In the celebration for the Lunar New Year at Monterey Park, CA just less than 10 miles east of Los Angeles, a mass shooting occurred inside a ballroom dance studio, killing 10 and injuring at least 10 others, with some stable and others critical, according to reports. The crime has…

There is a recent article, The lunacy of ‘machine consciousness’ explaining why it is probably impossible to ever have machines become conscious. There is a rebuttal, ‘Machine consciousness’ is not lunacy listing hindrances towards achieving it. A paragraph in the response stated, “We do not understand the neural basis of…

There is recent article in Scientific American Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too explaining the term and details like readiness potential or build up of neural activity before things get done. Free will in action, as explained by the article has to do with the mind…

A massive 379 million deadly doses of Fentanyl were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] this year. There was a record number of overdose deaths in the US. Life expectancy dipped to new lows in decades, in part due to drug overdose deaths. The DEA and the National Institute…

How the brain gives the experience of loneliness is a determinative mechanism of immense value in the solitude that the frigid winter storm makes necessary. Loneliness does not often happen when alone. Loneliness can also occur when an individual is with others. …

There is a recent article in WIRED, Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible, discussing the limits of recent large language models [LLMs] to actual consciousness. There is another article, Consciousness may not require a brain excerpted from a book, CONSCIOUS, discussing how plants may also be conscious. Debates about consciousness…

There is a lot that can be learned from areas with lesions from a brain donated to science, for research. There are structural changes in the brain, whose exploration can lead to new understanding of what happened from a condition. There are diverse structural states in the brain that affects…

Why do people take cocaine and other illegal drugs? The common answer is reward or pleasure. The feel good is different, the state seems better, making it wanted, until it becomes addictive. …

There is a recent story in The Globe and Mail, Canada will soon allow medically assisted dying for mental illness. Has there been enough time to get it right? detailing the new policy of medical assistance in dying for mental illness to commence, mid-March next year. This policy, already in…