Steven Johnson
Wrote a book – a bio feedback
Hooked up to a bunch of sensors and probs
Body in motion
Made a joke – had a huge spike in the screen
- book about the brain
(what part likes coke or pepsi)
Sleepers as they dream
7th century Venice
Created mirrors
“That’s me” -steven Johnson
Repeating the word over and over, and the image of you, losts its meaning.
The inner real you – scientists figuring it
Flux – change (it’s natural)
Sense of self – where is it?
-Someone who has found it. able to point to it inside us
Basic question, where is your self?
-right there (in ancient times) Ramashadin
-Lies where you hear a sound (sound of a neuron firing)
-Activities that are life, thoughts life, passions fear, love life etc. even intimate life
-Greatest realization of a hundred years.
Julian Keenan
-Mentor Gordon gallan put a bunch of chimpanzees with mirrors
-attack the mirror, as if the chimpanzee was another in the mirror
-sticking butts in the mirror
-knowing it was them instead
-Mark Test shaving, spot of shaving cream left moves like me, have a spot on them - knock them out – put in paint chimp wakes up and sees a spot in his head wipes the mark and smells it representation of self
-see the person from the other side and you know its you chimps opened up pandora’s box chimpanzee has a self awareness
Idea of self/recognizing
-bill Clinton (came from?) humans recognize their own faces
Julian keenan digitally morphs two photos together, he sees himself easily but other ppl sees Clinton
able to knock out right or left hemisphere didn’t have the right, wouldn’t see themselves, but if they had they did
can take a walk soul or self
-brain aneurism (hannah pallin) 46 years old day mother’s head exploded august 28, woke up bad headache aerobics usually had no headache afterwards someone called 911, and that all she remembers for four months
-mothers hooked to everything
tight