Neuroscience Research at Salk Institute, San Diego

[VideoGameCoupons]

thanks for the video

[LloydChristoph]

a youtube video does not give the correct framerate for viewing that experiement. thats probably why it doesnt work for some.

[stepagain]

thats crap! that man is just wasting our taxes

[TheDarkSagan]

@stepagain There has been many test along the lines of this, done before you were even born. The Salk institute is a private, non profit organization who receives its funding from, private foundations (Sloan), and grants. If you feel that a large portion of your taxes are being sent to the Salk institute alone, then you might want to research that. If you want to attack people for wasting your taxes, then you should go attack government funded Pseudo-scientific practices, such as homeopathy.

[googoo120]

@stepagain YEAH! he should be out there killign brown people instead!

[nspeert]

But if there's no region in the brain where the neural signals all come together, then there would be no where in the brain that would benefit from neural signals being bound together temporally. (cont.)...

[nspeert]

...(cont.) it seems to stand to reason that the brain would represent time temporally, but the very nature of a representation is a medium in which the value of representation differs from the value being represented. For example, motion in the world isn't represented by way of motion in the brain, so similarly there's no reason to suspect that time in the world is represented by time in the brain.

[Chapa7ld]

I saw the flash right in the middle tho.

[paradiddle1]

I wonder what he means by "long since passed" wouldn't that mean that the flash would appear "way behind" the black circle rather than "just outside" it? hhmmm

[requiemdexter]

I suspect he meant it as a relative term.

[Isamright33]

Look, you take a human brain from a clone, and you plug it into a cpu, and bam you got creative intelligence.

[jackmosley06]

i discovered this. fuck these guys.

[chinatown2000]

I have Dr. Eagleman as a professor at Rice University, and he is the best!

[hairhorn]

oh no ... "matrix" graphics....

[tiberianfallout]

I know the secret to the brain and the universe.

[panickingjuggler]

*gets wallet out*

[sextronica]

Me too! I have research to go with it though, hope you do too.

[TheRealBladeRunner]

"I know the secret to the brain and the universe. " -- tiberianfallout.

Wait, I know: "God did it."

[luvyouOonot]

i dont think so

[pomnau]

i got interested in neuroscience when i found out my niece got CP, facinatine stuff, how a brain can control behaviour and muscle and thought level.

i guess the famous philosopher decarte was right, "i think...therefore i am"

[aftaab007]

this is very informing. and i wondered about the same thing about he brain. how the brain stiches sound and sight to gether. its a very interesting matter.

[just7me7emelia]

my brain ran outta tokens a long time ago.

[doncarmenschimizzi5]

It seems you haven't yet scratched the surface. We think of the brain as SOLID matter, but where does "mind" and "consciousness" fit into all of this? Certainly not inside a machine.

[msharrock]

Easy there big guy, first things first... this lab is looking at computational effects, and they are useful for understanding the brain. Where mind and consciousness fit are still in the realm of philosophy. Although, we can make speculations. Just remember, the computational approach is the most effective we have, but nobody says it tells us everything yet. That may come in time....who knows.