Bob Blum

Robert L. Blum, MD, PhD

Pentachoron

Emergency Physician: Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, ret.

Diplomate: American Board of Emergency Medicine

Diplomate: American Board of Internal Medicine

Research Scientist: Stanford University, Computer Science Department

Post-Doctoral Fellow: Clinical Pharmacology: Stanford University

PhD: Computer Science and Biostatistics: Stanford University

MD: University of California, San Francisco (neuroscience)

B Sci: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mathematics)

Hot Off the Presses: Optimal Nutrition: Are Fats Killers or Saviors?
We are each a community of 10 trillion cells in dynamic equilibrium with what we eat.
So, what should we eat? How many calories per day? How much fat and what kinds of fat?
Controversy abounds, but it's essential to get it right. I examine the issue in detail
and show you the best videos and articles available free on the internet.

Recently Important: Beating Jeopardy! What is WATSON? AI Overlord or Tool?

Ever Popular: The MYSTERY of CONSCIOUSNESS

Online Video is here! Consciousness: What, Who, When, and Why
(the first of my lectures on the neurobiology of consciousness, begun on Feb 28, 2010)

And: A Hugely Expanded Version of Bob's BRAIN:
A Repository of 3300 Links to Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and AI
(Requires JAVA on your computer. Note: my in vivo brain is still only 1½ quarts.)

Also Ever Popular: Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?

And: Near Death Experiences: In the Tucson Desert with Pim Van Lommel

And: A Book Review of Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants

A Review of Intel's 320 series, 25 nm Solid State Drives,

Singularity Summit 2010: Aug 14-15: San Francisco:
Detailed Lecture Notes and Transcriptions

Also new: Kepler Seeks Earth-like Worlds

Also new: SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

And: Consciousness as Global Resonance

And: Total Recall - Technology Wants Everything, Everywhere, Always

And past favorites:
Technology, the Future of Mankind, and the Longevity of Our Civilization

Artificial Consciousness? Digital Computers, No: Silicon Networks, Maybe!
A response to David Gelernter's AI is Lost in the Woods

Against the Wall, Behaviorists! Get Conscious Now! Read William James!

Stanford Center for the Explanation of Consciousness
(I regularly attend this series featuring some of the foremost philosophers
of mind; recent talks were given by John Searle, Paul and Pat Churchland,
Owen Flanagan, and Pat Suppes - highly recommended, if you're in town.

Book Review of TRANSCEND: 9 Steps to Living Forever

My review of James Cameron's Avatar

The Internet Rises to Self-Understanding:
Kevin Kelly's Global SuperOrganism

Singularity Summit 2010: Aug 14-15: San Francisco:
Detailed Lecture Notes and Transcriptions

URGENT EVOKE: Save The Planet via Video Games! (?)

Robot Scientists Automate Discovery
Phil Zimbardo's Secret Powers of Time

Salman Khan teaches the world science and math
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