[Bmi] I was banned from connectionist mailing list?

[Juyang Weng]

Ben,

Public awareness of new brain science is not a goal that myself alone 
can reach.
That is why we need this forum as a start.

If one reads most papers that my coworkers wrote with me, the "detailed 
connections"
that you referred to are already there!  Of course, more are needed and 
our work
is based on existing studies in many disciplines.

Each BMM paper (2k words) cannot expand across many levels of knowledge
(e.g., from cell biology to politics) in an understandable way as that 
is not how
the brain of a reader works.

We are experiencing the same situation as Charles Darwin's evolution 
theory but the
scope of brain science is much wider.  Let us be patient and keep 
communicating.
Those dare to venture into the brain science will be the first to benefit.
Others will join later.

-John

On 4/1/15 11:49 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
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> John,
>
> I agree that there are close connections between politics and
> neuroscience.   However, as it happens, your politics articles in the
> BMI Magazine seem to just give your opinions on political issues, and
> do not explicitly draw connections with neuroscience.   If your
> articles drew detailed connections between politics and neuroscience,
> that would be rather interesting!
>
> After all, every human behavior is rooted in neuroscience in some
> sense.   But it still makes sense to distinguish papers and articles
> that are explicitly related to neuroscience, from those that merely
> describe phenomena which are in some way rooted in neuroscience.
> Otherwise, "neuroscience" would simply come to mean "everything
> related to creatures that have brains", and would be a much less
> useful category..
>
> -- Ben G
>
>
>
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