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“Connectomics is the beginning of a digital transformation of neuroscience … and this transformation will extend to brain simulation,” Seung said. “This is going to be a rapid acceleration of the way in which we do neuroscience.” — Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/02/fruit-fly-brain-connections-wiring-diagram-neuroscience

AI-powered products seem to come in different flavors. Some are big and dramatic, talking about reimagining the world and a bold new future. These solutions are exciting – and potentially frightening – but they also feel quite far away. Others are smaller and pragmatic, typically focusing on productivity. They promise to make you twice as…

I do think that it inherits the novel’s formal concerns with gender and sexuality, and does so in a way that enriches both Ulysses itself and the tradition of novel writing in which it participates. As a reader, I find the book extraordinarily moving: I care very deeply about Molly’s relationship with Bloom, Bloom’s relationship…

See, there are basically two kinds of Philosophy – one’s called prickly, the other one is called goo. Prickly people are precise, rigorous, logical – they like everything chopped up and clear. Goo people like it vague, big picture, random, imprecise, incomplete and irrational. Prickly people believe in particles, goo people believe in waves. They…

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Map of Leopold Bloom’s and Stephen Dedalus’s travels through Dublin, ca. 1948–58, Graphite and colored pencil, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations © Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC — Read…

The surface of the brain is a communication junction box at which different areas talk to each other to carry out particular processes. But there is a finite amount of space for these networks to share. Now researchers say that in people with depression, a larger part of the brain is involved in the network…

Mental resilience was measured using a scale that included looking at the qualities of perseverance, calmness, a sense of purpose, self-reliance and the recognition that certain experiences have to be faced alone. The researchers said: “Various factors, including but not limited to meaning in life, positive emotions, self-rated health and satisfaction with social support, have…