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		<title>Brain2Robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, we&#8217;ve known, through the work of Benjamin Libet and others, that neuronal activity to initiate neuromuscular activity precedes conscious thought. Now scientists are attempting to harness those brain signals and put them to work. In the Brain2Robot project, an international team of researchers has developed a robot control system that works on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for God in the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith. In Scientific American: Searching for God in the Brain, David Biello, writes about scanning 14 Carmelite nuns to see what prayer looks like on a functional MRI brain scan. Such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery of Consciousness &#8211; Steven Pinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker, writing for TIME: &#8220;The biology of consciousness offers a sounder basis for morality than the unprovable dogma of an immortal soul. It&#8217;s not just that an understanding of the physiology of consciousness will reduce human suffering through new treatments for pain and depression. That understanding can also force us to recognize the interests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Overbye has an excellent summary of the mind-versus-matter debate in the first NYT Science Times of the new year. If people freak at evolution, how much more will they freak if scientists and philosophers tell them they are nothing more than sophisticated meat machines, and is that conclusion now clearly warranted or is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[European researchers have developed &#8220;neuro-chips&#8221; in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together. According to author, Ker Than, in an article published in Live Science, &#8220;The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ian McEwan&#8217;s Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2006/03/20/ian-mcewans-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian McEwan&#8217;s Saturday This novel examines one day in the life of Henry Perowne, a prominent and successful London neurosurgeon. While driving his new Mercedes, Perowne collides with Baxter, a street thug and victim of Huntington&#8217;s chorea, whose condition makes him dangerously unpredictable: violent and sensitive by turns. Perowne can&#8217;t help diagnosing Baxter, even while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want An Electrode In Your Brain?</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2006/02/15/want-an-electrode-in-your-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent the last twenty years studying how neurons encode information and how they use it to make decisions about the world. But Newsome is obsessed with a lingering question: How does consciousness arise from brain function? He feels the best way to answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Neuroscience of Lie Detection</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2006/02/06/the-neuroscience-of-lie-detection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neuroscience and brain imaging continue to appear almost daily in the mainstream press. Lately, the focus is on lie detection and other forensic applications for functional brain imaging. See, for example, Don&#8217;t Even Think About Lying in the January 2006 issue of Wired Magazine and Looking For The Lie in the New York Times Magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/1998/05/09/brain-storm-a-novel-by-richard-dooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 1998 16:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Novel by Richard Dooling Read Chapter One of Brain Storm New York Times Notable Book of 1998 Amazon Hot 100 Bestseller Review Excerpts &#8220;Dooling&#8217;s new book is a brilliant concoction, flashing with comedic and intellectual energy . . . . an inspired piece of work, a caustically funny, antic diatribe with a tightly woven [...]]]></description>
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