mindful May 28, 2007
Posted by ocmpoma in : other , trackbackIf you haven’t checked out the TedTalks site lately (linked over there on the right under ‘podcasts’), I strongly advise you to check out this one, where Jeff Hawkins talks a bit about brains and the theory thereof (or lack of one). I, for one, would be quite interested in what the nuero-minded members of the forums think about it - Interesting? Blah? Completely off the wall, or yeah, we know that already?
Also, he notes some things that a handful of great theories have in common — the fact that they contradicted an “intuitive, strongly held, but incorrect” idea of how the world works. Another thing those theories have in common is that they are all subjected to denialists (almost always from the religious camp) such as creationists. In other words, the reason why there are groups of people who insist that Darwin was wrong, but no such anti-Newtonians, is that Darwin’s work violated such a belief about the world, and Newton’s didn’t.
Oh, and back to brains, you might want to look at this article from the Economist, if for nothing else than the cool picture.
Tags for this article: creationism , science
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