Recent content by flyzeggs

Any suggestions on how to go about becoming a researcher in this area? I have very little formal background in math and physics and will be studying this on my spare time (which means when I'm not working on the cognitive stuff, though I would love to integrate something more rigorous into...

From what I've seen students who don't have stellar marks but still want to benefit from the research opportunities often end up in larger public research-intensive universities outside the US, maybe Edinburgh, McGill, UCL/Imperial, Toronto, UBC. You'd probably end up saving a lot of money as...

I was wondering if anyone can give me a tip for doing it the other way. I'm a neuroscience major (MSc.) interested in applying to a biophysics PhD program. I also really want to try to incorporate some biophysics into my MSc. thesis which will likely include fMRI analysis, so if you could...

The philosophical motivation behind the quantum-consciousness link is the "measurement problem" (from SEP: "von Neumann's motivation for introducing collapse was to save what he called psycho-physical parallelism (arguably supervenience of the mental on the physical: only one mental state is...

I've seen papers written by Philosophers in reputable Physics journals. Why not try the Physics and Philosophy majors (offered by many schools in the UK and I think Brown in the US or the foundations of physics grad program at Columbia), they're quite good. I think it's a bit unfortunate...

What are in your opinion the most interesting areas or topics in foundational physics? (that have or could have profound philosophical implications) I want to see what's out there.

That's very true of clinical/social/personality psychology which has found its way in pop culture. This kind of psychology makes good business, but bad science! But to be fair it's not at all representative of the entire field.

I'm a Psych major and I say PSYCHOLOGY IS A PSEUDOSCIENCE Most psychologists like some evolutionary biologists, notably those in social, motivation and clinical come up with non-parsimonious, contradicting, "degenerative theories". Even just-so theories... :S Initially it was headed in the...