June 2011
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Neuroscience and its Relationship to Anything →
psydoctor8:
“Social species create emergent organizations beyond the individual. These emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too reproduced. Social neuroscience seeks to specify the...
Take responsibility
I really do wish I had written this letter piece that appeared in Melbourne’s The Age on Friday 24 June. It is a very succinct piece that deserves contemplation not only for its directness about smoking but also for its questioning of responsibility in a democratic society. I have quoted the full text as The Age unfortunately does not load the letters section onto their digital presence:
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Where does the quantum become everyday? →
We all blithely use technologies that have only been developed because of our ability to manipulate the physics equations that make up ‘quantum mechanics’. Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles and quantum devices, such the transistors that pack semiconductor ‘chips’, behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to...
