A large hurdle for the search for consciousness in the brain was inadvertently discovered by neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who treated patients with severe epilepsy by lesioning areas of the brain that were instigating seizures. @marcosien explains: https://t.co/Zn7MfKR54Z

Scientists have observed animals getting drunk in the wild for decades, but why do they do it? For a lot of the same reasons humans do. @marcosien explains: https://t.co/DlaBI6gL04

The Truth About Which Animals Get Drunk Is More Complicated Than You Think Scientists have observed animals getting drunk in the wild for decades, but why do they do it? For a lot of the same reasons humans do. | @marcosien

How do we recollect emotional and sensory elements—registered in distinct areas of the brain—and conjure them all up at once, recalling a past mental event as a single experience? Brain ripples—also implicated in conscious experience, writes @marcosien: https://t.co/rwLC6fYW0o

Why can it just be Monday instead of Revelations 9:3? 'Just disgusting': A Nevada city confronts millions of smelly Mormon crickets

It’s time to pour a cold one and find out why some animals get drunk (yes, really). 🧵

Remember that party you went to last weekend? Of course you do, but how are we able to recall the event as a single experience? Explore how high-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience: https://t.co/Zn7MfKR54Z

Did you know that, taking into account relative weight, a gerbil could outdrink several elephants? My latest on the boozie-suzies of the animal kingdom for @NautilusMag

@marcosien @NautilusMag We know that synchronization in the brain is a necessary component of memory recall. When this synchronization fails, so do our working memories, @jordanacep wrote for Quanta in 2018. https://t.co/xUtd3wG9MX

New research identifies high-frequency waves rippling through the cerebral cortex as perhaps a key physical process underpinning memory and consciousness, reports @marcosien for @NautilusMag. https://t.co/OTLt9DvP3a

Perhaps the search for consciousness was impeded for so long because we were searching for the wrong kind of thing, something physical or structural rather than phenomenal. @marcosien in @NautilusMag. https://t.co/A31XbeAiAG

Marco Altamirano (@marcosien) says one of the most challenging questions regarding memory deals with the most obvious fact about them—that we can recollect them at all. Click for the article and more from Nautilus.

Thanks for this Marco. Proust was on to something. Certainly explains my book-music-movie-make-out memory-matrix. Also perhaps instructive with regards to upcoming mid-terms. Ride those memory ripples people…

I highly recommend you read this excellent piece on brain ripples in humans and a recent discovery about the role they may play in generating memory and consciousness by @marcosien. It was a real pleasure working with him on it! https://t.co/WRr98yBQ4k?

Thanks to @NautilusMag for the thoughtful article on our recent publication in PNAS. @marcosien @IlyaVerz https://t.co/UcfLDlfbwR

My new article on memory and consciousness is out now @NautilusMag https://t.co/QYwR4ga5iG

Pretty emblematic of our times: a man self-sacrificed in a protest tradition on the steps the Supreme Court as the planet burned with him and people just walked by talking about Elon Musk and Johnny Depp.

This car is protected by viper

Listen to my article on self-reproducing computer modeled robots made with only organic materials on @curioio

Let's discuss Russian economy. Many underestimate its dependency upon technological import. Russia's so deeply integrated into Western technological chains that severing these ties will lead to its collapse. Sanctions are already effective and can be made even more efficient🧵