some interesting videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk
a very interesting talk on hallucinations
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html
Charles Pegge
23-07-2011, 06:12
How brains make moral judgements. Rebecca Saxe.
I found this one fascinating as well. It is amazing how these highly specialised skills occupy very specific regions of the cortex.
http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments.html
danbaron
23-07-2011, 06:31
I never knew that Oliver Sacks was crazy, too (just kidding).
A long time ago, I think he wrote a book titled, "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" - and he was serious. I used to think about that and laugh. I thought, maybe my problems are not as bad as I thought.
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Concerning Rebecca Saxe, maybe next she'll investigate what effect actually drinking the poison has on the victim's future moral judgments. I bet her conclusions will be, as profound. (I guess I wonder how much of her perceived, "brilliance", is due to her physical appearance. And, if you notice, usually whatever is publicly stated as fact (for instance, that a particular person is brilliant), most people automatically accept as being true. I think one of the big secrets in science is that, probably the only benefit of maybe 95% of scientific research, is for the salaries, careers, and reputations of the researchers who are doing it. And let me know when any of the researchers doing that 95%, proclaim that the scientific value of their work, is not more than trivial.)
I finally had a chance to watch both videos and enjoyed both.
My favorite part of R. Saxes' video was her answer to the very last question, that got a nice chuckle out of me.
The animation work with the John Lennon video was very nice. They did a very nice job.