Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. [NST==>Another knee-slapper. Granting to the author the notion that the word “drive” is equivalent to some notion of “cause”, we learn that behaviors are caused by purely mental constructs. How could anything be “p

Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
[NST==>I persist in not seeing the relevance of the physiological information to the question of the nature of consciousness or, if one prefers, the question of how it makes sense to talk about consciousness. I assume [from my vast store of ignorance] that computer folks would all agree that th

Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Roger, Thanks for sending along the Science quote, which is an absolutely perfect target for a couple of my pet rages. See larding: Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. [NST==>That sentence is all higgledy-piggledy. Notice that we could flip the words “goal-direct

Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 10:48 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans Roger, Do you have access to the PDF? Can you send it to me? Thanks. Merle On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Roger Critchlow mailto:r...@elf.org>>

Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Roger, Do you have access to the PDF? Can you send it to me? Thanks. Merle On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > In today's issue of Science, > http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 > > Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however

Re: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 7:51 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans In today's issue of Science, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 Goal-dir

[FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

2016-03-04 Thread Roger Critchlow
In today's issue of Science, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information