[Bmi] Brain-Mind Magazine vol. 2, no. 1, 2013
Juyang Weng
weng at cse.msu.edu
Sat Mar 23 18:30:31 EDT 2013
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Winter 2013 Vol. 2, No. 1
ISSN 2166-9732
Table of Contents
Front Cover
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Understanding the Self Biologically
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a1-SelfBiology-a.pdf#view>banner
1 - 3
by /Yi Zheng /and/Gonzalo Munevar /
*Abstract: *In Total Recall the hero discovers that his good-guy
self is just implanted memories. His body used to be occupied by
another, vicious self, whose allies want back. This fantasy gains
some plausibility from the traditional conception of the self as a
collection of experiences kept in memory --- a unified conscious
self that makes our experiences feel ours. Great fiction, bad
neuroscience. There is no central brain structure that corresponds
to that self, and some scientists have concluded that the self is an
illusion. The notion that the self tags our experiences as ours
seems to be wrong. And the idea that the self is a collection of
remembered experiences turns out to be false. We propose instead a
revolutionary biological conception of the self: The brain has
evolved to constitute a self that is mostly unconscious and
distributive, which does away with the paradoxes, explains all the
seemingly contradictory experimental results, and opens up new
avenues of research in neuroscience.
*Index terms: *Self, evolution, neuroscience, distributive,
brain-imaging
Turn Slogans into "Science"?
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a2-Slogans-a.pdf#view>banner
4 - 7
by /D. W. Mabaho /
*Abstract: *Juyang Weng's two letters to Obama amount to a lack and
misuse of neuroscience knowledge, impoverishment and confusion in
logic, as well as tailoring and misreading of historical facts. It
is an example of ideological slogans disguised under the term
"science".
*Index terms: *brain-mind, checks of government power, history
Every Country should Self-Organize like a Brain: Rebuttal to D. W.
Mabaho
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a3-CountryBrain-a.pdf#view>banner
8 - 11
by /Juyang Weng /
*Abstract: *I would like to thank D. W. Mabaho for raising many
questions, which enable me to reply more comprehensively. I am more
convinced that every country should self-organize like a brain. This
is not an ideology, since the brain's self-organization is highly
holistic.
*Index terms: *history, checks-and-balances, self-organization
Private Data: A Huge Problem with Education Research
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a4-MilgramRichard-a.pdf#view>banner
12 - 13
by /R. James Milgram /
*Abstract: *A very influential paper on improving math outcomes was
published in 2008. The authors refused to divulge their data
claiming that agreements with the schools and FERPA rules prevented
it. It turns out that this is not true. When, by other means, we
found the identities of the schools, serious problems with the
conclusions of the article were quickly revealed. The 2008 paper was
far from unique in this respect. There are many papers that have had
huge influences on K-12 mathematics curricula, and could not be
independently verified because the authors refused to reveal their
data. In this article we describe how we were able to find the real
data, and point out the legal constraints that should make it very
difficult for authors of such papers to withhold their data in the
future.
*Index terms: *Evaluation of publication, mathematical education
Standing Up to Academic Bullying: and Those Who Block the Path to
Improvements in Education
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a5-BoalerJo-a.pdf#view>banner
14 - 15
by /Jo Boaler /
*Abstract: *Honest academic debate lies at the core of good
scholarship. But what happens when, under the guise of academic
freedom, people distort the truth in order to promote their position
and discredit someone's evidence?
*Index terms: *Evaluation of publication, mathematical education
When a Reviewer's Comments Became Longer than the Submitted Paper
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a6-SolgiMojtaba-a.pdf#view>banner
16 - 17
by /Mojtaba Solgi /
*Abstract: *The debate over the pros and cons of the so-called
scholarly peer review of journals is as old as itself. In this short
essay, I wish not to take a side, but to simply tell a story. The
story is of how a recently published paper [1] was first hammered by
the reviewers as vague, incomprehensible and worthy of rejection,
and later praised as "unorthodox" and worthy of the attention of the
research community.
*Index terms: *Peer review, research evaluation, perceptual
learning, transfer
Brain Stories 3: Bitter Science
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a7-Brain3Bitter-a.pdf#view>banner
18 - 21
by /Brian N. Huang /
*Abstract: *Like the rest of this series, this is a true story. The
developmental program for scientific research --- scientific
policies and bylaws --- seems to be immature for upholding justice.
The human race is paying dearly for this immaturity using taxpayer
dollars. However, I do not mean to discourage bright young people
from taking a career in scientific research.
*Index terms: *Checks and balances, scientific policies, bylaws,
shortsightedness, discrimination, injustice
The 3rd Open Letter to the US President Obama: Why Government
Ideologies Block Knowledge?
<http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a8-Letter3Ideology-a.pdf#view>banner
22 - 24
by /Juyang Weng /
*Abstract: *Ideologies are attractive to many constituents who are
not aware of the limitations of each ideology. Although the US
Constitution was designed for checks-and-balances of power, the most
basic problem in the US is still the lack of checks-and-balances of
power. Only after US governmental officials and politicians acquire
knowledge about how the brain works can they enable the US to
overcome the fundamental limitations of its Constitution. Many
current major problems in the US cannot be solved without a holistic
approach suggested by known theoretical understanding about how our
own brains work.
*Index terms: *US interest, science of brain and mind, domestic and
foreign policies
Back cover
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