Jul 25

Probing the creative brain

"As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I’ve had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovable, tormented Kurt Vonnegut—will always be one of my favorites."…

More than 100 leading neuroscientists protested European commission-funded Human Brain Project in an open letter Monday, criticizing that the $1.6 billion project to stimulate human brain will waste money and harm neuroscience.

Can we reconcile the advancements of our modern world with Plato’s philosophical questions of free will? In “Plato at the Googleplex,” author Rebecca Goldstein imagines how Plato would approach neuroscience, the Internet and other technologies that make philosophy obsolete to…