's eye? Because your mind is expecting it to be falling more rapidly than it is, so it interprets the slower-than-expected decline as a "hop."

Your mind may have expected a more rapid flattening as opposed to the parallel shift you see on the screen. That is because the very short end of the yield curve will remain anchored by the Federal Reserve until further notice.

Just a thought. Or a wistful reference to baseball as the season's first snow (small) hit last night.

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