Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis

Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis: “Successful predictions are associated with the subjective experience of a smooth stream of consciousness. But a few times a minute, our predictions come out wrong and then we perceive a break in the stream of consciousness, accompanied by an uptick in activity of primitive parts of the brain involved with the MDS that regulate attention and adaptation to unpredicted changes.”

BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips'

BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips': Some future-gazers in the cognitive computing world have speculated that the technology will reach a tipping point where machine consciousness is possible.

Cooperation vs. Competition: Greed is good -- but only a moderate amount

Cooperation vs. Competition: Greed is good -- but only a moderate amount: "Relationships between cooperation, competition, and society have long been pondered by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and mathematicians. While (as might be expected) a range of conclusions have been reached, one factor that appears to be essential in achieving and maintaining an equitable distribution of human well-being is social cohesion – that is, a societal infrastructure characterized by high levels of cooperation and a large number of social ties between members of the population. At the same time, however, individual self-interest appears to be inversely related to – and indeed often leads to a breakdown of – social cohesion. As researchers in Switzerland have recently found, however, a moderate level of greed can actually establish a framework in which cooperation and agglomeration (grouping) flourish and societal cohesion prevails."

Karl Popper - Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind

Karl Popper - Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind

Capitalism Versus Science | In Defence of Marxism

Capitalism Versus Science | In Defence of Marxism The governments of the world clearly recognize this as a problem; every time they are met with a serious crisis, they throw their free-market ideals out the window and turn to the public sector. It has been argued many times that World War Two was won by nationalization and planning. Capitalism in Britain was essentially put on hold, so that the war effort could be effectively organized. In the United States, such large scale nationalization did not take place, but when it came to research and development, the private sector was not trusted to handle it on their own.

Chaos, Science and Marxism | In Defence of Marxism

Chaos, Science and Marxism | In Defence of Marxism
The tendency to self-organisation in nature is only the basis for consciousness, which can reach perfection only in a liberated, socialist society, conscious of all of society’s needs.

Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making | Spero News

Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making | Spero News: "While the concept of a human super-brain is analogous to social insects like bees and ants that collectively behave as a super-organism by gathering, processing and sharing information about their environment, there is one important difference, Hoffecker said. 'Human societies are not super-organisms -- they are composed of people who are for the most part unrelated, and societies filled with competing individuals and families.'"