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Neurophilosophy: Lessons about memory from Homer Simpson
scienceblogs.com — In this clip from The Simpsons, Homer explains to Marge why he does not want to take an adult education class: "Every time I watch something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain." Watching the clip, or any other, engages multiple brain regions that act in parallel to generate a coherent conscious experience. For example, the visual cortica
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- CarStan, on 09/06/2008, -2/+8You have to be ***** kidding me!
20 minutes ago i had a Déjà vu while reading the 'Show me your Genitals' comments. So i decided to read up about Déjà-vus on good old wikipedia. 'Coherent conscious' is one of the things i read about.
And now that i'm going back to check out Digg i find THIS story on the FP?
Thats scary- Azohko, on 09/06/2008, -0/+16You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
- FrederikNS, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3Pure win!
Thank you sir, you just made my day - CarStan, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7It turns out its MAN! Dun DUN
- lennybird, on 09/06/2008, -1/+1... Your next stop, The Twilight Zone.
- FrederikNS, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3Pure win!
- armakaryk, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4Cursed by his own hubris.
- jessenoob, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3YOUR GENITALIA!
- Azohko, on 09/06/2008, -0/+16You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
- deboerpa, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3We are nothing more than uber biological computers, this stuff always fascinates me.
- dsmx, on 09/06/2008, -1/+1That's worth digging just for the simpsons clip.
- gijoel, on 09/06/2008, -3/+2You remember when I took those home wine making lessons and I forgot how to drive.
That's because you were drunk.
And how! - Skooma714, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1Albert Einstein didn't know a lot of common stuff for precisely this reason. So it goes anyway.
- sooch, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2FTA: "Some of these contained footage of animals engaging in various activities."
*insert joke about animal sex - xGeneric, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4Thumbnail looks like Prince.
- xGeneric, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2This is your brain.
This is your brain on The Simpsons. - bhny, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3"As far as we know, the human brain has an infinite capacity for the storage of information."
memory has to be finite unless it's magic.
very large != infinite - CriX, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1This is really interesting but it sounds so familiar... honestly, I feel like this type of thing was known in the 80's, wasn't it?
- manova, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1It is the single unit recording in a human hippocampus responding to the recall of visual stimuli that is really new. You are probably thinking of hippocampal place cells in rodents which has been around since the 70's I think.
- manova, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1Wow, I would have never seen this article if I had not turned off all political stories. It is almost like digg used to be.
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