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Team Trump knows there will be an assassination attempt, the approximate caliber that will be used, and the approximate line of fire, but not who will be the shooter, nor the exact date. They know that after certain events occur, an assassination will be ordered.
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Breakthrough in Fly Brain Research Paves Way for Understanding Human Cognition
Scientists have achieved a monumental breakthrough by mapping the fly brain, revealing the position, shape, and connections of all its 130,000 cells and 50 million intricate connections. This research represents the most detailed analysis of an adult animal's brain to date and is being hailed as a "huge leap" in understanding human cognition.
The fly's brain, though tiny, supports a range of complex behaviors, including walking, hovering, and even producing mating songs. Dr. Gregory Jefferis, a leader in the research from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, emphasizes that this mapping could illuminate the mechanisms behind thought processes in humans. He noted the lack of understanding about how brain cell networks facilitate our interactions with the world.
Despite humans having a million times more neurons than the fruit fly, the new wiring diagram, or connectome, will aid scientists in deciphering cognitive functions. Published in the journal Nature, the imagery showcases a stunningly complex structure that reveals how a small organ can perform powerful computational tasks.
Dr. Mala Murthy, co-leader of the project from Princeton University, stated that this connectome will be transformative for neuroscientists, allowing for a better understanding of healthy brain function and the potential to compare it with malfunctioning brains.
Dr. Lucia Prieto Godino from the Francis Crick Institute supports this view, highlighting that while simpler organisms like worms and maggots have had their connectomes mapped, the fly’s intricate wiring is a significant achievement. This success paves the way for mapping larger brains, potentially leading to a human connectome in the future.
The research team has successfully identified separate circuits for various functions, illustrating how movement-related circuits are positioned at the base of the brain, while those responsible for vision are located on the sides. The study not only identifies these circuits but also explains their connections, enhancing our understanding of neural processing.
Interestingly, researchers are already applying these circuit diagrams to understand why flies are so hard to catch. The wiring related to vision quickly processes incoming threats, sending signals to the fly's legs to jump away faster than conscious thought.
To create the wiring diagram, researchers used a technique involving slicing the fly brain into 7,000 incredibly thin pieces, photographing each slice, and digitally reconstructing the whole. They employed artificial intelligence to analyze neuron shapes and connections, correcting over three million errors manually.
Dr. Philipp Schlegel from the Medical Research Council highlights that this data serves as a comprehensive map of brain connectivity, akin to a detailed Google Maps for the neural networks. This combined information will facilitate countless discoveries in neuroscience in the coming years.
While a human connectome remains elusive due to the complexity of the human brain, researchers believe that advancements in technology may allow for such mapping in about three decades. The fly brain research marks a significant step toward unlocking the mysteries of human cognition and understanding our own minds better.
The study was conducted by the FlyWire Consortium, an international collaboration of scientists dedicated to advancing neuroscience.
#fly brain#neuroscience#connectome#research breakthrough#cognition#insect brain mapping#neural networks#scientific discovery#MRC#fly brain study
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Hmmmmm all this cc Babcock content has reawakened way too many feelings about [REDACTED] and brother I am beating them back with a stick
#like a reminder of oh yeah there is someone in my life that makes me feel the way people feel when they fall in love in fanfic#but she’s straight so I have to just constantly overwrite that to be normal#and it’s been fine I’ve been fine#did a little cognitive behavioral therapy over it kind of fine like legitimately can cope with the emotion now#but something about CC’s particular brand of repression and self loathing is a little too specifically relatable to me#especially in all the Fran x cc I just tore through#so now I need to just kind of sit with these feelings for another night I guess#by the morning it will ache less it always does#it’s times like these that I remember I actually process feelings very poorly without fictional narratives to map my own experiences onto#and then it’s suddenly really easy to understand why I feel the way I do#is this an autism thing?
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Landscape, asperity/kinship/collage/photogram by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ The Unfolded Garment Embracing Subjectivity Pierced Assemblage on Photogram What is Philosophy? Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari Their book is a profound and careful interrogation of what it might mean to be a 'friend of wisdom', but it is also a devastating attack on the sterility of what has become, when 'the only events are exhibitions and the only concepts are products which can be sold'. Philosophy, they insist, is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but the creation of concepts www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0860916863/ref=pe_2724401_140...
#landscape#field#documents#recordings#texture#Russell Moreton#visual art#philosophy#Deleuze#Gauttari#collage#concept#mapping#asperity#subjectivity#materials#creative#body#form#fashion#corset#muse#otherness#textures#colour#moods#poetics#sensation#architectural#cognitive
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#iwtv is so much more fun if you're willing to actually dissect the story and characters and their world in good faith#which also means applying faults to characters as they are actually seen and not exaggerated or diminished simply by a bias#But when there is nothing actually definitive (only assumption to confirm) you can't actually say who's doing what w/o some bias involved#and yes a lot of times thats entirely going to be the right assumption because we can definitely infer#But there's a realm to where you do have to consider all possibilities are possible if they are left unanswered#you can place inferences but you can't claim them as definitive if they are just inferences#and other people are just going to have different inferences even bias. But this shouldn't mess with what's definitive about it.#basically taking a good faith journalism stance on it so your not falling into possible problematic biases#there are also functions of vampirism and how it works in this context which do not mirror our world 1 to 1#for instance whereas humans have to live in direct contact with society and its various problems bias and ideologies vampires live on the#outskirts of this. Only ever coming into contact by influencing onto that world by their outside actions or appearances#the human world serves nothing for them except as threat or supply for wants or needs. There's no real connection there.#When mapping vampiric existence onto human existence it can a lot of times lead to problems in trying to bridge this cognitive dissonance.#You can not be in community with humanity when you are by nature a being opposed to it. Which is contentious when you want to be part still#They can be effected by this and effect onto it yes but they are not actually a part of it and never will be.#I'd say if you effect onto humanity positively it's better to have it for the enjoyment of it alone as opposed to seeking human connection#as any criticisms of this connection your trying to seek is essentially denial your own sought humanity as opposed to the object of doing#and this would always be a lost cause#but i think I digress here#there are also cultural beliefs and practices of vampires that are not found in our world such as laws and covens and ideologies#a lot of which are quite actually opposed to normal human understandings of rightness and morality#they culturally are more open to accepting those who are viewed as less than or moral because this is a reflection of themselves#And we can and should certainly point to all of this stuff for what it is I feel
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The many senses of run
How do you define the word run? You probably think of something like ‘fast pedestrian motion’, but what about the use of run in these examples? There are three boats that run from the mainland to the Island On my way to the elevator, I ran into Pete the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on The tears ran down my face Colors on the towels…
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#cognitive linguistics#corpus linguistics#historical linguistics#language change#prototype theory#prototypes#semantic maps#semantics
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therapy was “helpful” and I “liked it” and sigh I’ll “keep going”
#I like my therapist a lot#the one point where we disagreed today is she feels it’s probably not ideal to read every single book available on a topic#so as to be able to make informed decisions#I was like ok MAYBE it’s a way of exerting control but ALSO I can just have a scholarly interest in mapping the critical landscape ok#it’s fine no one agrees with me on this point lol liz is always like not another rabbithole#but idk I am always trying to explain that like#having more information actually makes me feel more free to do whatever#because instead of having one fixed idea about the ‘right’ way to do something#I can explore/evaluate a ton of different ways of doing something#and see that they all basically lead to the same decent outcomes even if by different routes#and so then I can be like well I’ll just do what feels best/works best for me and not worry so much about if it’s the ‘right’ way#I feel like maybe it’s an anxiety behavior but the outcome is significantly less anxiety over day to day decisions#🤷♀️#however maybe this is one of my ‘cognitive distortions’ lol#I did start getting really panicked at the thought of being told I couldn’t research stuff lol
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Guys. You know it's okay for multiple things to share an abbreviation. Right? Or to have the same acronym. Nobody is "stealing" anything. There are only so many words and letters in the alphabet. It's okay to have overlap and figure out which thing is meant in the moment by context clues. It's okay.
#personal#poly is short for about five different things#nb can be nonbinary or nonblack#cbt is cognitive behavioral therapy or. the other thing#fandoms refused to stop using map for multi animator project just bc creeps started using it for something different#cash registers are often called pos for point of service. even tho pos also means piece of shit#i use lds for star trek lower decks and got chided bc it's already used by the mormon church. my dude. my dude. pls
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ok this has always been a question in the back of my mind regarding autonomy - "what if someone needs help and wants it, but for any reason, never explicitally communicates they want it?" or "what if someone is in a mindset where they dont want help, but after/before they always want help/wish someone would help?"
because ive seen posts like "even if someone is in critical state, unless they explicitly state they want help, then you shouldnt interfere", something along the lines of that.
its affecting how i approach others, especially those who arent doing well mentally (and even myself)... because sometimes, we DONT know what we want, or whats best for ourselves. I can attest to that. I dont know what i need or what i want a lot until i gravely mess up or i miss out etc. Sometimes I say yes when i mean no, and no when i mean yes. Sometimes i reject help both when i actually want it, and when i feel as if i dont need it if I'm not well (psychosis, ocd etc...)
The thing everyone says about "you know yourself best always" and "never intervene on others actions even if theyre not okay if they reject outside help." it... assumes everyone is in a state to know themselves well. amnesia comes to mind, or any cognitive condition where someone will struggle to know what they want/need, or how they feel, and how to communicate such.
Maybe im overthinking and nobody has ever said ppl cant intervene in special cases.. but ive never seen anyone explicitly say they can, either.. so idk what people think about it.
We're all here to overthink, so that's a good thing. I think there are a few issues to overthink here. First of all, what is "help"? I mean this in both a specific and an abstract way. Specifically, what are you considering doing for someone that they haven't asked for and you think they need? Is it something where if you're wrong and they really don't want it, it's no big deal (like giving someone a coffeepot they have no real use for but accept to be polite), or is it something where if you're wrong and they really don't want it, you're severely harming them by imposing something on them against their will (like forced drugging, which is what most policy advocates mean by "getting someone help")? And more abstractly, how can you be sure that what you want to do for someone is actually helpful? The premise of "You know yourself best always" doesn't mean "You know yourself perfectly always." No one has complete self-knowledge. It is absolutely possible for you to be wrong about what's best for you. It's absolutely possible for you to make a decision and regret it -- maybe immediately, maybe years later. And to think "Why did I make such a bad decision? What was I thinking? Why didn't someone stop me?" But you still know yourself best always, not because you know what's best always or never make bad decisions (that's not true of anyone, and is an unreasonable standard!) but because you know yourself better than anyone else can, because no one else can have the lived experience of being you and knowing how you feel and what you need. Or put another way: However bad, unwise, or regrettable your decisions about your own body/mind/life are, anyone else's would inherently be worse. So moving on to the specific: What if someone needs help in a way that they can't communicate due to awareness/communication related disabilities? This definitely happens to me! For example, I have a real problem remembering to eat and remembering that I'm hungry. It's helpful for me when someone reminds me that I haven't had lunch yet, and that's probably why I'm spacy. For yourself, if you know you're prone to bouts of poor bodily awareness, try to ask for help in advance. If you have a willing friend or partner, you can ask them in advance "If I get spaced out, please remind me to eat/ drink/ take medicine/ go outside." For more complicated things, you can look into some of the advance plans and templates suggested by the Fireweed Collective: https://fireweedcollective.org/crisis-toolkit For trying to help other people who haven't asked for it -- or rather, trying to intervene in a way that you think is helpful even though they haven't asked for it -- I would recommend some broad guidelines.
Ask first, and be willing to take "no" for an answer. If someone says no, but seems really disoriented, you might try asking again later, but still be willing to accept a no.
Offer basic things: Food, water, and the opportunity to leave the environment. If the person only eats certain foods, bring them that food. You may need to physically bring it to them if they are too disoriented to get it themselves or even answer whether they want it.
IF you know that they take a medication regularly, and you think it's possible that their disorientation could be caused by a missed dose, offer to bring them their medicine. Do NOT try to get them to start a medical regimen if they're not already on them. DO NOT encourage them to take medication if you know, or have reason to believe, that they're foregoing medication as an intentional choice rather than simply forgetting a dose.
If possible, try to reduce environmental stressors like noise. Turn down music, fans, flashing lights.
If the person is communicating in a way you don't understand, listen respectfully. Don't bombard them with questions. If you don't understand, say so. You can always come back to the topic later.
Offer alternate ways to communicate. If someone isn't speaking well, try typing or another form of AAC.
Be humble. They may not appreciate your offers, nor do they have any obligation to. They might be annoyed or angry by your offers (especially if they've already said "no"), and they have every right to be. Accept this fact going in.
These are some general suggestions for trying to help someone who has not specifically requested your help, but you have reason to believe may be disoriented or otherwise unable to communicate their wants/needs, while still respecting their bodily autonomy. It's not foolproof, but it might be a start.
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How are neural representations of conceptual information structured such that people may deduce relationships they have never seen or classify fresh examples? It has been argued that a viable format for encoding physical space during navigation is a representation that resembles a map. Previous research showed distance mapping in a feature space that was significant for concept learning as well as directional coding during navigation across a continuous stimulus feature space. In contrast to a broad feature-based environment, Stephanie Theves et al. present the first evidence in their study for a hippocampus representation of a conceptual space.
We provide the first unambiguous evidence for a hippocampal representation of the actual concept space, by showing that the hippocampal distance signal selectively reflects the mapping of specifically conceptually relevant rather than of all feature dimensions.
The researchers displayed common items that have previously been linked with particular values on three continuous feature dimensions while fMRI scanning 32 human subjects (21 females). Importantly, prior concept learning was only important across two dimensions. In contrast to distances in a space defined along all feature dimensions, they discovered that hippocampus responses to the objects reflect their relative distances in a space defined along cognitively significant dimensions. According to these results, the hippocampus aids in the acquisition of knowledge by dynamically storing data in a space that is spanned along dimensions that are important for defining ideas.
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Does Having ADHD Make You More Creative?
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ok so i know in the trigun manga, vash's hair turning black signifies him using up his powers (and is in general bad for him?? what ive picked up from fanfic at least). a part of me is like "MAN he's got like half black hair at the start of trimax, that's so EARLY to be that much gone!" but then i remembered he literally blew a giant crater in the fucking moon so maybe it's not That weird actually
#speculation nation#trigun spoilers/#im only on chapter 4 of trimax actually i have a long way to go#i have not had a very good mental state for reading manga. so fanfic it is.#considering how seriously tristamp is played overall there's a bit of cognitive dissonance there#im like 'oh yeah The Themes. The Drama. The Gay.' and then i remember vash blows a hole in the moon#literally. Literally. blows a fucking hole in the moon. vash did that. literally whaddahell#to be fair he did that angel arm thing in tristamp. seeing it show up again in the manga was a big :O moment#and. Also having some pretty disastrous results.#why didnt they give us vash blowing a hole in the moon in tristamp. he redirects the beam out to the sky in the same way#blows the town UP with the surrounding shocks in the same way#if we dont get another town wiped off the map in tristamp season 2 AND a hole in the moon then WHAT is the point!!!!!
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i didn't wanna derail too much lol
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Gotta admit the headline is a banger.
#but i *did* spend a stupid amount of time on google maps and whatnot trying to figure this out so i'm a bit glad someone noticed lol#i've lived in urban areas all my life but when i was a kid the public library was NOT within walking distance my parents would take us#ofc that wasn't a problem for my family specifically; iirc it was like a Thing for us we loved going to the library#and the public transport was and is pretty solid in that area so once i was old enough i could've just taken the bus (idk if i ever did tho#but i'm also aware that i grew up significantly more well-off than a lot of people so like if that was my experience...#well i guess just take what i know and add on various difficulties that other people face that i didn't#this isn't to say that i'm not intimately familiar with assuming parts of your life are universal and shoving your own foot so far in your#mouth that you end up digesting the damn thing bc i *very* much am#but i think suffering the agonizing embarrassment of ''oh this experience of mine is very much not universal'' helps you if you let it#like i am NOT an empathic person by nature; i have that low (affective) empathy type autism#but the feeling of ''i just made everyone in this room less privileged than me strictly aware of that'' has done a lot of legwork#you CAN build compassion and (cognitive) empathy by embarrassing yourself it just fucking sucks to do it and feels cringe#sorry for rambling again op XD
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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
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Organizing Knowledge: My Mental Map for Learning
I usually do not spend much time chatting about pointless or purposeless topics, both because of my nature and because of the Buddhist precept of abstaining from idle chatter. Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com Also, I notice that when I speak in a social gathering and the topic involves knowledge and learning, people find my style quite different from theirs, if not somewhat…
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🧠 Ready to Think Smarter? Master These 7 Critical Thinking Exercises!
Saarthi For Success 🔍 A Step-by-Step Guide to Sharpen Your Critical Thinking SkillsCritical thinking is like a muscle—the more you use it, the sharper it gets! 🧠 Here’s a practical roadmap to boost your ability to evaluate arguments, spot logical flaws, and make better decisions.🛠️ Step 1: What is Critical Thinking?Ever tried defining it yourself?Exercise: Write your own definition.Identify…
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