Comments on: Jonah Lehrer: Brain Science for the Rest of Us http://www.radioopensource.org/jonah-lehrer-brain-science-for-the-rest-of-us/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:23:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: T. Diddy http://www.radioopensource.org/jonah-lehrer-brain-science-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-162806 T. Diddy Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:42:33 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2295#comment-162806 A fascinating and enjoyable conversation that I will have to listen to at least once more to fully appreciate. It seems that trying to understand the human mind by examinig neurons synapses and axons is as difficult as enjoying a digital image by looking at it pixal by pixal, but , as you do, you can come to better understand the product of their intergrated functions. As I have a personal motive to understand brain function, I can hardly wait to read his books. What a great interview. A fascinating and enjoyable conversation that I will have to listen to at least once more to fully appreciate.
It seems that trying to understand the human mind by examinig neurons synapses and axons is as difficult as enjoying a digital image by looking at it pixal by pixal, but , as you do, you can come to better understand the product of their intergrated functions.
As I have a personal motive to understand brain function, I can hardly wait to read his books.
What a great interview.

]]> By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/jonah-lehrer-brain-science-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-162803 nother Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:43:07 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2295#comment-162803 I find this new genre of practical neuroscience – and this conversation - to be very interesting and I look forward to the road ahead. I have a feeling though, as we travel further down into this dark mine of the mind and light our matches, what will ultimately be reveled to us - through the flickering flame - are but shadows on the wall of our brains. I prefer to confer with old man Socrates outside in the reason-able light of day, and defer to his admonition that we should follow the “noble” and “good” virtue of Temperance. We can save some energy by going back to the future. For instance in this conversation we talked a lot about free-will, and self-critique, and human avarice, ext. All of this can fall under the Plato’s umbrella of temperance. Self-control is the thing. “A temperate state is a well ordered state.” -Plato’s “Charmides” “Whereas true love is a love of beauty and order – temperate and harmonious.” -Plato’s “The Republic” In our temperate state, things will be simplified, including our decision making. I find this new genre of practical neuroscience – and this conversation – to be very interesting and I look forward to the road ahead. I have a feeling though, as we travel further down into this dark mine of the mind and light our matches, what will ultimately be reveled to us – through the flickering flame – are but shadows on the wall of our brains.

I prefer to confer with old man Socrates outside in the reason-able light of day, and defer to his admonition that we should follow the “noble” and “good” virtue of Temperance.

We can save some energy by going back to the future. For instance in this conversation we talked a lot about free-will, and self-critique, and human avarice, ext. All of this can fall under the Plato’s umbrella of temperance. Self-control is the thing.

“A temperate state is a well ordered state.”
-Plato’s “Charmides”

“Whereas true love is a love of beauty and order – temperate and harmonious.”
-Plato’s “The Republic”

In our temperate state, things will be simplified, including our decision making.

]]> By: orangescissor http://www.radioopensource.org/jonah-lehrer-brain-science-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-162802 orangescissor Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:37:32 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2295#comment-162802 Sounds a lot like the opening lines of Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morality': "We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, we ourselves, to ourselves...we are not 'knowers' when it comes to ourselves..." seems especially true today, after spending the last 8 years listening to experts separate good guys from bad guys, still lost in a 'global war on terror' against a condition of insecurity (we are unknown to ourselves). Sounds a lot like the opening lines of Nietzsche’s ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’: “We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, we ourselves, to ourselves…we are not ‘knowers’ when it comes to ourselves…” seems especially true today, after spending the last 8 years listening to experts separate good guys from bad guys, still lost in a ‘global war on terror’ against a condition of insecurity (we are unknown to ourselves).

]]> By: mattheww http://www.radioopensource.org/jonah-lehrer-brain-science-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-162799 mattheww Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:29:56 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2295#comment-162799 Fantastic conversation. Fantastic conversation.

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