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Stan Shunpike
Stan Shunpike
05:24
@AliceD any thoughts about this one? biology.stackexchange.com/q/29759/11652 question on layers of the cortex
AliceD
AliceD
05:48
@StanShunpike I do. I have seen the question,of course :), but it's hard to answer. The thing is that the layered cortex is not a model, it is an established neuro anatomical circuitry. It is not a matter of right or wrong.
AliceD
AliceD
06:02
@StanShunpike I can write up an answer, since it has been unanswered so long. It's an interesting question, but my answer may not be satisfactory.
 
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fileunderwater
fileunderwater
13:37
@StanShunpike Note that you are also very welcome to post an answer (complete or partial) to your own question, if you have read-up on the subject further after posting the question.
AliceD
AliceD
14:28
@StanShunpike I just found some interesting material :) I'll try to come up with an answer over the weekend.
 
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Stan Shunpike
Stan Shunpike
15:46
@AliceD Excellent! Thanks! I also found an interesting article on the subject by Gordon Shepard ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102215 He's the author of several textbooks including The Synaptic Organization of the Brain and has been a proponent of content-addressable memory approaches to smell.
@WYSIWYG I thought we had settled on The Biosphere as the name. Did that not happen?
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG
16:25
@StanShunpike very soon..
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
I thought Biodome was good too, but it didn't seem to catch on.
Resonating
Resonating
17:08
perhaps The Vesicle ?
Darwin's Playground has been taken (it's a terrible terrible statue outside my workplace)
SolarLunix
SolarLunix
17:19
Hey all
 
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Stan Shunpike
Stan Shunpike
21:07
Is attention an emotion?
See cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/10852/…
I'm a bit confused in my example here
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
21:26
@Resonating Taken by who/what? If you have a suggestion, why not post an answer to that question?
Resonating
Resonating
@FaheemMitha There's a statue called that. I don't have any good suggestions. Certainly none I like more than the biosphere
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Resonating ok, fair enough.
And what is a terrible, terrible statue? Do you have a picture of it?
If it's those green, yellow and red monstrosities, then never mind.
Wow, people get paid to do this? Nice work if you can get it.
Hmm, he's a faculty member at UIC. That seems appropriate - their campus is a monstrosity too.
Resonating
Resonating
Oh I'm so glad you hate it. It is those! They're even worse up close. They crack and collect water when it rains.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Resonating I'm sure you can't be the only person there to hate it. What do your colleagues think?
Resonating
Resonating
@FaheemMitha They all hate it too. I'm glad it's not cultural hate but uiversal human hate
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
21:42
BTW, I remember someone (at UNC) who had visited the UIC campus as a student applicant, and memorably said there were two things you could do there: (1) buy some crack (2) leave.
@Resonating I'm not sure what that means. But Ok.

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