Author Archives: James Cross

Decisions, Decisions

A new paper in Cell measures theta waves in the hippocampus of rats navigating a maze with multiple spatial paths. They found a decision-making process seemed to be involved consistently with theta wave patterns. The paper itself requires a subscription … Continue reading

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The Unsolved Puzzle

This is short review of the The Unsolved Puzzle by Jonathan Kerr. After more than a 100 years of quantum mechanics, there remains a debate of how to interpret it. Nobody disagrees that the mathematics describing experimental behavior are correct, … Continue reading

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Hard[ly a] Problem

As I browse about the web, I constantly run into the infamous “hard” problem of consciousness of Chalmers in one form or another. Sometimes the problem comes from an unexpected source – people who are materialists who actually think they … Continue reading

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