<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">PS.<div><br></div><div>With respect to questions like “how does the brain represent time”:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">I recommend you f</span><font face="Calibri" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ind the documentary titled “Berkeley” that showed recently on the "independent lens” series on PBS</span></font><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">scan forward about an hour (its 4 1/2 hours long) until you hear the " cognitive neuroscientist" (probably how he lists his occupation, although I don’t know for sure) lecturing students in his class on how time IS represented in the brain.</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Even this mailing list should recognize that the assertion of the "amazing neuroscience discovery" that 40 Hz oscillations are driven by a special location in the brain stem, is Neuro-BS. </span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is NOT ok, but way way way too common, in those who want to talk about the brain, want to market what they are doing using neuroscience, but have NO IDEA what they are talking about.</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Shocking</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I watched this documentary last night AFTER engaging in the connectionist Tet-a-tet all day yesterday.</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">you can imagine…..</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jim Bower</span></font></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Danny Silver <<a href="mailto:danny.silver@acadiau.ca">danny.silver@acadiau.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times;">23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience, edited by L. Van Hemmen and T. Sejnowslti</span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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