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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=Cover-V2-N1.pdf#view">Front
Cover</a> 0 <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a1-SelfBiology-a.pdf#view">Understanding
the Self Biologically</a><img
src="cid:part5.03000803.02060809@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
0;" height="100" width="100"> 1 - 3<br>
by <em>Yi Zheng </em>and<em> Gonzalo Munevar </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Self, evolution,
neuroscience, distributive, brain-imaging <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a2-Slogans-a.pdf#view">Turn
Slogans into “Science”?</a><img
src="cid:part7.03080705.08040400@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
0;" height="100" width="100"> 4 - 7<br>
by <em>D. W. Mabaho </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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”. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>brain-mind, checks
of government power, history <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a3-CountryBrain-a.pdf#view">Every
Country should Self-Organize like a Brain:
Rebuttal to D. W. Mabaho</a><img
src="cid:part9.08000303.09020404@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
0;" height="100" width="100"> 8 -
11<br>
by <em>Juyang Weng </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>history,
checks-and-balances, self-organization <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a4-MilgramRichard-a.pdf#view">Private
Data: A Huge Problem with Education Research</a><img
src="cid:part11.01020205.05020509@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
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by <em>R. James Milgram </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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.
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<strong>Index terms: </strong>Evaluation of
publication, mathematical education <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a5-BoalerJo-a.pdf#view">Standing
Up to Academic Bullying: and Those Who Block the
Path to Improvements in Education</a><img
src="cid:part13.09030208.09030407@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
0;" height="100" width="100"> 14 -
15<br>
by <em>Jo Boaler </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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? <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Evaluation of
publication, mathematical education <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a6-SolgiMojtaba-a.pdf#view">When
a Reviewer's Comments Became Longer than the
Submitted Paper</a><img
src="cid:part15.07050400.05070501@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
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by <em>Mojtaba Solgi </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Peer review,
research evaluation, perceptual learning, transfer
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a7-Brain3Bitter-a.pdf#view">Brain
Stories 3: Bitter Science</a><img
src="cid:part17.04000102.08090101@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
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by <em>Brian N. Huang </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>Checks and balances,
scientific policies, bylaws, shortsightedness,
discrimination, injustice <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/read.php?file=BMM-V2-N1-a8-Letter3Ideology-a.pdf#view">The
3rd Open Letter to the US President Obama: Why
Government Ideologies Block Knowledge?</a><img
src="cid:part19.00010202.03020508@cse.msu.edu"
alt="banner" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 0
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by <em>Juyang Weng </em><br>
<strong>Abstract: </strong>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. <br>
<strong>Index terms: </strong>US interest, science
of brain and mind, domestic and foreign policies <br>
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Juyang (John) Weng, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
3115 Engineering Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Tel: 517-353-4388
Fax: 517-432-1061
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