22 5 / 2013
flintstones-chewable-morphine:
man does bad thing: not all men are like that
man does good thing: men are so much better at this thing than women are
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21 5 / 2013
21 5 / 2013
I’ve been getting slightly more nervous with each passing week at work, but at the same time, some of that is excitement. I learned in mid-April that I’m being promoted at the start of July. I’m replacing our current MRI data research analyst/coordinator. This might ensure that I never have to return to school seeing as the girl I’m replacing is like me (only has a bachelor’s) but works alongside post-docs and regularly consults with the chairman of psychiatry at UofC. The list of shit that I have to teach myself keeps growing weekly, but… I’m excited? Uhhh life is good, that’s all.
20 5 / 2013
The brain has been traditionally viewed as a deterministic machine where certain inputs give rise to certain outputs. However, there is a growing body of work that suggests this is not the case. The high importance of initial inputs suggests that the brain may be working in the realms of chaos, with small changes in initial inputs leading to the production of strange attractors. This may also be reflected in the physical structure of the brain which may also be fractal. EEG data is a good place to look for the underlying patterns of chaos in the brain since it samples many millions of neurons simultaneously. Several studies have arrived at a fractal dimension of between 5 and 8 for human EEG data. This suggests that the brain operates in a higher dimension than the 4 of traditional space-time. These extra dimensions suggest that quantum gravity may play a role in generating consciousness.
(Image courtesy: Kookmin University)
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20 5 / 2013
Malachite with shattuckite and dioptase; Kunene Region, Namibia
