Stephan: Finally even materialist committed neuroscientists, as this report points out, are confronting the idea that consciousness is more than the brain. Their own experimental data are forcing the Ghost in the Machine into the open.
Jonathon Keats is an artist and writer. His collection of fables, 'The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six,' was published this year.
Reading the news, you might be excused for thinking that scientists are on the verge of understanding the human brain.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are diligently mapping all 100 trillion neural connections between our 86 billion neurons, and President Obama has just announced a $100 million Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative that will study all those networks in action.
The neurologist Robert Burton is skeptical, to say the least. His new book, ‘A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind,
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Robert Naiman, - truthout
Stephan: I completely support this. The last place where power still resides with ordinary people lies in the vote. Everything else in our government may increasingly be a charade of retained form underneath of which lies corrupted substance. But the vote still matters because it determines who gets to play. Any compromise in the already tattered social safety net, should result in all those who voted for the compromise being cast out of office.
Both Democrats and Republicans have expressed discontent at cutting Social Security but the option remains on the table. Robert Naiman suggests the 99% escalate their interest in the matter to have their voices heard against the 1% making the budget decisions.
The moment of truth has arrived. According to press reports, President Obama has openly embraced cutting Social Security and veterans benefits by imposing the ‘chained CPI’ cut on cost of living increases, which is like signing in blood the idea that the federal government’s priorities should be owned by the 1% rather than by the 99%. The war in Afghanistan will continue, the boondoggle F-35 ‘Bankrupter’ fighter plane will continue, the $83 billion annual taxpayer subsidy to the ‘too big to fail’ banks will continue, but the earned benefits of America’s working families, including disabled veterans and their survivors, will be cut if President Obama has his way.
The only thing that can stop President Obama from cutting Social Security now is Congress. Therefore, the only thing that can stop President Obama from cutting Social Security now is public pressure on Congress to stand up to Obama and say no. The pressure that has been exerted so far was not sufficient […]
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Stephan: For anyone who might be interested, I will be doing the nationally syndicated radio program Coast-to-Coast, for the whole evening of the 9th into the morning of the 10th. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/04/09.
-- Stephan
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SY MUKHERJEE, - Think Progress
Stephan: Once again, we have an example of the Food Becomes Commodity trend, and its deleterious effects on national wellness. Once again we see profit as the only priority, the hallmark of a world run by Virtual Corporate States.
Click through to see the chart.
In a new study published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, researchers write that a 50 percent reduction in daily salt intake ‘could prevent approximately 100,000 deaths from heart attack and stroke in the United States every year.
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Stephan: All life is interconnected and interdependent. Here is a demonstration of this truth, as shown in one of the most extraordinary, and extraordinarily beautiful, documentaries I have ever seen. Go to: http://science.time.com/2013/04/05/all-eyes-on-the-world-a-look-back-at-nasas-best-views-of-earth/
-- Stephan
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