Quoted: Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on.

Quoted: This theory puts forward the notion that depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person.

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Quoted: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

I had never heard of the Travelers dilemma before, but it is an interesting problem.

Quoted: Scenarios of this kind, in which one or more individuals have choices to make and will be rewarded according to those choices, are known as games by the people who study them (game theorists). I crafted this game, "Traveler's Dilemma, in 1994 with several objectives in mind: to contest the narrow view of rational behavior and cognitive processes taken by economists and many political scientists, to challenge the libertarian presumptions of traditional economics and to highlight a logical paradox of rationality.

I totally pwned this test. I scored higher than average in every single test. Sweet. Oh, and my brain leans to the male side 50%.

Angles- 19/20
Spot the different- 57%
Hands- Right
Empathising- 11
Systemizing- 16
Eyes- 9/10
Fingers: Right- 0.92, left 0.96 (albeit with a crappy ruler)
Faces- I prefer more feminine
3D Shapes- 12/12
Words- 13
Ultamatum- 49 (haha)

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Quoted: BACTERIA cause disease. The idea that they might also prevent disease is counterintuitive. Yet that is the hypothesis Chris Lowry, of Bristol University, and his colleagues are putting forward in Neuroscience. They think a particular sort of bacterium might alleviate clinical depression.

Quoted: A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer -- meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on "Blue Brain" promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness.

Fascinating

Quoted: Aristotle declared that humans are the only animal to laugh, but then, he never saw this video of Jaak Panksepp tickling rats.