Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Gold Medal

Gold
Hope
Prov. 18:2
"A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself."

The weather project: Tate Modern




Salon d'Ete, Hotel Ritz Paris

For the past twelve years my research team has been using all the brain research tools at its disposal, from functional MRI to electro- and magneto-encephalography and even electrodes inserted deep in the human brain, to shed light on the brain mechanisms of consciousness.

I am now happy to report that we have acquired a good working hypothesis. In experiment after experiment, we have seen the same signatures of consciousness: physiological markers that all, simultaneously, show a massive change when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information (say a word, a digit or a sound).

Chess: "Hope" "Gold" "Gold Medal"

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