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(Bob Blum, MD, PhD - this is my digital brain. Read about my research at www.bobblum.com
I've had two careers: 1) cognitive neuroscience researcher (now) and principal investigator
(in the 1980s) in artificial intelligence at Stanford and
2) emergency physician with Kaiser Hospitals in Northern California.
This WebBrain contains a decade of my working notes.
The key feature of this Brain found NO WHERE ELSE: my Stanford lecture notes.
These are often "first reveals" of ground-breaking research by the world's top scientists.
I strive to take notes like a court reporter: every major idea, but also all the details
(the citations, the asides and the jokes.) This is exactly as delivered to audience experts.
(My intended audience is science writers and other researchers (not casual readers.)
This is a TREE with 8000 nodes: (the public half of my total working set.)
Click on ANY node in the blue network above to navigate.
The starting nodes I recommend (in yellow) are pinned to the top of the window:
(you can always get back here by clicking INSTRUCTIONS above.)
2015 AAA Superstars is a list of the top lectures I attended in 2015.
Many of these are cutting edge presentations by National Academy members to
standing room only crowds. All my notes are attached. Also see
2014 AAA Superstar Lectures. and All Lectures.
MBC: Mind, Brain, Computation is where I attend several lectures each week.
(Stanford Psych Dept: Jordan Hall)
AA Alphabetic MBC Indexes is a list of many talks I've attended
in the past few years. I've also indexed many Stanford lectures
in neurobiology here. See SNI Stfd Neurosci Inst.
(Note to scholars: it is indexes and not indices.)
SEARCH: Type a few letters or words into the Search Bar above to find items.
(The search bar is the 1cm by 5 cm white rectangle
at the bottom, left corner of the blue window above. But, it's usually
easiest to just navigate by clicking on nodes in the network.
I keep most of the pdfs for journal articles on my own computer rather than
on the WebBrain server, but many are online at the authors academic websites.
(I'll happily sign your petition favoring open access and denouncing paywalls.)
Thought Window: The bottom half of each window is called the THOUGHT WINDOW.
(That's the blank, white part of each screen where you're reading now.)
Thought Window Links: In many thought windows you'll see a clickable icon
at the left upper corner of the thought window. Clicking on that icon will open
that link on the web. For example, click NEUROSCIENCE, then
click on the W icon (in the thought window) to see the Wikipedia entry.
For 2015 lectures I've uploaded all my lecture notes so they can be directly
read without having to download them. You can either cut and paste them
or download the files.
Downloading My Lecture Notes: Most of the MBC lectures I've attended
will have my notes attached. To download one, click on the little rectangular icon
at the left upper corner of the thought window.
Your computer may ask you if you want to OPEN that file.
The notes are small text files (and are virus-free).
(Once you click, the note will download to your machine.
You may have to look around on your machine to find out in which folder
downloaded files go. On Macs you may see a small button at the bottom
of the screen that you click to launch file into a text editor.)
ARRANGE THOUGHTS: Right click on the blue part of the brain above (the plex).
You will see a menu. You can arrange the order of thoughts (nodes) by name,
ie alphabetically, or by types (tier 1, 2, 3). (BTW, my tiers are mainly relevance/
salience-based. So, don't be bummed out if your Nobel only gets you to tier 2.)
Added bonus: If you want a psychedelic tour of my brain, click the option WANDER.
(Click any of the pinned yellow nodes at the top to turn off WANDER.)
This is the public portion of my PersonalBrain.
You can create your own PersonalBrain by going to TheBrain.com.
Their (permanently) free version is quite useful.