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On "Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience" aka the "hard" problem | Thinkahol's... - 0 views

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    What had been lacking until relatively recently was an overarching framework or theory through which to grasp the nature of consciousness. The lack of a general theory of consciousness, of how it comes to be that there is something that it is like to be, was really the last rational bastion of opposition to the scientific assertion that consciousness emerges from the brain.
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Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward - life - 27 June 2011 - New Scie... - 0 views

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    Automated genetic tinkering is just the start - this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans
Jose M Perez

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eye... - 0 views

  • 2–3-cm paired eyes from the early Cambrian (approximately 515 million years old
  • Anomalocaris
  • at least 16,000 hexagonally packed ommatidial lenses (in a single eye)
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  • origin of compound eyes deeper down the arthropod stem lineage
  • evolved before such features as a hardened exoskeleton
  • processing of visual information would have required
  • sophisticated nektonic predators with acute vision
  • brain to be of comparable complexity to
  • modern) arthropods
  • within Cambrian communities would have placed considerable selective pressures on prey that would have influenced the ‘arms race’ that began during this important phase in early animal evolution
  • sophisticated
  • Nature International
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