Brain Rotman

“Alphabetic writing, like all technological systems and apparatuses, operates according to what might be called a corporeal axiomatic: it engages directly and inescapably with the bodies of its users. It makes demands and has corporeal effects. … The alphabet does this by imposing it own mediological needs on the body, from the evident perceptual and cognitive skills required to read and write to the invisible, neurological transformations which it induces in order to function. ”



alphabet, brain, writing

Glioma


“A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it arises from glial cells. The most common site of gliomas is the brain.”


Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement.



astrocytes, brain, glia

NeuroGLIA

neuroglia

“…the brain should no longer be regarded solely as a neuronal network, but instead as a circuit of interactive neuron and glial cell networks.”



brain, glia, neuroscience

The Dark Matter of the Human Brain

“… radial glia, serve as a scaffolding in the embryonic brain. Neurons climb along these polelike cells to reach their final location. Another kind of glia, called microglia, are the brain’s immune system. They clamber through the neurological forest in search of debris from dead or injured cells. A third class of glia, known as Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes, form insulating sleeves around neurons to keep their electric signals from diffusing….”



brain, glia

The FACETS Project


“The goal of the FACETS (Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States) project is to create a theoretical and experimental foundation for the realisation of novel computing paradigms which exploit the concepts experimentally observed in biological nervous systems.”



AI, brain, embodiment

Walter J. Ong – 90, Jesuit, Teacher and Scholar of Language — NY Times Obituary – Aug.12/2003


“In that modern culture of secondary orality, he [Ong] held, people do not learn language naturally as part of growing up. Instead, he argued, they absorb it from television, compact discs and computer programs.”



brain, language, orality

DSI: The Brain Unmasked

New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity.


“Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) … uses magnetic resonance signals to track the movement of water molecules in the brain: water diffuses along the length of neural wires, called axons. Scientists can use these diffusion measurements to map the wires, creating a detailed blueprint of the brain’s connectivity.”



brain, infoViz, neuroscience

human default network

PLoS Biology – Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex


“The structural core contains brain regions that form the posterior components of the human default network.”



brain, humanoid, neuroscience

PEAR

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab.



academia, anomalies, brain, consciousness

“Victim of the Brain”
1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter”. Director Piet Hoenderdos.



brain, cognitive, recursion, victim



bird, brain, taxonomy



AI, brain, cruelty, epistemology, killing, neuroscience




ICORP


“…forming the mirror neuron system of the humanoid that is the target of implementation.”



bmi, brain, neuroscience