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  • Editor-in-Chief, Verto Literary Group
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Struggles with consciousness, will power, and other things not understood | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

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By Gareth Cook, Claire Ainsworth Verified
| Before It's News
Struggles with consciousness, will power, and other things not understood % of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents. Regular readers of this blog know I have written many times about consciousness, the most recent post being, “If you can’t measure it, is it science?
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Sarcasm Spurs Creative Thinking

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By Francesca Gino, Gareth Cook
| Pocket
Clever quips can trigger creative sparks. Photo by Adrian Brockwell/500px/Getty Images “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence,” that connoisseur of witticisms, Oscar Wilde, is said to have remarked. But not everyone shares his view. Communication experts and marriage counselors alike typically advise us to stay away from this particular form of expression.
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A Neuroscientist's Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain

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By Gareth Cook
| Scientific American Verified
What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung argues that it’s all in the connections our neurons make. In his new book, Connectome , he argues that technology has now reached a point where it is conceivable to start mapping at least portions of the connectome. It’s a daunting task, he says, but without it, neuroscience will be stuck. He answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook.
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