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What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human?

What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human? | Science News | Scoop.it

It's my belief that only experiencing and understanding truly disembodied cognition, only seeing the coldness and deadness and disconnectedness of something that truly does deal in pure abstraction, divorced from sensory reality, only this can snap us out of it. Only this can bring us, quite literally, back to our senses.

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Machines Learning to Read Our Minds | IdeaFeed | Big Think

Machines Learning to Read Our Minds | IdeaFeed | Big Think | Science News | Scoop.it

Scientists are teaching machines to decode our brain chemistry to better understand what a person is thinking from the outside. UCLA researchers presented cigarette smokers (nicotine addicts) with three visual stimuli: a video mean to induce a nicotine craving, a neutral video and no video at all. While the smokers watched, researchers measured brain function. With the help of machine learning, researchers were able to tell whether people were resisting their cravings while watching the video or indulging them.

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