Category: who am I?

in motion

What is it about this time of the year; summer is long gone, winter is still a ways off.  We are in a time of transition, transition between seasons.  And so transition is a season unto itself.  New… Read More

i predict

To quote an article by BENEDICT CAREY from the this morning’s New York Times, “The brain evolved to predict, and it does so by identifying patterns”. We, as humans are the pattern finders.  We are wired that way. … Read More

a function of anatomy

While watching an episode of Nova Science Now, during a segment on how long term memory is effected by the hippocampus, someone uttered a remark stating that memory is a function of anatomy.  Well, my response is yea,… Read More

happy birthday

Today, February 12, 2009 is the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Abe Lincoln ( Feb. 12, 1809).  Today is also the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin.  Coincedence?  What else would you call it?

new insights

I’m reading Steven Pinker’s Blank Slate, which is increasing my awareness. First of all I have come to understand that what we call mind is really our brain.  You might think they are one in the same but,… Read More