Yep, men of ambition and men of reason seldom undersand each other.
WTF are they thinking??? "Woohoo, we blew our whole $43m on the WRONG PRODUCT and made a WHOLE $20m from it!!! Oh, yeah, actually it's just a PMITA loan of sorts, but one day this might make us RICH!!!!111eleventy-one11! Oh, what, dying kids? ORLY?? Yeah, whatever."
Yeah right, we didn't know the VENTROMEDIAL PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX could have something to do with the subtleties of how we perceive social interactions.
I mean really, good work re-confirming results, but this is news?????
Of course, given the sterling track record and sound scientific knowledge that most journalists posess, it is likely that the article is a comprehensive and accurate summary we can draw such a conclusion from.... NOT!
Yep, you got me - "mapping the mind", Carter 1998, p89 - I was thinking of the Putamen (but thinking with WHAT I now wonder...:D )
I see what you mean about the Thalmus and sensory input - I am going off biological Psychology, Rosenwieg 4th ed, pp 225,231, the Thalumus is in the pathway between sensory nerves and the primary somatosensory cortex - right after the Medulla - but I am confused how this makes the Thalmus more significant than the brain stem or the somatosensory cortex in this pathway.
For me, I ponder as to whether emotion, or "Affect" is not clearly part of conciousness - can we be concious but not know what we feel? It is pretty clear that Affect is localised to the Amigdalae, and that these play a large part in emotional memory - or is that not what you call concious?
Cheating, and flipping ahead in my book to the chapter on conciousness, I find Carter p298:
Orbio-frontal Cortex: this area inhibits inappropriate actions, freeing us from the tyranny of our urges and allowing u to defer immediate reward in favor of long term advantage
Dorsolateral prefrontal corted: Things are held "in mind" here, and manipulated to form plans and concepts. This area also seems to choose to do one thing rather than another
Ventromedial Cortex: this is where emotions are experienced and meaning bestowed on our perceptions
Anterior cingulate cortex: helps focus attention and "tune in " to our own thoughts
This seems to me to be important stuff to "copy" if we want to preserve sentience beyond the life time of the body (...and THAT is a can of worms if you ask any religious person about whether it happens anyway!!!)
Uh, wouldn't that be, "the thalmus that is the seat of repetitive learned behaviour like riding a bicycle, and is, like the rest of the sub-cortical limbic system, SUBCONCIOUS???"
Given that left and right orbio-frontal coricies seem to have so much to do with reasoning, and regions of the parietal cortex seem closely related to various mechanisms of attention, would this not be a more likely canditate region for conciousness?
In any case - think of a computer - where does this post "exist" - on the/. hard disk?/. RAM? The network? Your Browser cache? RAM on your Machine? Your graphics card's frame buffer? your monitor?
Well I guess this explains it - somewhere there is a tank with 3 kidnapped american kids who had a nightmare about weapons of mass destruction....
Now if only GWB would let us get our hands on the "minority report" for that one (checks nervously over shoulder).....
Nah, Mutation is a "random walk" and politicians are just evidence of that.
The problem is you would have to be mad to want to be in government. Hence most of them are.....
I would give that +6 insightfull if I had mod points, only, rather than the theories you propose, I would cut to the chase and insist that equal time be given to ALL widely-held creation myths - If bible science is to be taught, then equal time must be given to Hindu Vedic science (yes, it does exist!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_science, and that the Koran's version of the story of Adam be taught along side the King James Bible one. Heck, I am sure the Scientologists would gladly step up and lobby to teach their cruft in highschools.
*That* might put an end to the nonsense.....
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I just checked on Snopes.com, it says this rumor is false and that the spyware in question comes from another source.
The descendants of the original bridge builders still do this each year at one of the original sites, using techniques handed down by previous generations. Photos here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_rope_bridge#Renewing_the_last_bridge
This site is supposed to be about news and technical scoops not about personal opinion or flame wars
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Yep, men of ambition and men of reason seldom undersand each other.
WTF are they thinking??? "Woohoo, we blew our whole $43m on the WRONG PRODUCT and made a WHOLE $20m from it!!! Oh, yeah, actually it's just a PMITA loan of sorts, but one day this might make us RICH!!!!111eleventy-one11! Oh, what, dying kids? ORLY?? Yeah, whatever."
I'm speechless.
Based on the price for a 6pack/case, Crown Lager seems to be considered a "premium" drop. It's quite nice, try it if you get the chance.
Sure we do - its a small flat disk of synthetic meat-substitute :)
Dating?!? ...I'm a Slashdot reader, you insensitive clod!
(with appologies to Crocodile Dundee...)
That's not an Open-Source car!
. .
THIS is an Open-Source Car:
http://65.254.46.136/oscars/
Hey heeeey... is it just me, or does anyone else smell a candidate for the next /. meme?
That was *truly* inspired!
You must be new here.... :)
In Korea, only old people use robot suits...
Yeah right, we didn't know the VENTROMEDIAL PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX could have something to do with the subtleties of how we perceive social interactions. I mean really, good work re-confirming results, but this is news????? Of course, given the sterling track record and sound scientific knowledge that most journalists posess, it is likely that the article is a comprehensive and accurate summary we can draw such a conclusion from.... NOT!
"Give the afflicted one well-grilled, fresh-killed, monkey brain" (sorry!)
...but can I teach a Shark to do that? What about a sea-bass?
I see what you mean about the Thalmus and sensory input - I am going off biological Psychology, Rosenwieg 4th ed, pp 225,231, the Thalumus is in the pathway between sensory nerves and the primary somatosensory cortex - right after the Medulla - but I am confused how this makes the Thalmus more significant than the brain stem or the somatosensory cortex in this pathway.
For me, I ponder as to whether emotion, or "Affect" is not clearly part of conciousness - can we be concious but not know what we feel? It is pretty clear that Affect is localised to the Amigdalae, and that these play a large part in emotional memory - or is that not what you call concious?
Cheating, and flipping ahead in my book to the chapter on conciousness, I find Carter p298:
This seems to me to be important stuff to "copy" if we want to preserve sentience beyond the life time of the body (...and THAT is a can of worms if you ask any religious person about whether it happens anyway!!!)
Your turn :)
Uh, wouldn't that be, "the thalmus that is the seat of repetitive learned behaviour like riding a bicycle, and is, like the rest of the sub-cortical limbic system, SUBCONCIOUS???"
/. hard disk? /. RAM? The network? Your Browser cache? RAM on your Machine? Your graphics card's frame buffer? your monitor?
Given that left and right orbio-frontal coricies seem to have so much to do with reasoning, and regions of the parietal cortex seem closely related to various mechanisms of attention, would this not be a more likely canditate region for conciousness?
In any case - think of a computer - where does this post "exist" - on the
How about all of the above?
No one really worries that much about Nuclear technology in space. If it were NUCULAR on the other hand...... then there would be cause for concern!
"Macrotube"????
Well I guess this explains it - somewhere there is a tank with 3 kidnapped american kids who had a nightmare about weapons of mass destruction.... Now if only GWB would let us get our hands on the "minority report" for that one (checks nervously over shoulder).....
Nah, Mutation is a "random walk" and politicians are just evidence of that. The problem is you would have to be mad to want to be in government. Hence most of them are.....
Too right. Time to write to your congress-critter I expect ;)
I would give that +6 insightfull if I had mod points, only, rather than the theories you propose, I would cut to the chase and insist that equal time be given to ALL widely-held creation myths - If bible science is to be taught, then equal time must be given to Hindu Vedic science (yes, it does exist!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_science, and that the Koran's version of the story of Adam be taught along side the King James Bible one. Heck, I am sure the Scientologists would gladly step up and lobby to teach their cruft in highschools. *That* might put an end to the nonsense.....
How does this demonstrate evolution? Don't they know the eggs were planted there just to fool them???
But can we teach it to spot dupes and use it on slashdot? (and does it have a "Rolland" filter?)