"What this research suggests, however, is that we need to make time to escape from everyone else, to explore those parts of the world that weren't designed for us. It's when we are lost in the wild that the mind is finally at home."

"As computers have mastered rarefied domains once thought to be uniquely human, they simultaneously have failed to master the ground-floor basics of the human experience—spatial orientation, object recognition, natural language, adaptive goal-setting—and in so doing, have shown us how impressive, computationally and otherwise, such minute-to-minute fundamentals truly are." from The Atlantic.

"The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism. However, in nasal clicks the nasalization involves a separate nasal airstream, generally pulmonic egressive but occasionally pulmonic ingressive. Similarly, voiced clicks also require a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream to power the voiced phonation." from Wikipedia.

"'Octopuses,' writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, 'are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.' And that, he feels, is what makes the study of the octopus mind so philosophically interesting." from Orion Magazine.

David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain. "Time is a dimension like any other, fixed and defined down to its tiniest increments: millennia to microseconds, aeons to quartz oscillations. Yet the data rarely matches our reality." from The New Yorker.

"This is what is becoming in the world: the acceptance, only, of lived experience. I did not hear it if it did not scrobble, I did not see it if it’s not on Flickr, I did not say it if it is unpublished. Without Foursquare, I am not even there."

"What is really lost when this happens is the self-invention of a human brain. If students don’t learn to think, then no amount of access to information will do them any good." from NYT.

When Rodrigo Quian Quiroga visited Jorge Luis Borges's private library, he found annotated books that bear witness to the writer's fascination for memory and neuroscience. from Nature.

"...embodied cognition, the idea that the brain is not the only part of us with a mind of its own." from nyt.

Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker.

disorientation begets creative thinking. from nyt.

It might seem precarious to have a brain that plunges randomly into periods of instability, but the disorder is actually essential to the brain's ability to transmit information and solve problems.

The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. It builds on a deep commitment to the power and value of both of these ways of advancing knowledge and their potential to alleviate suffering.

new experiments in developmental psychology. from seed.

the science of concentration. from nyt.

calorie restriction and mental decline.

the design and the elastic mind symposium.

habits in the context of creativity and innovation. from nyt.

can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

parceling the brain into cognitive and affective regions is inherently problematic.

V.S. Ramachandran talks neuroscience.