Addictive Personalities
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about so-called "addictive personalities." He explains that the term itself is probably a misnomer, because there is no single personality configu...
Subject: brain
Transcript: addicted is that the drug Or the substance alters the brain. For example, in the case of cocaine which releases dopamine, That actually changes the dopamine
Genetics and Aging
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the link between genetics and aging. Dr. Hamer focuses on some of the more serious problems associated with age, in particular, Alzheimer's ...
Subject: brain
Transcript: they grew old But we now understand that there's a specific disease With a specific sort of brain chemistry involved In a formation of tangles and other
Computers, Consciousness and the Brain
Philosopher Daniel Dennett compares computers, which perform billions of operations sequentially, with the human brain, which Dennett calls a
Subject: brain
Transcript: called them giant, electronic brains. You don't hear that much anymore. But the first computers weren't at all like brains; They weren't parallel
Chess: Humans vs. Computers
Philosopher John Searle talks about how a computer plays chess. He states that the computer playing chess doesn't actually "think" in the way a human does. What the computer does, Professor Searle explains, is perform a massive number of simulations...
Subject: brain
Computer Simulations
Philosopher John Searle points out the difference between computer simulations--be they of the brain or a weather event or an explosion--and the real
Subject: brain
Transcript: The human brain as i said earlier is a biological Mechanism that causes certain things. It is a causal mechanism And among its most important
Can We Know God Through Experience?: Brain and Religious Experiences, The
Many believe that the actual origins of reported personal religious experiences are more human than divine. The brain is capable of lots of illusory
Subject: brain
Transcript: likely to be more human than divine. The brain is capable of lots and lots... Of illusory and hallucinatory activity. In fact, that's one of the things
The Social Role in the Self
Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about the self, noting that there's more to it than just intelligence. There is also a social component which Professor Dennett believes is just as critical as the intelligence component in enabling people to functio...
Subject: brain
Transcript: is given by genetic inheritance. Woodrow wilson once said, "i not only use all the brains i have But all that i can borrow". Those are the words of a
The Turing Test
Philosopher Hilary Putnam discusses the Turing test and explains why he doesn't think it's a valid method by which to establish that a machine can be considered conscious and capable of thinking.
Subject: brain
The Turing Test
a computer could simulate the working of a human brain.
Subject: brain
Transcript: That the brain is a digital computer But in the other hand you had the idea In artificial intelligence That we could actually design programs That would
Functionalism
essentially argues that the mind is not an object but, rather, a system of abilities. The second, related idea was that the brain is like a computer, and to
Subject: brain
Transcript: processes with any object Like the brain is already to make an error. But the other idea-which i think didn't work But which i think was very well worth