Sex, Drugs, and Firing Neurons: This Is Your Brain on Cognition

[spacecowboy95]

This woman is so full of hot air it's not funny. I'm glad she got fired from her positions at the RI and I'm glad she's being attacked by proper scientists for at the stupid, unfounded claims she makes.

[VinkoRajic]

I can use telepathy, I can exchange voice, video, smell, people can move small move muscles on my body from distance and more.

What I find most fascinating my telepathy is nearly identical what Schizophrenics experience.

My telepathy manifest itself exact like "Schneider's first-rank symptoms".

[samg169]

HairLikeCottonCandy - She is talking about the two activities being similar in terms of them being sensory experiences rather than cognitive, why don't you sell your anti-drugs message to someone who is interested. And DrMontague, women weren't just put on this earth as penis recipients, we do have other skills and abilities.

[HairLikeCottonCandy]

How in the world is white water rafting equivalent to taking drugs? An experience like that would be very mentall stimulating, memorable and engaging!  Clearly she isn't a physical fitness enthusiast.

[DrMontague]

I bet Susan Green Greenfield is a bundle of fun in bed. Feel sorry for her hubby. Hurry up and finish shagging darling I've got a lecture to prepare!

[DrMontague]

No them folk still have a sense of control. They do not rurn into rapists, or murderers. They still have a sense of reality otherwise they wouldn't get home.

[DrMontague]

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

[DrMontague]

From the author shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House.

[thoth27]

this was rather underwhelming

it is as superficial as something youd hear on the news, or read in the paper while taking a shit.

[ParArdua]

She is such an excellent communicator.

She's able to get some complex concepts across to a lay public who are hungry for science, and angry at the power of hysterical and greedy organisations such as the Amerikan Enterprise Institute and Exxon Mobil who've hijacked Climate Change, alternative fuels and progressive politics.

[ekydami]

Greenfield is such an impressive communicator.

At a time when the media attack science and knowledge, Greenfield is there, fiercely independent and fearless, getting across her great insights to ordinary folk such as myself. Her lecture at the National Press Club was like watching a fine tennis player hitting endless awesome returns, and with humility.

[1DennisK]

@Ontologistics: Yes, like so many of those Oxford professors and researchers, recipients of honorary knighthoods, and members of the House of Lords, she's quite primitive isn't she. BTW, what have you done lately?

[cipanlaknat]

HEAR HEAR!

[trikninja]

She's done little to no research whatsoever in her claims toward the effects of social networking on the minds of youth, nor has she even picked a place in the House of Lords, she's a crossbencher, jumping from wagon to wagon, flouting her useless and unrecognised title while disguising her own outdated opinions as researched fact. It was because of her behavior that she was made redundant as director from theroyal institution.

[Ontologistics]

This stuff was known decades ago.

The important question is how the brain gives rise to consciousness - the 'explanatory gap'.

Moreover, certain psychedelic drugs actually increase consciousness, rather than decrease it.

This woman is primitive and I hope, for her sake, the audience is from a primary school.

[ncfwhitetigress]

The part about drugs was so hilarious and true.

[ianhoppe]

All of this made sense to me until the "blowing your mind" portion.

It seems that even in an "extreme" environment, full of loud music and bright lights; one could still experience cognitive thoughts and attachments. The bar owner, for instance, or dancing with your friends in a club.

All of this doesn't seem consistent

[technosnob303]

perhaps, but at the peak of drug us in that type of environment that it really is just pure sensation, you even loose internal dialogue to a large degree.

[eartslasthoperevived]

that blowing their mind can be looked at in many ways . Mate seeking behavior, Social acceptance etc etc. There's a reason why we stretch from time to time(to get the blood flowing) .

[h2rski]

Maybe studying Zen would help understanding why people want to let go. No troubles, no worries, just this moment.

What bother me is the comment she makes that certain people are no longer self-concience. I've seen lots of "cognitive" people being less self-concience than the people who "let themselves go". It's the balance of the two could be worth of consideration.

[WesternBlot]

This woman's presentation is a disgrace. She created a misleading title, hypocritically pointed out the misuse of genes in behavioral studies and then proceeded to point the finger at videogames for the increase of a host of neurological disorders. This would be forgivable if she wasn't supposed to be a respected neuroscientist. The field deserved better than this presentation.

[chunkybutt420]

Suzy is an artist - she paints quite a lot.

An artist she may be, but a genius she is not.

She says she wants to be a sociologist,

But she better first get checked by a neurologist.

Woman walks the streets like she's queen of the town.

Doesn't talk very much, she's very profound!

Little Suzy Greenfield always playing a game.

Since the day we first met, she's probably forgot my name!

[zayadnay]

well i wouldn't be so quick to judge these people doing their thing with the techno crap lol ... i personally don't like it, but for some of them getting drunk high or what ever maybe they just want to escape the harsh reality they're in.. maybe they are not as privileged as this scientist speaking or the intellectuals listening(some of them do techno every week i bet) ... so i do wish that one day everyone would have equal everything so can judge them fairly lol

[magua73]

It ain't fair, the clip is to short and I so wanted more..grrr!

[frankroto]

Cick on the "more info" link and you'll see the link to the complete video.

[magua73]

Upss. silly me! Right in front on the "more info"... I guess I was "blowing my mind" :)

Thanks!

[realisoph]

then open your eyes

[magua73]

realisoh wrote:

"then open your eyes"

Yeah I know! But the sad part is that I just subscribed to ForaTv, even though I was getting irritated as I couldn't understand for the life of me why they were cutting the videos so short.

Talking about been short sighted, now that's pathetic.

[realisoph]

;o)

I hope you'll get to see plenty more stuff that gets the brain going. Have a nice day.

[freakOFtheNature]

interesting

[CoffeyBreaks]

Indeed.