The Naked Brain

The cover (pdf) of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society for April 2007 (Mathematics Awareness Month) features a naked disembodied brain (Log24, March 16), courtesy of researchers at the Catholic University of Louvain.
 

Related material:

 

Log24, Jan. 26

"… at last she realized
what the Thing on the dais was.
IT was a brain.
A disembodied brain…."
 
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
"There could not be an objective test
that distinguished a clever robot
from a really conscious person."
 
— Daniel Dennett in TIME magazine,
Daniel Dennett in his office

Daniel Dennett, Professor of Philosophy
and Director of the
Center for Cognitive Studies
at Tufts University,
in his office on campus.
(Boston Globe, Jan. 29, 2006.
Photo © Rick Friedman.)

 

Related recommended
reading and viewing:

Tom Wolfe's essay
"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,"
and a video of an interview
 with Wolfe.