Knowledge is never a sure thing, especially when you're dealing
with the human memory.
From Proust's madeleine - sparked reminiscences on his youth to a bridge player trying to count out her opponents» hands, we're all familiar
with human memory.
Not exact matches
Implanting computing power in the brain could help
humans have near - perfect
memory, read books instantaneously and communicate
with other implanted
humans telepathically, or without speaking, explains Johnson.
«Again, I'm dreaming here and it's science - fiction and I'm not saying Intel is doing this, but eventually we're going to have good enough robots
with good enough artificial intelligence that we'll be able to implant all of a
human's
memories (in it).
Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up
with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance
memory and cognition in
humans.
As a parish priest, my grandfather would have been more accustomed to conducting funerals of the
human variety, but the
memory has stayed
with me as an example of his gentle nature and humane spirituality.
At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing
with nature, savouring
memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters
with other
human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.
But there is a tendency to exclude from Christian appreciation and appropriation experience and
memory that could enrich us and add to our ability to attain solidarity
with human beings who live
with quite different meanings.
Wiesel, for whom
memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in
human beings, and who views
memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability
with enormous understanding and sympathy.
All this has been taken into God; all this is immediately known to God; all this is treasured in the divine
memory; all this qualifies whatever we are prepared now to say about God and about the divine relationship
with the world and more especially about that relationship as it has to do
with human existence.
It is therefore possible and even probable that they experience sensations and
memory, that is to say, conscious phenomena, but surely not in the sense of
human experience which is connected
with a concept of one's own self.
Aristotle considered (prime) matter to be unintelligible andnon - being» Fourth, developments in genetic engineering will pose a challenge both ethically and metaphysically in the way man deals
with attempts to manipulate life (and change it) via cloning, hybrids, and the integration of
human (organic) and machine technology (via nano - technology); issues of conscience, soul, purpose, intelligence,
memory and morality will require the Church to articulate competently its understanding of the
human person in order to provide an ethical voice.
To begin
with, because
human beings possess highly developed faculties of reason, language, and
memory, a man's sense of what is «his» is not limited to himself, his family, or even those
with whom he regularly interacts.
It's a neat way to think about it, and also points to a collective - personality
with a
memory and an interaction that takes place between individuals, almost a meta - observation on what it means to be
human, if you will.
The new self of each moment partly includes the old experiences through
memory, although Hartshorne does not exclude as inappropriate some talk of an old self
with new experiences, provided it is clearly understood that the old self is contained within the new experiences and not the converse.4 Furthermore, he reasons that, if
human experiences were the properties of an identical ego instead of the ego's being the property of the experiences, then to know an individual ego would mean to know all its future; and, therefore, we could not really know the individual in question until his death.5
Thus one who denies a priori that there was objective ground for the resurrection faith of early Christianity denies in effect the whole Gospel portrait of Jesus, for the knowledge of the living Christ after the crucifixion is altogether continuous, of a piece,
with the
memory of the
human Jesus.
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Once, every so often in our lives, we meet rare and extraordinary people who leave indelible marks in our
memory and few who actually touch the core of our humanity
with their own
human spirit.
The higher density
memory foam is often used in mattress and pillow production, because it will soften when react
with human body heat, eventually mold our body in a few minutes.
More experiments
with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged
memories in
humans, which are more vivid than typical
memories.
If a drug could boost the transformation of short - term
memory to long - term
memory, it could help
humans absorb and retain information
with considerably less practice and commitment of time.
Scientists have long experimented
with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of
human organs, such as lungs, hearts and intestines, made from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer
memory stick.
«Sleep spindles have been associated
with memory formation in
humans for quite some time but nobody knew what they were actually doing in the brain.
Recently, it was found that the
human hippocampus, linked
with learning and
memory, produces new neurons throughout life.
«If we can provide the brain
with speedy access to unlimited
memory, unlimited calculation ability, and instant wireless communication ability, we will produce a
human with unsurpassable intelligence.
Recently, Prof. Yoko Yazaki - Sugiyama and Dr. Shin Yanagihara from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have, for the first time, identified the neurons in the brain that are associated
with the auditory
memory of the father's song in zebra finches, which could lead to insight into
human speech development.
A postmortem analysis of
human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved
with language processing, comprehension, and
memory.
They found that, within the first three days of injury, fish in the concussion group were slower to find a school of fish
with which they previously swam, a measure of spatial
memory which is impaired in other animal models of concussion and
human patients.
Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help
with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the
human brain.
The findings were published online today in the journal Immunity in a paper entitled, «
Human circulating PD - 1 + CXCR3 - CXCR5 +
memory Tfh cells are highly functional and correlate
with broadly neutralizing HIV antibody responses.»
After a concussion, a person can be left
with disturbed sleep,
memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome
memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in
Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.
The limbic system is the collective name for structures in the
human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association
with memory.
The study shows that great apes, like
humans, can store and retrieve precise information in their long - term
memories, and anticipate impending events, a cognitive skill that likely helps them deal
with social intrigue and avoid danger.
More insightful and self - reflective than modern
humans,
with fantastic
memories and a penchant for dreaming, the Boskops may have had «an internal mental life literally beyond anything we can imagine.»
The Blue Brain and
Human Brain Project will take a new step
with a Blue Gene / Q augmented by 128 terabytes of flash
memory at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland.
«Forgetting is built into the
human brain, so we may be producing more
memories than we can cope
with»
The strategy used by infants should not be seen as a limitation for lexical learning, but rather as a feature of
human memory that interacts
with language learning mechanisms.
He noted that the young chimps»
memory ability could be likened to «eidetic imagery» (photographic
memory), a special ability to retain a detailed and accurate image of a complex scene or pattern found in some
human children, but which, alas, fades
with age.
But as Lemonick notes, experiments
with Johnson are revealing that some of «those distinctions may have been too crude to capture the subtleties of
human memory.»
The
human forebrain is crucial for planning and action, which are closely interwoven
with concentration, attention and
memory functions.
A team of researchers has built a mathematical model that describes the molecular events associated
with the beginning stage of learning and
memory formation in the
human brain.
Reprinted from Borges and
Memory: Encounters
with the
Human Brain, by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.
Brain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for
memory and visually processing
human faces in people
with MCI are structurally and functionally transformed.
With the best intentions in the world, we have kept his
memory alive, editing and embellishing his reputation into a
human analog of his own theory.
Second, it occurs in the hippocampus, which is a neural structure strongly associated
with memory in
humans.
In a key
memory experiment in the study, mice brains were injected
with beta - amyloid, whose increase is one hallmark of Alzheimer's in
humans.
Humans, to be
human, don't need to have evolved unique genes that code for entirely novel types of neurons or neurotransmitters, or a more complex hippocampus (
with resulting improvements in
memory), or a more complex frontal cortex (from which we gain the ability to postpone gratification).
These findings about lymph node imprinting apply to
humans as well: An inadequate supply of vitamin A after birth or meddling
with the baby's developing microflora through administration of antibiotics can interfere
with the lymph nodes» long - term
memory.
Studying the images of a baby gearing up for a breastfeed, I found myself hit
with a flood of
memories: the smell of
human milk, the physical sensation of feeding a baby and the emotions it provokes.
If such a prion - induced chain reaction also occurs
with the CPEB in the
human brain, the scientists speculate, it could provide an unusually durable foundation for storing
memories.