What else can brains do?

The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

جور دیگر دیدن پژوهشی در پیوند عرفان و هنر

Seeing things differently, as discussed in this paper, is the link between Sufism and art. It is a quality shared by both Sufis and artists. This quality has two dimensions: the dimension of insight and the dimension of actions. With their insights, artists and Sufis see the world differently. They see things that others do not see. They also see things that everybody else sees in different way...

Plastic neuroscience: studying what the brain cares about

Drawing on Allan Newell's "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win," this article proposes that neuroscience needs to go beyond binary hypothesis testing and design experiments that follow what neurons care about. Examples from Lettvin et. al. are used to demonstrate that one can experimentally play with neurons and generate surprising results. In this manner, brains are not confused wi...

Conservative and surgical management of foot and ankle sporting injuries in the weekend warrior

A clinical based review of the injuries that are regularly suffered by Joan and John Average is presented. Common presentations of conditions such as lateral ligament tears, talar osteochondral lesions, syndesmotic injuries and 5 Metatarsal fractures are discussed along with the management and prognosis of these problems. Questions are answered including how does it occur; what should I do abou...

Does What We Want Influence What We See?

I aim to show that the content of our perceptual states depends counterfactually on the action we want to perform. Most philosophical and psychological theories of perception claim or at least assume the opposite: they conceive of perception as allpurpose: what we want to do does not influence what we see. I will argue that the content of one's perceptual state does vary as the action one is in...