@picard @jarulf @bookstodon This is a piece from 2013: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
The perception of silence https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301463120 "Silence is truly perceived, not merely inferred"; but no "OFF cells" like with darkness detection in the human retina?
Do we actually "hear" silence? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-actually-hear-silence/ "An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they hear music or noise."
Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.
Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
https://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization
@SeaMonster Thank you
Ahhh, the (Eurasian) Robins are out in force today. Here is one of many posing in a nearby shrub as I walked past
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK
From hearing colors to seeing ultraviolet, is enhancement the future of human senses? https://theswaddle.com/from-hearing-colors-to-seeing-ultraviolet-is-enhancement-the-future-of-human-senses/
@seeingwithsound I see your point on how AI generated information could negatively affect such technology. It seems some sort of built-in fact check is needed, but not sure how it can be implemented.
Even though I am relatively new to #qoto and #mastodon, what I like about the #fediverse is its decentralised nature. I know that some will find this aspect quite disconcerting. Due to its nature, one is empowered to become one's own #algorithm. In order to populate a #timeline, the onus is upon the user to follow #hashtags liberally, as there is no all-seeing, all-knowing #algorithm to do the work.
#AI could change how #blind people #see the world https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gpt4-could-change-how-blind-people-see-the-world/ by kharijohnson@mastodon.social; AI image-to-text models "can make up information, or '#hallucinate'"; now try to identify that gorilla...
Auditory cortex conveys non-topographic sound localization signals to visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.28.542580v1
More information in the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/MazoCamille/status/1663131647674294274 #neuroscience
Where imagination lives in your brain https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-imagination-lives-in-your-brain/ "there is absolutely no way you can imagine anything without the past"; #hippocampus #aphantasia
Brain waves synchronize when people interact https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/ #neuroscience
Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & #AI risk (June 2023)? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kAmgdEjq2eYQkB5PP/douglas-hofstadter-changes-his-mind-on-deep-learning-and-ai
@Swede1952 It really looks like a painting
" It is hard to imagine that before Pat’s research, the PFC was widely considered a “silent” brain area that neurosurgeons could lesion with impunity (as long as they did not damage Broca’s area), and the PFC was not thought to be a proper topic for scientific research."
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhad159/7152341
Awesome sketch on the #ImagingNeuroscience editor rebellion. I seriously hope more editors will have the courage and follow suit. (Looking at you Nature journals).
Editors Quit Academic Publishing Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUGiS1LeKU
(video, 2012) Shinsuke Shimojo: Sensory Substitution, and the Third Kind of Qualia https://zkm.de/en/media/video/shinsuke-shimojo-sensory-substitution-and-the-third-kind-of-qualia
Debate: Why not scientism?
Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history.
Philosophy is dead,’ Stephen Hawking once declared, because it ‘has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.’
The response from some philosophers was to accuse Hawking of ‘scientism'
https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-not-the-only-form-of-knowledge-but-it-is-the-best
#science #epistemology @sociology @philosophy #Philosophy #scientism #scientists #philosopher
Professor of Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Research interests: cortical plasticity, cross-modal plasticity, synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, vision loss, visual cortex, auditory cortex
ORCID: 0000-0002-5554-983X