Frederick Travis, PhD, is the director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at the Maharishi University of Management, an institution dedicated to promoting transcendental meditation (TM [image a copyright symbol here]) in all possible venues. This talk was given at Stanford University. We Create Our Reality Published on Aug 1, 2014 Frederick Travis, … Read more
The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences hosts every Thursday Neuroscientists from around the globe to present their recent study. Earlier this year, Stanislas Dehaene gave a talk on the work of his lab in understanding the signatures of consciousness, the distinct markers of brain activity that correlate with subjective reports of conscious … Read more
Bruce Hood is the author of The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity (2012). His new book is The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction, and he was at The RSA in England recently to talk about the new book. Bruce Hood on the Domesticated Brain 7th May 2014 Listen to the audio (full … Read more
Here is a summary of some of the research presented at the 2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Daisy Yuhas at Scientific American Observations blog does the summarizing. Brains in Boston: Weekend Recap of Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s Annual Meeting By Daisy Yuhas | April 8, 2014 Greetings from Boston where the 21st annual meeting of … Read more
In this talk from University of Oregon Conference on Biosemiotics and Culture, Søren Brier, Professor of Culture and Communication Studies, Copenhagen Business School, gives a presentation on the development of cyber(bio)semiotics. You can read more of his papers on Academia.edu. What is Cybersemiotics? What makes Cybersemiotics different than other approaches attempting to make a transdisciplinary … Read more