Brain-Based Devices

From an interview with Gerald Edelman (h/t: Cosmic Variance):

How are you pursuing the creation of conscious artifacts in your work at the Neurosciences Institute?
We construct what we call brain-based devices, or BBDs, which will be increasingly useful in understanding how the brain works and modeling the brain. They may also be the beginning of the [...]

Varia

A recent study shows that electrical stimulation in the posterior parietal cortex can produce feelings of free will, despite an action never being carried out. (You can find the original article here.)

A fantastic review of Zizek’s Parallax View and In Defence of Lost Causes over at I Cite. It also includes a concise and dense [...]