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| Deleted User | May 15 2009, 06:25 PM Post #1 |
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Interesting development supporting the hypothesis life can emerge from non-life. No, breeze, this is not the Medieval Christian belief in spontaneous generation where rats were found in grain barrels. Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime
Second source: Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory. |
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| ngc1514 | May 15 2009, 08:42 PM Post #2 |
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An interesting piece in the May 11th issue of The New Yorker about neurologist Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition. The doctor has opened up many interesting lines of research into neurological problems including the "mirror cure" for phantom limb pain and an approach to treating apotemnophilia - the compulsion to have a healthy limb amputated. As the article states, Ramachandran "has a reputation among his peers for being able to solve some of the most mystifying riddles of neuroscience." Interesting reading, but what caught my attention is his hypothesis on the creation of consciousness in the human brain. He is basing this, in part, on what are known as "mirror neurons," neurons which - from the Wiki article on the subject:
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Amazing! Not fully accepted, of course and the Wiki article does mention a couple citations of cases where But it is just another instance where it appears mind is just something that the brain does and is not some spark instilled in us from without. The problem of consciousness and self-awareness remains one of the biggies in the bio-sciences and it's amazing that the first steps in cracking it have, apparently, been taken. Edited by ngc1514, May 15 2009, 08:44 PM.
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| Deleted User | May 16 2009, 01:14 AM Post #3 |
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Yes, I've read before about these mirror neurons, and how it's hypothesized these form the basis of self-reflection, self-awarenees. The beginnings of this can be traced back to Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments. |
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