The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning (58 page)
Authors: Daniel Bor
BOOK: The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
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genetic
lost due to stroke
Imagination
Inferotemporal cortex
Information
acquiring
analysis of
atoms of
brain process
carrying capacity
color based
combined
competing
complex
compressing
consciousness and
distribution of
fidelity of
flow of
hierarchy
increase in
input of
letters of in genetics
lower-level
manipulating
neurons and
physical structure of primordial life and
quantity of
redundancy in.
See also
Chunking
See also
Chunking
semi-chaotic activity and
sequence of
sharing
sources of
storing
streaming
visual
Information integration theory
Information processing
attention and
brain and
consciousness and
enhancing
levels of
unconsciousness and
Information structure.
See also
Structure
See also
Structure
Innovations
chaotic
consciousness and
desperate times and
evolutionary
maximal
primate
spurious
tools of
Insanity
Instinct
language
Intellect
impoverished
Intelligence.
See also
IQ artificial
See also
IQ artificial
Interactions
neural
social
Internal worlds
IQ
ADHD and
autism and
Raven’s Progressive Matrices
Wechsler Intelligence Scales
Jackson, Frank
Jackson, Michael
James, Iain
Kahneman, Daniel
Kanai, Ryota
Kanzi
(Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin)
(Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin)
Kawachi, Ichiro
Keeling, Jeremy
Kelvin, Lord
Ketamine
Klingberg, Torkel
Knight, Bob
Knowledge
accumulating
consciousness and
hierarchy of
strength of
structured
unconscious
Kornell, Nate
Lamme, Victor
Language.
See also
Grammar; Speech
See also
Grammar; Speech
autism and
binary
body
brain and
chunking and
computers and
developmentally delayed
DNA
learning
production
Larsson, Stieg
Learning
anesthesia and
animal capacity for
avoiding physical damage by
collective
complex
consciousness and
evolution and
exploiting opportunities for
forms of
maximizing
memory and
permanence of
process
rudimentary
sleep required for effective
strategies.
See also
Chunking
See also
Chunking
unconscious
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Levin, Daniel
Lewin, Roger
Libet, Benjamin
Life.
See also
Organisms
See also
Organisms
death barely dissociable from
origins of
Limbic system
Logic
Logothetis, Nikos
Lucas, Michel
Luria, Alexander
Luzzatti, Claudio
Mandarin
Marslen-Wilson, William
Mary and knowing what it is like
Massimini, Marcello
Matata, story of
Mathematics and mental arithmetic
Matrix, The
(film)
(film)
Meaning.
See also
Chinese Room argument
See also
Chinese Room argument
consciousness and
Medical Research Council (MRC), Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Medications.
See
Drugs
See
Drugs
Meditation
brain changes and
consciousness and
long-term shifts from
working memory and
Meditations on First Philosophy
(Descartes)
(Descartes)
Memorization
Memory.
See also
Working memory
See also
Working memory
brain areas
chunks and.
See also
Chunking; Chunks
See also
Chunking; Chunks
content
effective
learning and
long-term
loss
motor
neurons and
problems with
resources
rudimentary forms of
short-term
strategies with.
See also
Strategies
See also
Strategies
structured
superior.
See also
Tammet, Daniel
See also
Tammet, Daniel
tests
thought and
Mental illness.
See also
Anxiety;
See also
Anxiety;
Asperger’s Syndrome; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
Autism; Bipolar disorder;
Depression; Obsessive
compulsive disorder;
Schizophrenia
brain abnormalities and
consciousness and
pandemic of
political neglect of
reinforcing by habit
stress and
Mental retardation
Mental states
Michelson, Albert
Miller, George
Mind.
See also
Brain
See also
Brain
conscious.
See
Consciousness
See
Consciousness
unconscious.
See
Unconsciousness
See
Unconsciousness
Mind-body duality
Mirror-recognition test
Monkeys
Monti, Martin
Moore, Christopher
Moral questions, consciousness and
Morley, Edward
Motivations.
See also
Drives; Goals
See also
Drives; Goals
Movement
behavior and
senses and
MRI.
See also
Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI
See also
Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI
Multiple personality disorder
Music, structures and
Mutations rates of
Nagel, Thomas
Nash, John: paranoid delusions of
Natural selection.
See also
Evolution
See also
Evolution
Neglect
Nematode worm (
Caenorhabditis elegans
)
Caenorhabditis elegans
)
Networks
brain regions, connected in.
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
diverse forms of, with similar characteristics
fungal
informational/knowledge
neuronal
nodes in a
theories of consciousness and
Neurochemicals.
See
Neurotransmitters
See
Neurotransmitters
Neurology
Neurons
activity of
artificial
characteristics of
communication by
competition between
computing by
connection of
consciousness and
cortex and
in FFA
flexibility in
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