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Dear un-scene friends,

As we may know, not everything is what coming apart at the seams, IT seems. Back in ye olde days, Information Technology was the buzzword for computing.

These days, generation Youngling is lost without a mobile station aka #brain sucker and usually with 2

Luckily I am here to heel the dawg, using my notorious lack of #skills:

- Watched this for a second time. Still #sane. Allegedly.
https://youtu.be/9KArWcMldPM?feature=shared

- I would recommend my website but who wouldn't, if they had one

- I am almost dead. Thank the #gods that don't exist that it concerns no one, Not even You, we or them :success: :agummyhug: :mastodance:

Scary:
Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an #AI Assistant for Essay #Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
"EEG revealed significant differences in #brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and #LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity
… Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

#cognitiveDecline

“I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.”

― Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

#neurology #brain #meatmachines

#satire #rfk #worm #humor #brain #noem #kristinoem #residency #alt

Borowitz Report 6/20/25

RFK Jr’s Worm Now Living in Kristi Noem’s Brain

Borowitz Report

RFK Jr's Worm Now Living in Kristi Noem'’s Brdin

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Stating that “it was time for a change of scenery,” RFK Jr.'s former worm disclosed on Friday that it had taken up residence in Kristi Noem's brain.

"When Kristi was hospitalized earlier this week, there were reports of her having an ‘allergic reaction,’” the worm said in a prepared statement. “Actually, that was just her brain reacting to me moving in.”

According to the parasitic nematode, moving from Kennedy's brain to Noem'’s required little adjustment because "l was already familiar with a brain that size.”

The worm added that it was “surprised” how easy it had been to gain access to Noem's brain, noting, “It's harder for a US senator to get into one of her press conferences.”

I love the idea of citizen neuroscience because I think it's a great way to involve the public in science and in some areas of neuroscience, it's important to go beyond the WEIRD brain.

But most people I know outside science haven't really heard about it. So I wrote an article explaining what citizen neuroscience is and giving some cool project examples.

Feel free to share. And if you know of any projects that I didn't mention, please drop them below (bonus if they're outside the Western world).

https://neurofrontiers.blog/what-is-citizen-neuroscience-and-why-does-it-matter/

#neuroscience #CitizenScience #music #eyewire #citizen #brain #science #scienceOutreach #community

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Georg #Northoff and #Philipp #Klar: "#World + #Brain = #Consciousness? - Part 2 #Philosophical #Consequences"

The 2nd part of our joint #interview with Philipp and Georg now also deals with possible #neurophilosophical #interpretations of the #empirical #findings from the 1st part and attempts to interpret them with regard to the phenomenon of “consciousness”.

Part 2 has been published under the following link: https://youtu.be/_UCLidEexJg

or at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/06/09/welt-gehirn-bewusstsein/

Thumbnail Zoomposium with Georg Northoff and Philipp Klar

As the educational impact of LLM use only begins to settle with the general population, in this study we demonstrate the pressing matter of a likely decrease in learning skills based on the results of our study. #llm #ai #intelligence #education #learning #brain https://www.brainonllm.com/

Can a drug used to treat insomnia also ward off Alzheimer’s? @ScienceAlert tells us why it's worth looking into:

https://flip.it/FIHN-c

#Science #Health #Brain #Alzheimers #Neurology

👩🏿‍🔬🌗🌐🧬🧫🧪🧲✂️🥼🔭🔬🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤯💁🏼‍♀️*Neuroscientists discover brain cells that drive intelligent behavior👉

#SCIENCE #Brain

Neuroscientists discover brain cells that drive intelligent behavior - Elcabildo https://www.elcabildo.org/en/neuroscientists-discover-brain-cells-that-drive-intelligent-behavior-49742/

Another element of the gut-brain axis: unchecked CD4 T cells that recognize certain gut bacteria can move from inflamed gut to brain and there also lead to #inflammation. #gut #microbiome #brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09120-w

"MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. […]. ChatGPT users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” […] Only 20% of the chatbot group could remember a quote from their own essay. Shown their own essay afterwards, 16% of the chatbot group denied it was theirs."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/
Mit Dank an @Rainer_Rehak #AI #chatgpt #brain

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01818-1 #AI #speech #brain

Text Shot: A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. The device conveys changes of intonation when he asks questions, emphasizes the words of his choice and allows him to hum a string of notes in three pitches.

The system — known as a brain–computer interface (BCI) — used artificial intelligence (AI) to decode the participant’s electrical brain activity as he attempted to speak. The device is the first to reproduce not only a person’s intended words but also features of natural speech such as intonation, pitch and emphasis, which help to express meaning and emotion.

In a study, a synthetic voice that mimicked the participant’s own spoke his words within 10 milliseconds of the neural activity that signalled his intention to speak.

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01818-1 #AI #speech #brain

https://www.alojapan.com/1301357/can-a-japanese-diet-help-with-depression-large-study-says-yes/ Can a Japanese diet help with depression? Large study says yes #BRAIN #covid.19 #depression #diet #disability #Epidemiology #FattyAcids #fish #GreenTea #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MediterraneanDiet #MentalHealth #news #Nutrients #nutrition #OccupationalHealth #Psychiatry #PublicHealth #research #smoking #stress #tea #vegetables #VitaminD A major study finds that workers who stick to traditional or modernized Japanese diets repo…

Association between the Japanese-style diet and low prevalence of depressive symptoms: Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study. Image Credit: rocharibeiro / Shutterstock

Can a Japanese diet help with depression? Large study says yes

A major study finds that workers who stick …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #BRAIN #covid.19 #depression #diet #disability #Epidemiology #FattyAcids #fish #greentea #Japanese #Japanesenews #mediterraneandiet #mentalhealth #news #Nutrients #nutrition #OccupationalHealth #Psychiatry #PublicHealth #research #smoking #stress #tea #vegetables #VitaminD
https://www.alojapan.com/1301357/can-a-japanese-diet-help-with-depression-large-study-says-yes/

Scientists Find Our Brains Emit a Subtle Glow ~ A new study detects ultraweak light emissions from the human brain, echoing ancient beliefs in the aura.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/faint-light-deep-roots-scientists-find-our-brains-emit-a-subtle-glow.html

#science #biology #brain #aura #energyfields #pagan #metaphysical #reiki #witchcraft