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BBI 2007 Session 9

 

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2007

Architecture: From the Output Side

Review

 

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BBI 2007 Session 3

Review

Science as loopy, story telling/revising rather than truth/facts

"I was intrigued when asked to decide rather or not the earth was round or flat. At first this seemed to be an easy question to answer based on what we are taught but by the end of the disscussion I was left questioning I had learned. We were given several more questions of this type and at the end I always questioned what I had been taught." .... Deidre

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BBI 2007 Session 2

 

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2007

Being a Scientist/Explorer/Creator (Theory):
Living (and Learning/Teaching) in Virtuality


Review

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Genes, Brains, and Being Social

The Gregarious Brain
David Dobbs
New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2007
(excerpts for discussion)

"If a person suffers the small genetic accident that creates Williams Syndrome, [s]he'll live with some fairly conventional cognitive deficits, like trouble with space and numbers, but also a strange set of traits that researchers call the Williams social phenotype or , less formally, the 'Williams personality': a love of company and conversation combined, often awkwardly, with a poor understanding of social dynamics and a lack of social inhibition.

Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty

 

Paths to Story Telling as Life:
Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty

Paul Grobstein
2 July 2007

(comments welcome, go to end;
see also Rorty, Non-Foundationalism and Story Telling: A Conversation)

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Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science

Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science
Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg
Science 316: 996-997, 2007 (18 May)
(excerpts for discussion)

 

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Welcome to Brain Stories

Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.

Brain Stories calls attention to recent findings that seem particularly interesting from Serendip's perspective and provides forum for discussion of them. Your thoughts on these are not only welcome but are an important part of helping everyone, including research scientists, make sense of what we are discovering and have yet to discover about the brain. Like all Serendip forums, this is a place not for conclusions but rather for thoughts in progress, a place to find ideas that might be helpful to you in developing your own stories about the brain and to leave ideas that might be helpful to others in developing theirs.

Web Papers for Evolution and Literature

ashiThe Change of the Simple
azambettiThe Final Mass Extinction
azambettiSynoptic Evolution
azambettiTimeless Stories
azambettiCultural Relativism and Alternative Unions
cevansEvolutionists vs. Creationists
cevansIntention in Science
cevansEvolution of Intent
Christina Cunnane Literary Evolution in a Biblical Perspective
Christina CunnaneEvolution of Thought Through Topic Variation
Christina CunnaneRecapitulation: Evidence For or Against Evolution?
Christina CunnaneBirthing Process Forces Cultural Evolution in Humans
CTTranslating between Species
CTCracks in the “Crack”: the Limits of Humanity
danYellTraining Aunt
danYellSubjectivity and evolution
danYellAspirant Evolution
danYellEvolution of Belief
EB Ver HoeveTo Be Significant
EB Ver HoeveExploring Moral Clarity via Control Theory
EB Ver HoeveEscaping from the Sea: Transforming the Written Word
ekornOn Cloning
ekornThe Different Sides of Emily
ekornFact or Fiction
ekornSurvival of the Consumed
Elise NiemeyerExtending Biological Evolution as a Metaphor for Cultural Development
Elise NiemeyerStory-making and “The Crack”
Elise NiemeyerEndings as Mirrors of Evolutionary Growth in Literature: Howards End and On Beauty
Elise NiemeyerRandomness versus Intent: the Lure of Security in Darwinian Evolution and Intelligent Design
evanstiegelThe Evolution of Racial Understand over Time
evanstiegelContemporary Evolution of Racial Mindset
evanstiegelEvolution in the Classroom
fortunesfoolCinderella and Evolution
fortunesfoolThe Incredible Storytelling of Creationists
fortunesfoolAquinas and Evolution
hayley reedAn Odyssey of Self Awareness: Considering the Conscious & Unconscious
hayley reedA Discovery of New Words & Worlds: Language's Direct Impact on Evolution
hayley reedTranslating Reality
hayley reedEvolving without a Plan
I.W.Finding a Path in the Absence of Truth
I.W.The Perpetual Motion of Evoultion
I.W.“And She Aches Just Like a Woman”
J ShafaghDynamic Homes: Representing Comfort in "Home," "Howard's End" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
J ShafaghFinal Class Summary and Evaluation
J ShafaghThe Evolution of Thought Affecting Biological Evolution
J ShafaghSpoken Word Performance: Understanding Reality
J ShafaghEvolution And Creationism In The Educational System
Jenn DodwellDarwinian Evolution: To What Extent Does it Apply to Man?
Julia SmithThe N-Word: Past Meaning and Contemporary Questions
Julia SmithThe Evolution of the Modern American Lesbian Community
Julia SmithOn Beauty: Joseph Chaikin, the Open Theater, and Postmodern American Theater
Julia SmithEvolution and Creationism: Separate Similar Searches
kaleigh19Why Teleology?
kaleigh19Intertextuality and Literary Evolution
Katherine RedfordUniversal Morality and the Attempt to Affect Evolution
Katherine RedfordLiterary Evolution as a Window into Social Evolution
Katherine RedfordMathematics and Being Less Wrong
Kristin JenkinsLost in Translation
Kristin JenkinsThe Story of Race and the Classification of People: Generative or Not?
Kristin JenkinsMind Wide Open - A Book Review
Kristin JenkinsThe Future of Human Evolution
LFIs man tampering with evolution?
llimEvolution as a Religion
llimFemales in the 16th and 21st Century: Gender Perception in Literature
llimTrial and Error: Humans as Evolutionary Mistakes
LSEvolution of Sex in Literature
LSWestern Society: Do We Control Natural Selection?
LSIn Evolution We Trust
LSE True Hollywood Stories: The Three Little Pigs
Mariellyssa WenkEvolution: Not Inevitable After All?
Mariellyssa WenkCulture, Characters and Evolution
Mariellyssa WenkLooking At Dennett's Meaning of Meaning of life
marquisedemerteuilEvolution of the Author/Subject in Sophie Calle's Exquisite Pain
marquisedemerteuilIs Zadie Smith's "Fail Better" a compelling way to view literature?
marquisedemerteuilFinal Paper! Intentionality and Authorship in Barthes, Foucault and Smith
marquisedemerteuilTheories of Cultural Evolution in an 18th Century French Novel
marquisedemerteuilFirst EvoLit Paper, Specifying the Self in Smith and Mayr
PriyadarshiniInteresting Article - Chimps making Weapons (At least the female chimps)
PriyadarshiniCan Evolution Evolve?
rebeccafarberHuman impact on evolution
rebeccafarberThe subconscious and conscious adaptation and evolution of literary stories
rebeccafarberThe evolution of humor and how it impacts evolution
SarahMalayaSniezekThe Evolution of Morality: A Skyhook versus Crane Approach
SarahMalayaSniezekBuilding Diversity: When a Diverse Student Body isn’t Enough
SarahMalayaSniezekEvolution and Intelligent Design in High Schools
SarahMalayaSniezekHow Groups Work: A Study of Group Dynamics and its Possible Negative Implications
ShannonGenius Loci: Connecting People, One Story at a Time
ShannonInquiring Success through Stories: "Curiouser & Curiouser"
ShannonYou Want Concrete? Hire a Construction Worker!
ShannonWhat Evolution Is...
ShannonNew Stories of the Evolution of Science through the Media
StudentThoughts on Thoughtlessness
StudentEvolving from a Classroom
StudentWhere's the Emotion? The Forgotten/Left Out of Biological Basic Needs
tbarryfiguBeyond Beauty and Beasts
tbarryfiguWe Refuse To Be Each Other
tbarryfiguTrial, Error, and Polymorphism
ttruongEmpathy and Social Failure
ttruongUniversals, Particulars, and Defining a Species
Tu-Anh VuViewing the Story of the Development of the Periodic Table as “Getting it Less Wrong”
Tu-Anh VuDarwinian Evolution in On Beauty
Tu-Anh VuThe Evolutionary Basis of Sleep
Tu-Anh VuA Reductionist Viewpoint on Evolution

 

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