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Neurologe Wolf Singer: KI, menschliches Gehirn und hybride Intelligenz
Als wären die Hiobsbotschaften aus den Krisenherden der Welt, die zynischen Rechtfertigungen der Hegemonen für Gewalt und die jüngsten Daten zur Beschleunigung der Erderwärmung und des Artensterbens nicht genug. Jetzt mutiert auch noch der einstige Hoffnungsträger für eine schönere neue Welt, die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), zu einem Moloch, der sich der Kontrolle seiner Schöpfer zu entziehen droht. Diesmal kommen die Unkenrufe von den Konzernzentralen selbst und deshalb nicht von ungefähr.
The Mind-Matter Dichotomy: A Persistent Challenge for Neuroscientific and Philosophical Theories
Review The European journal of neuroscience. 2025 May;61(10):e70143. doi: 10.1111/ejn.70143 Q22.72024 Wolf Singer 1 作者单位 +展开 作者单位 1 Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.70143 PMID: 40384323 摘要 Ai翻译 Several areas of cognitive neuroscience tackle traditional philosophical questions.
The Mind-Matter Dichotomy: A Persistent Challenge for Neuroscientific and Philosophical Theories
1 Similarities Between Science and Philosophy Novalis, a writer and philosopher of the early German Romanticism, once stated: ‘Im Grunde ist jeder Mensch ein Philosoph’, meaning that basically, every human is a philosopher. And Jakob Bronoswski, a British mathematician and historian of science (1908–1974), concluded ‘All humans are scientists’. If one considers these statements as valid, they imply that all scientists are philosophers and, vice versa, all philosophers are scientists.
Hunger Isn’t About Food; It’s About Power
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Building on over 25 years of research and advocacy, Mariana Chilton’s incendiary new book, “The Painful Truth about Hunger in America,” offers a deep, structural analysis of the many harms of hunger. This study is relentless in its examination of state violence and intergenerational trauma and how both are directly related to marginalized folks’ experience of food insecurity.
The functional role of oscillatory dynamics of neocortical circuits: a computational perspective
Abstract The dynamics of neuronal systems are characterized by hallmark features such as oscillations and synchrony. However, it has remained unclear whether these characteristics are epiphenomena or are exploited for computation.
The functional role of oscillatory dynamics of neocortical circuits: a computational perspective
Abstract Biological neuronal networks exhibit hallmark features such as oscillatory dynamics, heterogeneity, modularity, and conduction delays. To investigate which of these features support computations or are epiphenomena, we simulated recurrent networks and analyzed the effects of implementing these features on performance in benchmark tests for pattern classification.
On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation.
The Powerful Case for Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease
Without a precise and accurate definition, we may never find a cure. BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The signature case of Alzheimer’s disease was a German woman named Auguste whose mental status began to deteriorate to the extent that her husband brought her to a psychiatry clinic in Frankfurt. As is traditional, the scientific literature until very recently referred to Auguste merely by her first name plus the initial of her last name — Auguste D.
Initiativen von Merkel: Behutsame Strategie wird nicht hinterfragt
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The Remarkable Ways Our Brains Slip Into Synchrony
Many of our most influential experiences are shared with and, according to a growing body of cognitive science research, partly shaped by other people. Illustration: MIT Press Reader In the 1970s, an American candy company began an advertising campaign for peanut butter cups. In the television commercial, one person is walking down a busy city sidewalk while eating a chocolate bar, and another person is walking toward them while eating peanut butter from a jar.
Neuroscience Has a Lot To Learn from Buddhism
Can training the mind make us more attentive, altruistic, and serene? Can we learn to manage our disturbing emotions in an optimal way? What are the transformations that occur in the brain when we practice meditation? In a book titled Beyond the Self, two friends—Matthieu Ricard, who left a career as a molecular biologist to become a Buddhist monk in Nepal, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—engage in an unusually well-matched conversation about meditation and the brain.
Neuronal oscillations: unavoidable and useful?
Neuronal systems have a high propensity to engage in oscillatory activity because both the properties of individual neurons and canonical circuit motifs favour rhythmic activity. In addition, coupled oscillators can engage in a large variety of dynamical regimes, ranging from synchronization with different phase offsets to chaotic behaviour. Which regime prevails depends on differences between preferred oscillation frequencies, coupling strength and coupling delays.
Neuroscience Has a Lot To Learn from Buddhism
Can training the mind make us more attentive, altruistic, and serene? Can we learn to manage our disturbing emotions in an optimal way? What are the transformations that occur in the brain when we practice meditation? In a new book titled Beyond the Self, two friends—Matthieu Ricard, who left a career as a molecular biologist to become a Buddhist monk in Nepal, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—engage in an unusually well-matched conversation about meditation and the brain.
Neuronal oscillations: unavoidable and useful?
Neuronal systems have a high propensity to engage in oscillatory activity because both the properties of individual neurons as well as canonical circuit motifs favour rhythmic activity. In addition, coupled oscillators can engage in a large variety of dynamical regimes, ranging from synchronization with different phase offsets to chaotic behaviour. Which regime prevails depends on differences between preferred oscillation frequencies, coupling strength and coupling delays.
Synaptic plasticity in the absence of backpropagating spikes of layer II inputs to layer V pyramidal cells in rat visual cortex
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