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| How the brain is and isn't like a muscle |
 Use it or lose it, they say. The saying holds not only for muscle fitness, but also for the brain. The Romans already knew that 'mens sana in corpore sano' and today we know that both physical and mental fitness, exercis...[more] |
| brain default network spontaneity behavior |
| Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 - 19:20:45 |
| Wordle for my upcoming article on free will |
| The Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences have asked me to write a review article for a special issue on 'minibrains'. The topic of my article was to deal with free will and invertebrates. I just submit...[more] |
| free will freedom behavioral variability spontaneous activity spontaneity Proc. Roy. Soc. |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 November 2010 - 09:46:04 |
| I just talked 3.5h to Bob Doyle on the phone! |
| I've just hung up the phone and need to write a short note to mark the occasion. Bob Doyle had contacted my PhD supervisor Martin Heisenberg about his Nature article on free will with a blog post on the article. Heisenbe...[more] |
| doyle semantic web collaboration system free will spontaneity heisenberg |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 21:56:04 |
| Interview with German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has just come out |
| A few weeks ago I had a phone interview with a German freelance journalist about my review article suggesting an approach towards a scientific concept of free will. Today the article appeared in the largest German subscr...[more] |
| Süddeutsche interview journalist newspaper free will spontaneity |
| Posted on Thursday 10 February 2011 - 16:05:39 |
| How brains generate variable behavior |
 Animals constantly have to adapt to varying environmental conditions, explore new situations and figure out new strategies to catch prey or avoid predators. On the other hand, they need to be able to behave consistently...[more] |
| Aplysia behavior SfN meeting variability spontaneity |
| Posted on Sunday 18 October 2009 - 20:38:02 |
| ...and now for some rest |
| Daniel Margulies gave a talk last night entitled "Mapping neuroanatomy with resting-state functional connectivity fMRI". This is the video he showed after his presentation: This is the abstract of his talk:...[more] |
| fMRI default network resting-state brain activity spontaneous activity spontaneity |
| Posted on Friday 22 January 2010 - 19:12:58 |
| All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology |
| I have no idea when it started, but probably long before Darwin, the notion of 'design' kept creeping into descriptions of biological organisms or traits: Birds are designed to fly or the eye is designed to see. I've als...[more] |
| free will evolution creationism degeneracy brains spontaneity |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 June 2010 - 22:05:40 |
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