CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Specialization from The Cellular to Structural Scale (by UCtelevision)
According to background information, lucid dreaming – when you are aware you are dreaming – is a hybrid state between sleeping and being awake. It creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain that have similarities to the patterns made by psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia. (via Dream Therapy As a Treatment Modality | Psych Central News)
“Once we have figured out how morality works as an emotional and mental system there might be ways of improving it,” he told me. The bottom line is that cognitive-enhancing pills are a reality and people are using them. But how comfortable are we with the knowledge that some of our children’s classmates might be taking such drugs to perform better at school, or that one candidate for a job interview might use modafinil to outshine the others? And who was the real me, the one on modafinil, or the one not? Perhaps we should start thinking these questions through, before a drug offering far more than a few percentage points of enhancement comes our way. (via The dope on mental enhancement - health - 11 November 2011 - New Scientist)
