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Marie-Lise Pagé

Edge: ARE HUMAN BRAINS UNIQUE? By Michael Gazzaniga - 2 views

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humans mind unique mind brains

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  • Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
  • a simple sentiment yet so full of human complexity. Other apes don't have that sentiment.
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      Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
       
      It really shows us how something can be so normal to us when, in fact, it is complex and it's unique to us.
  • We did evolve and we are what we are through the forces of natural selection.
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  • All of us solve problems effortlessly and routinely.
  • We want to see our dogs charm us, appeal to our emotions, imagine they too can suffer and have pity, love and hate and all the rest
  • our brain parts can be replaced with silicon parts
  • Thousands of scientists and philosophers over hundreds of years have either recognized this uniqueness of ours or have denied it
  • Even though we have all of these connections with the biologic world from which we came, and we have in some instances similar mental structures, we are hugely different.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
     
    This is an interview with Micheal Gazzaniga who is one of the world's  leading neuroscientists. He really explains some of the unique features of our brains.
Marie-Lise Pagé

Deep Thoughts on What Makes Humans Special | LiveScience - 1 views

www.livescience.com/p-thoughts-humans-special.html

humans mind unique

shared by Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • share characteristics with humans such as politically motivated aggression, empathy and culture, but humans take them to a level without parallel among animals
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      Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
       
      Like we saw in the video Ape Genius
  • ey fall short of humans when considering secondary theory of mind
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  • uch capabilities allow humans to enjoy delicious stories with layers of intrigue and gossip,
  • humans can commonly extend empathy over time and space
  • exceptions as a mental illness that afflicts humans and animals alike.
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers ritualistically act out the same behavior again and again.
  • apolsky suggested two reasons not to worry
  • ne of the few differences between humans and chimps comes from the amount of cell division for brain cells
  • human behaviors stand out by reaching levels of complexity unseen in any other part of the animal world, according to a neurobiologist
  • What makes humans special comes in no small part from the sheer quantity of available brain power – at least 300,000 brain cells for each neuron in a fruit fly brain.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
     
    This website has a lot of information to help me in my project because it really helps me understand what makes the human mind unique. I also like that it compares to the Apes. It expalins the diffrences between the Apes and us. It also explains what makes us Human. However, it has a lot of scientific vocabulary that's hard to understand.
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110307101504.htm

shared by David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • features in the bones and musculature of the human hand and wrist associated with specific gripping and manipulatory capabilities that are different from those of other extant great apes
  • confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ancestors.
  • humans split from the last common ancestor
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  • Africa a
  • ow, researchers Dr Stephen Lycett and Alastair Key have shown that the hands of our ancestors may have been subject to natural selection as a result of using simple cutting tools
  • apes,
  • 2.6 million years ago,
  • show that 'biometric' variation
  • Darwin proposed that the use of stone tools may have influenced the evolution of human hands.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Quite Interesting, and quite helpful.
Jake Izenberg

New media and culture | TAB - 1 views

www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/...ab074.html

Culture and New Media

shared by Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • The goal as stated was to show »current and future impacts of the development of new media on the concept of culture, cultural policy, the cultural industry and cultural activities
  • sociological focus
  • understanding of the media
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  • socio-cultural
  • two levels
  • first level
  • second level
  • media are understood as the socio-technical and cultural practices of distributing and storing information which are used to shape communication and interaction and so help determine collective perception and experience in the everyday world
  • New Media« are media based technically on digitalisation, miniaturisation, data compression, networking and convergence.
  • transform the modes of communication in a way which departs from the established familiar forms of interpersonal communication, either direct or via media.
  • overarching trends
  • we use the findings of the unique series of international surveys of mass communication
  • current media development
  • Competition through supplementation is increasingly turning into predatory competition for increasingly scarce time budgets
  • (PCs with multimedia capability, Internet, mobile radio
  • different levels of Internet use
  • cultural content
  • newspaper reading
  • TV viewing
  • groups and humanity as a whole
  • Changes in readership and reading behaviour
  • dramatic changes in reading strategies
  • reading motivation
  • This threatens to erode a cultural technique which is the basis not only for reading books and newspapers but also for using the New Media.
  • Trends in scientific concepts of culture
  • example
  • necessary to look at historical processes of change in the understanding of culture
  • social sciences
  • In future we can in any case expect greater individualisation and differentiation in media use patterns, the »average user« will ultimately become a construct remote from reality.
  • almost general expansion of the concept of culture
  • a renewed interest in the culture of the individual
  • between cultural and media development
  • Recently the history of concepts of culture in social sciences
  • philosophical
  • overcoming colonialism
  • This makes cross-border movements, interculturalism and hybridisation more important for cultural theory; media development, transnational cultural relationships, intercultural exchange and migration become even more important topics for research.
  • Cultural development, New Media and media culture
  • the media is mostly given outstanding and still growing cultural significance
  • recent debates
  • finally the increase in the importance for the understanding of culture of new (or what are perceived as new) cultural communities, groups and contexts.
  • communications technologies
  • the current status of the concept of culture in science and politics is not a fashionable phenomenon, but rather »evidence of a significant social development«, a »development from the domination of things to a domination of knowledge«
  • There is disagreement inter alia about whether cultural development is tending to blend with media development (or already has blended with it) and whether cultural theory should accordingly be primarily (or even exclusively) pursued in terms of media cultural theory
  • Media markets: an overview
  • Cultural globalisation and the New Media
  • In dealing with the interactions between the change in concepts of culture and recent media development, the mutually impacting trends of individualisation and cultural globalisation become issues leading to further depths. Both issues are extremely important for the current debate on media development.
  • individualisation« or »personalisation
  • media services with a customised nature
  • sociological theories of individualisation as such. Besides socio-structural individualisation promoted inter alia by decoupling class membership and consumption, processes like isolation/privatisation and autonomisation – in other words, competent coping with media-based growth in cultural options for choice and action – should be noted (A. Honneth)
  • economic globalisation
  • cultural globalisation
  • show on the one hand that the development of the New Media has aroused (often vague-seeming) fears and hopes, while euphoria over technology and pessimism over culture are relatively evenly divided between the political and social trends. Conversely, there is also the tendency in these debates to pursue older scientific arguments and view the development of the New Media in the context of specific media-historical, social-theoretical or philosophical considerations.
  • unanimous agreement that the New Media, and particularly the Internet, are of central importance
  • The current crisis in traditional concepts of culture is apparently closely connected with the recent development in the media, as the New Media change the cultural significance of physical proximity and separation
  • Connected individuals – according to a widespread view – grow through interactive and communicative actions beyond the limits of local communities and national societies, and are able to participate in transnational cultural exchanges and make themselves felt as an individual, a member of a group or of an international movement.
  • economic and cultural globalisation are highly controversial issues in political and scientific debate
  • Content
  • Communication channels
  • Terminals and associated components
  • Digital interactive TV
  • Mobile radio and UMTS
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      Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
       
      Goog information 
  • The three basic studies carried out for TAB
  • Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
     
    teacher for 5 minutes   This is a great article for my topic and has a lot of information that is useful for me. There are examples, studies and more. The lay out is well done and it is organized well. 
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