Research findings from four disciplines of neuroscience (neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, behavioral sciences, and cell biology) are moving us toward a conceptualization of morality that emphasized our instersubjectivity. As we come to a greater understanding of how our interpersonal interactions affect our biology and psychology, these research findings suggest that our understanding of morality must be based in our intersubjective behaviors. This supports some spiritual wisdom and challenges others.

Tenured in Japan

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 16, 2009, 04:25 PM

This posting from Japan comes somewhere in the middle of a night (jetlag rules!) in Osaka, before moving to Tokyo where I will be conducting several interviews for The Rewired Brain:  The Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age, the book I'm finishing on cognition and digitality and that Viking Press will publish in either late 2010 or early 2011. 

 

Mind, Brain, and Digitality

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 18, 2008, 02:09 AM
When I lectutred last week in Italy on digital youth, someone asked me how I made the connection between digitality and neuroscience. That's an easy question and an extremely difficult one and the path from one to the other is: learning.

Laughing on the Back Channel

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 11, 2008, 04:01 PM
Joking on the backchannel. Fun, yes. But what does it do to the front channel . . . (not to mention the nucleus accumbens) . . . ?
Laurel & Hardy

The Mind/Brain Concept

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 17, 2007, 04:56 PM
How do we know what we know? How do we know when we know it--or when we are merely generalizing to some theory on the basis of an experiment that may or may not lead exclusively to that theory? It's not an easy call.

Interface Seminar: Neuroartist Extraordinaire

Submitted by hhalpin on Feb 04, 2007, 03:05 PM
Bill Seaman is the head of Digital Media at RISD, and luckily he's coming over at the invitation of Kristine Stiles to speak to the Interface Seminar. Seaman's main interests lie along the intersection of digital media, electrochemical computing, and artificial intelligence: an eclectic and productive combination.

Interface Seminar: Neuroscience and Art

Submitted by hhalpin on Feb 03, 2007, 08:40 PM
If one were to jumble all the disciplines of a modern University up in some giant hat, and just choose two out at random, one fairly seemingly random duo would be Art and Neuroscience. Yet, there are surprisingly strong connections, as the collection "The Artful Minds" - connections that may very well lead us to the heart of symbolic thought itself.