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<h3 class="color-in-selected-button" align="center"><small><small><b><big><big>Brain-Mind
Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=Cover-V2-N2.pdf#view">Front
Cover</a> 0 <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a1-HowBrainMind-a.pdf#view">How
the Brain-Mind Works: A Two-Page
Introduction to a Theory</a><img
src="cid:part3.07020701.04000705@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
1 - 3<br>
by <em>Juyang Weng </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>Neuroscience has
made impressive advances, but there is a
lack of an overall computational brain
theory. I would like to present a simplified
computational theory in an intuitive
language about how the brain wires itself as
a multi-interchange bridge that
bi-directionally connects many islands where
each island is a sensor or effector. The
wiring process of the brain is highly
self-supervised while a baby manipulates an
object, e.g., sucking a milk bottle. I also
explain how the self-wired basic circuits
become motivated through four additional
neural transmitters beyond glutamate and
GABA --- serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine,
and norepinephrine. A layman or a researcher
in another discipline can get a gist of the
theory for the brain-mind by reading this
two-page short introduction. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Brain, mind,
neuroscience, cognitive science, computer
science, electrical engineering,
mathematics, physics, biology, philosophy,
vision, motivation, intelligence <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a2-Gu-a.pdf#view">The
EU Human Brain Project Is Unlikely to
Create an Artificial Whole-Brain in a
Decade</a><img
src="cid:part5.02000105.00000004@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
4 - 6<br>
by <em>Fan-ji Gu </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>The European
Union (EU) Human Brain Project (HBP) has a
core target --- simulation of the human
brain in a decade. I argue in this paper
that this target is unlikely to be realized
in a decade, at least in terms of major
known brain functions because the EU HBP
researchers lack an overall brain theory.
Simulating a kludge is a fatal
underestimation of the overall principles of
the biological human brain. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Human brain
project, Blue Brain Project, whole-brain
model, artificial brain <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a3-AAUP-a.pdf#view">AAUP
Addresses Academic Freedom and Due Process
Concerns at MSU</a><img
src="cid:part7.05030000.05060704@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
7 - 7<br>
by <em>Gregory F. Scholtz </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>On September 5,
2013, the administration of Michigan State
University (MSU) removed Professor William
Penn from his teaching responsibilities
after a portion of his lecture was
surreptitiously recorded and posted on a
conservative website. In response to an
inquiry about this action from the editors
of Brain-Mind Magazine, the American
Association of University Professors (AAUP)
wrote to express concerns about possible
departures from widely adopted
AAUP-supported principles and standards of
academic freedom and due process. The letter
cited the relevant AAUP documents whose
links are provided. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Checks and
balances of power, academic freedom, freedom
of speech, due process <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a4-Kuykendall-a.pdf#view">Trial
by YouTube</a><img
src="cid:part9.00060409.06050700@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
8 - 10<br>
by <em>Mae Kuykendall </em>and<em> Debra
Nails </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>Media campaigns
against professors exercising their academic
freedom to teach are being addressed in
eerily similar ways. At Michigan State
University in the first week of September
2013, and at the University of Kansas two
weeks later, tenured professors were
suspended from their teaching duties by
administrative action without due process.
Although suspension has long been regarded
as a disciplinary measure short of
dismissal, in the new atmosphere of social
media blitzkrieg, the action is represented
as a rescue operation to protect the
teaching professor from cameras, clamor, and
death threats. At the same time, some
administrators suggest that the professors
who have offended the sensibilities of some
of their students may have poisoned the
learning environment. The authors review and
defend academic freedom in the new climate.
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<strong>Index terms: </strong>Academic
freedom, social media, due process <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a5-Masfis-a.pdf#view">How
MSU Lacks Due Process: A Bylaw Perspective</a><img
src="cid:part11.06060104.08090303@cse.msu.edu" alt="banner"
style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0 0;"
height="100" width="100"> 11
- 12<br>
by <em>Christopher S. Masfis </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>Michigan State
University (MSU) removed Professor William
Penn from a course that he taught because of
what he said in the course. MSU possibly
also applied other punishments which, if
there are any, are confidential per MSU
regulations. The American Association of
University Professors (AAUP) raised its
concerns over the lack of due process at
MSU. The discussion of the MSU regulations
here indicates that Professor Penn case was
due to deeper problems. I use the AAUP
recommended procedure standards and the
corresponding bylaws and regulations at an
MSU's sister university --- University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor (UofM) --- as
comparative references. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Science of
governing, checks and balances of power, due
process, freedom of speech <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a6-Obama4-Bursts-a.pdf#view">The
4th Open Letter to the U.S. President
Obama: Safeguard U.S. against Instinct
Bursts</a><img
src="cid:part13.01080304.02060500@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
13 - 15<br>
by <em>Juyang Weng </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>The U.S. luckily
skipped a military strike on Syria, but its
government is now partially shutdown. Due to
a lack of experience and knowledge, every
individual brain is prone to bursts of
instinctive passions. In the governments,
such bursts resulted in international wars
and domestic sufferings. In the short run,
every legislator, including Mr. Obama,
should resume budget negotiations without
any precondition because the founding
fathers of this nation expected all in the
government to talk and compromise. In the
long run, the U.S. government should
systematically adopt brain-like
computational developmental mechanisms into
laws to safeguard the U.S. from gradual
buildup of tensions that inevitably will
lead to downfalls, from wars to
sequestrations, triggered by small events
like an armed clash or the failure of a
last-minute deal. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Science of
brain and mind, U.S. interest, foreign
policies, domestic policies <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a7-Xie-a.pdf#view">Building
Civilized Societies with Better Cultures</a><img
src="cid:part15.04060901.07080909@cse.msu.edu" alt="banner"
style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0 0;"
height="100" width="100"> 16
- 17<br>
by <em>Ming Xie </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>In this paper, I
put forward the concept of culture space,
and highlight its three principal axes for
referencing values which are the ultimate
causes behind all social and individual
activities as well as behaviors. And, these
three references for gauging values are:
people-centric reference for values,
family-centric reference for values, and
customer-centric reference for values. The
culture space is the domain in which all
minds evolve and develop. All the
differences of behaviors among people,
populations and countries are reflected by
the paths or trajectories of their minds in
the culture space. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Mind, culture,
behavior, value, creation, destruction <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N2-a8-Brain4-Terror-a.pdf#view">Brain
Stories 4: Government Terrors</a><img
src="cid:part17.06030809.00020007@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0
5px 0 0;" height="100" width="100">
18 - 20<br>
by <em>Brian N. Huang </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>Every brain,
from a layman to a national hero, is badly
limited by the knowledge it can learn
through its lifetime. The poorer his living
conditions, the less likely he receives
necessary education to act more
intelligently. When such an individual has
unchecked power in the government, the
government inevitably results in widespread
terrors in the name of the people or the
nation. Here I tell a personal true story
about how I was hopelessly part of the
terrors created by a government whose
unchecked paramount leader was not
necessarily fully aware that he was indeed
badly cheating the poor class and the nation
that he claimed to represent. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Government
power, checks and balances, the Cultural
Revolution <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=CoverBack-2013-11-22.pdf#view">Back
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