Comments on: Le Cerveau á Tous Les Niveaux. The Brain from Top to Bottom

Le Cerveau á Tous Les Niveaux. The Brain from Top to Bottom

ThusSpakeZarathustra — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:27:57 -0800

Get your learn on. 180+ ways of investigating the human brain = hours of fun for the whole family. Thanks to an innocuous question by a 5 year old, my entire evening is now being spent investigating and discussing the structure and workings of the human brain. This flash site lets you explore the workings of the brain according to 12 subject areas (each with subtopics which are not included in the "180" count), within each of which are 5 levels of organization from social to molecular, within each of which are three levels of explanation (beginner, intermediate, and advanced.) discovered via Wikipedia.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:56 -0800

What's with the brain posts lately? In other news, I'm still staring. The goats remain unchanged.

By: Naberius

Naberius — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:50:08 -0800

"The Emergence of Consciousness" will be online sometime in 2008... " Wow, these are exciting times we live in, huh? I can't wait to see what consciousness is like. (Though I suspect it's going to come as quite a rude shock to more than a few people...)

By: NikitaNikita

NikitaNikita — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:13:56 -0800

GuyZero: "What's with the brain posts lately?" We're all either a) neuroscientists, or b) zombies.

By: dawson

dawson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:06:22 -0800

YOU SCORE w/ this post.

By: ThusSpakeZarathustra

ThusSpakeZarathustra — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:46:32 -0800

Nikita - I can't speak to Zombies, but after an hour on this site, I performed my first frontal Lobotomy and published two papers on synaptic degredation patterns in Brazilian albino pygmy marmosets.

By: Alexandra Kitty

Alexandra Kitty — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:05:41 -0800

Zombies would find this post mouth-watering...quit taunting the zombies!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:42:05 -0800

Now that is an excellent brain site. Sweet! Thanks so much for this find ThusSpakeZarathustra.

By: protorp

protorp — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:41:01 -0800

That's great, thanks for the post.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:04:26 -0800

Thanks, I needed this.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:58:42 -0800

I'll believe that this million dollar phrenology is all it is cracked up to be when my local mechanic can, based on the flow of gasoline, point a part of car engine and tell me that it is the propulsion center. Until then fMRI is simply a measure of blood flow that gives us only a tiny fraction of the information people seem to think it does.