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.

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)

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

And: SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Technology, the Future of Mankind, and the Longevity of Our Civilization

Newsworthy 2011: Beating Jeopardy! What is WATSON? AI Overlord or Tool?

And: An 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.)

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

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

Kepler Seeks Earth-like Worlds

With STEVE PINKER in the AMAZON - Cognitive Science in the Jungle

Consciousness as Global Resonance

Total Recall - Technology Wants Everything, Everywhere, Always

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

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

Book Review of Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future by Marshall Brain
Future AIs may act as enslaving Big Brothers or as empowering liberators.

Antidepressants Don't - Ketamine Does
Increasing evidence suggests that antidepressants mainly work via a placebo effect.
See Lesley Stahl's interview of Harvard's Irving Kirsch on the TV show 60 Minutes.
Also, ketamine general anesthesia may acutely resolve severe depression.
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