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		<title>Your Life Is An Algorithm, Your Brain Is An Operating System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been constant talk of the blurring of our online and offline lives. With the current generation of tools, algorithms and utilities, we may have reached a new inflection point in the human race for artificial intelligence. We used to talk in terms of “the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.” Soon, we may need another metaphor: “the second brain not knowing what the first brain is doing.”]]></description>
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		<title>How To Train Your Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being organized is not just about a cluttered desk. It’s about self-regulation, a skill that is developed by the pre-frontal cortex--the seat of executive function in the brain. The left pre-frontal cortex regulates your attention: it evaluates, judges, makes decisions. Those who have naturally strong self-regulation can handle overloads—and those who don’t are left feeling guilty and out of control. But the plasticity of the brain means we can all learn to be better focused and more organized. If you learn how your brain works and work with it, you can start to exercise more cognitive control over your own functioning. The first step is to figure out what is it that you really want that being organized will give you.]]></description>
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		<title>Memories Are Crucial For Imagining The Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past and future may seem like different worlds, yet the two are intimately intertwined in our minds. In recent studies on mental time travel, neuroscientists found that we use many of the same regions of the brain to remember the past as we do to envision our future lives. In fact, our need for foresight may explain why we can form memories in the first place. They are indeed “a base to build the future.” And together, our senses of past and future may be crucial to our species’ success.]]></description>
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		<title>The Optimism Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Johnson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better than they wind up being. People hugely underestimate their chances of getting divorced, losing their job or being diagnosed with cancer; expect their children to be extraordinarily gifted; envision themselves achieving more than their peers; and overestimate their likely life span (sometimes by 20 years or more).]]></description>
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		<title>Marbles: The Brain Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerri Husch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marbles: The Brain Store is a one-of-a-kind retail store with a smart collection of hand-picked, expert-tested, certifiably fun ways to a healthier brain for all ages. The best part? Our stores are designed to let you roll up your sleeves and get a little brainy while you play games, solve puzzles, try out software and flip through books to find the right products for you and your noggin. Our team is chock-full of smart, outgoing people who are passionate about learning new things and creating a fun, interactive environment where customers can reach their brain’s fullest potential.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Two Minds: A Conversation On Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is so fascinating is the limitation of the reasoning space -- the screens in which we exhibit our brain maps. We have many such screens: visual screens, but also "screens" for sound, for touch, for olfaction (smell). The brain has discrete anatomical spaces for each one. There is no doubt that when you are listening to Mahler symphony and watching Daniel Barenboim conducting at the same time, you are having perceptual impressions in two entirely different screen spaces, auditory and visual. Those spaces are so independent that they might as well be in two different cities of your brain.]]></description>
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		<title>12 Steps To Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The patterns, or maps, of the mind represent things or events outside the brain, either in the body or in the external world. Ultimately, consciousness allows us to experience maps as images, to manipulate those images, and to apply reasoning to them. Maps are constructed when we interact with objects, such as a person, a machine, or a place, from the outside of the brain toward its interior. Maps are also constructed when we recall objects from inside our brain's memory banks. The construction of maps never stops, even in our sleep. The human brain maps whatever object sits outside it, whatever action occurs outside it, and all the relationships that objects and actions assume in time and space, relative to each other and to the mother ship known as the organism.]]></description>
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		<title>TED Video: How People Become Monsters Or Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Johnson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What makes good people do bad things? Where do the balances between individual and social responsibility lie? Amongst other solutions, acting socio-centrically, rather than egocentrically is a step. Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychological Refractory Period</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCoylogy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologists have long been puzzled by the psychological refractory period because it doesn’t fit with other things we know about how the brain works. We are very good at doing many things at once. As you read this column, your brain can also manage your heartbeat, perceive the melody of a song playing on the radio, and send out complicated instructions for drinking a cup of coffee. It can do all of that because it is parceled into hundreds of relatively self-contained regions. These regions can work on difference tasks at the same time. Yet there are simple jobs – like math problems – that our brains can handle only one at a time. It is as if the signals were flying down a 20-lane superhighway, and then the road narrowed to a single lane.]]></description>
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		<title>TED Video: The Social Animal</title>
		<link>http://www.everythingology.com/ted-video-the-social-animal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.]]></description>
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