New article on Inoreader

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9StMQ79LtEvlrskzjoYbQMike Merzenich - What Makes Brains Conscious? -

Everything we know, think and feel—everything!—comes from our brains. But consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, remains a mystery. Brain activities—spiking of neuronal impulses, sloshing of neurochemicals—are not at all the same thing as sights, sounds, smells, emotions. How on earth can our inner experiences be explained in physical terms?

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Michael M. Merzenich is a Professor Emeritus Neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques.

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