Consciousness

Imagining being able to read others' thoughts

The ability to read others' thoughts may have taken a step closer to reality with the news that a group of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, reported they may have come up with a scientific way to read people’s minds.

Halcyon Imagines

posted on 1 February 2012

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Identifying the risks of "neuromania"

Philosopher Raymond Tallis and RSA CEO Matthew Taylor debated competing claims about the ability of neuroscience to explain behaviour, culture and society. Tallis argued that recent "mania" for putting neuro- in front of concepts as diverse as aesthetics and law is based on a reductionist overestimation of our current understanding of the brain. ...read more

Halcyon Identifies

posted on 27 July 2011

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Inspired by those "born on a blue day"

Having already read Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, it is interesting to now watch and listen to him too, as his linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia mean that his perception of words, numbers and colours weave together into a new way of understanding the world.