- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
- I The Physical World
- 1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account
- 2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- 3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible
- 4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
- 5 The Challenge of Climate Change
- 6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist
- 7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible
- 8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones
- 9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible
- 10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back
- 11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- II Information
- 12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
- 13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science
- 14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge
- 15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit
- 16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- 17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies
- 18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology
- 19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place
- 20 Encryption as a Human Right
- 21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology
- 22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic
- III Intelligence
- 23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron
- 24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- 25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango
- 26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- 28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet
- 29 There Will Be No End of Work
- 30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob
- 31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything
- 32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo
- IV Epilogue
- 33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- Chapter:
- (p.273) 24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- Source:
- Is the Universe a Hologram?
- Author(s):
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Adolfo Plasencia
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
In this dialogue, the Harvard neuroscientist, Alvaro Pascual-Leone initially reflects on the importance of ‘unlearning’ and forgetting. He then gives a detailed explanation of, and how he carries out, transcraneal magnetic stimulation (TMS) and how he uses this technology to fight diseases, as well as explaining his experiments on inattentional blindness. He then discusses how the brain acts as a hypothesis generator and whether the brain, the mind and the soul are different things or not. Later reflect on the questions: Is the mind and what we are a consequence of the brain’s structure? Do changes in the brain change our reality? And why are a person’s dreams important? Then he explains how freewill and decision-making work from the brain, and relates his vision of intelligence and where it may be generated from, explaining the differences between the mind and the brain. He finally reflects on what is known so far about the brain’s “dark energy” and the way we are continuously being surprised by the wonders of the brain's plasticity.
Keywords: Brain plasticity, Brain network dynamics, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Common knowledge, Inattentional blindness, Emergent properties of the brain, Cerebral networks, Brain’s expectation chains, The Brain’s Dark Energy, Self-reference effect
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
- I The Physical World
- 1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account
- 2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- 3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible
- 4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
- 5 The Challenge of Climate Change
- 6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist
- 7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible
- 8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones
- 9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible
- 10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back
- 11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- II Information
- 12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
- 13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science
- 14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge
- 15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit
- 16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- 17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies
- 18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology
- 19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place
- 20 Encryption as a Human Right
- 21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology
- 22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic
- III Intelligence
- 23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron
- 24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- 25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango
- 26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- 28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet
- 29 There Will Be No End of Work
- 30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob
- 31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything
- 32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo
- IV Epilogue
- 33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void
- Name Index
- Subject Index
