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free will
| Intelligently designed (divine?) will (soul?) in fruit flies? |
| Quite to my surprise, the intelligent design movement has picked up on our recent study on fruit fly spontaneous behavior. In this study, we found evidence that spontaneous behavior is more than simple system noise. The ...[more] |
| free will intelligent design drosophila spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 03:32:00 |
| ...and now for some Patricia Churchland on Free Will |
| This video can't be embedded, it seems, but it's well worth watching on The Science Network website. It's about what neuroscience can tell us about free will and starts with the folk psychological notion of what free wil...[more] |
| free will Churchland neuroscience video |
| Posted on Friday 24 October 2008 - 02:46:23 |
| media frenzy continues |
| After spending a good part of the past weekend (actually all of it except the time I needed to play our game this past Sunday and preparing for today's experiments) answering questions from journalists about our upcoming...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Monday 14 May 2007 - 09:08:27 |
| Free will is a popular topic |
| What surprising effects a press-release can have. Our paper on spontaneous behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila due to appear in PLoS One next week is accompanied by a press-release PLoS sent out just a day or two ago. T...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Friday 11 May 2007 - 19:20:26 |
| Fruit fly spontaneity blogroll |
| In total, over 40 blogs have covered our work on spontaneous behavior in flies, some with very long and scholarly discussions and comments. Most of the blogs paid very close attention to what we wrote and how we worded i...[more] |
| drosophila free will flight spontaneous behavior blogroll |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 02:51:53 |
| SPECULATION: free will?? WTF? |
| Of course, our original study makes no mention of free will, it is not a scientific concept. However, the discovery of spontaneity even in flies makes us ponder what, if anything, this might entail for our subjective exp...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 09:38:35 |
| We've been boingboinged! |
| Almost exactly a year after our paper on spontaneous behavior in Drosophila appeard in PLoS One, one of my students from last term's neuroinformatics course, Matthias Winkelmann, suggested it as interesting stuff on ...[more] |
| boingboing free will spontaneous behavior drosophila brain |
| Posted on Sunday 13 April 2008 - 08:54:24 |
| SCIENCE: spontaneous behavior |
| With all the discussion raging in the blogosphere (see, e.g., slashdot, coturnix, evolution denialism, the futile circle, Nature, etc.), I think I should take one post to emphasize the scientific aspect of our work and ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 08:56:28 |
| We got slashdotted! |
It appears the media coverage our study on spontaneous fruit fly behavior (updated press release) made it to the cover not only of LiveScience, but also on /. I've replied to the story and there's already a link from one...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight slashdot |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 03:04:58 |
| Let the onslaught begin |
| It is done! Our paper on spontaneous activity in Drosophila fruit flies is finally out in PLoS One. Almost 4 years of hard work in the can! Phew! And the media reports are already starting to pour in: New Scientist, ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media coverage |
| Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2007 - 03:55:54 |
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