Posts Tagged by human brain
Life forms are not machines and neurons are not neural networks
| November 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
From Mind Matters: Much popular literature leaves the impression that living organisms are machines or even billions of them linked together. For example, at Medium, we learn, Brains receive input from the outside world, their neurons do something to that input, and create an output. That output may be a thought (I want curry for […]
Can culture explain why brains have become bigger?
| November 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind |
From ScienceDaily: Humans have extraordinarily large brains, which have tripled in size in the last few million years. Other animals also experienced a significant, though smaller, increase in brain size. These increases are puzzling, because brain tissue is energetically expensive: that is, a smaller brain is easier to maintain in terms of calories. Building on […]
Researchers: Starchy food may have aided human brain development
| October 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind |
From ScienceDaily: A perennial topic in human evolution is, what gave humans an advantage? A logical response to the question is: Name just about anything and someone will make a case out of it. A little while ago, it was meat. This time, it’s starch. People with more copies of the AMY1 gene — and corresponding […]
New research: Human brains do not differ much from reptile brains
| September 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
These findings don’t show that reptiles are secretly smart. They mainly deepen the mystery of the human mind, which traverses regions unknown to any of them without the brain being that much different.
Unique type of cell found in human brain: rosehip neurons
| August 31, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
At least, it hasn’t been seen in other life forms. From ScienceDaily: Tamás and University of Szeged doctoral student Eszter Boldog dubbed these new cells “rosehip neurons” — to them, the dense bundle each brain cell’s axon forms around the cell’s center looks just like a rose after it has shed its petals, he said. […]
Human evolution researchers: Social challenges decreased brain size
| May 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind |
From evolutionary biologist Mauricio Gonzalez Forero at The Conversation: Most animals have brains in proportion to their body size – species with larger bodies often have larger brains. But the human brain is almost six times bigger than expected for our bodies. This is puzzling, as the brain is very costly – burning 20% of […]
