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Sorin Adam Matei

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Movies Manipulate Your Brain with Neuroscientific Strategies to Keep you Watching (via Wired)

Great art relies on the technique of the missing element, which your mind completes or puts into motion. The knife plunging behind the shower curtain in Psycho is probably the best example. You infer the horror in your head, thinking of what…

IBM Cat Brain Simulation called a hoax

Henry Markram Image via Wikipedia Ridiculous pretense building upon pipedream smoke, this is the feeling a recent fight between computer scientists working on brain simulations seems to communicate. Two scientists have been pursuing the dream of simulating a simple mammalian brain (neurons,…