Everybody’s got a hungry Heart
I have recently moved from a 130 year old house in town, to an isolated spot on the West Coast with muddy paths and basic amenities – like when I was growing up. I have come full circle. As I was cooking dinner in my new place the other night, a Bruce Springsteen song leapt […]
Brain Activity Data – a new Prediction Tool?
The future has always been hard to predict. But what if the best prediction tool is actually our own brain waves?
A little bit of time
We cannot see time but our experience of it is profound.
Probability and Frequency- what to use?
The different ways we can se the same information
Emotion – at the hidden heart of thinking
The value function curve. By Lauren Rosenberger I was blobbed out on the couch watching the end of L.A. Story when the narrator’s phrase struck: ‘Why do we never know when we’ve found love, but we always know when we’ve lost it?’ I was struck, because I knew the answer. And it’s to do with […]
The Illusion of Happiness
BREAKING NEWS! Happiness may not exist. It may just be the biggest, most publicized, the most searched for feeling ever, and it may not exist. In fact searching for it may make you depressed.
How the Brain Thinks
In this book, I show how a hierarchy of functions within the brain produce attention, consciousness, emotion, memory and perception. These are largely mediated by frontal cortical circuits.
What is Consciousness?
One of the main problems with the study of consciousness is that there is no widely accepted definition of what consciousness actually is. So, how do we study something that may not actually exist?