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Category: philosophy

How neurologist John Kitchin threw it all away to attain enlightenment through roller skating

Posted on Mon Apr 7th 2014Mon Apr 7th 2014 by Dustin

The story of 69-year-old John Kitchin, a neurologist who abandoned his professional life in 1998 to lead a simple life, and to perfect his own style of slow-motion, inline roller skating along the beaches of San Diego.

On Michael Gazzaniga’s book, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”

Posted on Sat Mar 3rd 2012Sat Mar 3rd 2012 by Dustin

Our sense of self is achieved by specialized modules in the brain working in loose formation with one another in the absence of any real self at all. They make us identify the brain’s thoughts as our own, even when the cause is known to be external control of our brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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