Susie Mckinnon - The Strange Case of the Woman Who Canʼt Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future (memory)
Susie McKinnon was discovered to have an intriguing and extreme case of SDAM - severely deficient autobiographical memory.
Susie McKinnon doesn’t remember being a child or remember being any age other than whatever age she is when someone speaks with her. She can’t remember special events, either. She knows she went to her nephew’s wedding. She knows her husband went with her. But she can’t actually remember being there.
In fact, she has very few memories from her life – but she doesn’t have amnesia.
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This video was created to supplement the 2016 article on Susie in WIRED - https://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographical-memory-sdam/
The audio content for the video is from this short CBC radio interview with Susie in June 2015: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2670406429
*** WIRED article excerpts***
- For decades, scientists suspected that someone like Susie McKinnon might exist...living an ordinary life—hard to tell apart from the next person in line at the grocery store, ...sure enough, they found her (or rather, she found them) in 2006.
- McKinnon is the first person ever identified with a condition called severely deficient autobiographical memory. She knows plenty of facts about her life, but she lacks the ability to mentally relive any of it
- “I don’t remember being shorter or smaller or having to reach up for things. I have no images or impressions of myself as a kid.”
- The way McKinnon experiences life scrambles much of what we presume is essential to being human. No less a figure than the philosopher John Locke argued that memory, the kind McKinnon lacks, is the very thing that constitutes personal identity.
- Spend enough time with McKinnon and it’s hard to escape the creeping sense that she’s not just different—she’s lucky. Memories that would be searing to anyone else leave little impression on her.
- McKinnon also quickly forgets arguments... She cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to the diminishments of aging.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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Split Brains -You Are Two
The idea of dual consciousness has caused controversy in the neuroscience community.
Split-brain patients have two minds and are two persons. Despite the significant differences between the two hemispheres, each sustains a range and complexity of psychological functions, including self-awareness.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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Justin Cottle - Inside the Brain of a Psychopath
Justin Cottle -Director/Dissector/Instructor for the Institute of Human Anatomy- breaks down the physical differences in the nervous systems of those that suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder.
*Video Timeline*
00:00 - 00:47 Intro
00:48 - 01:59 Cluster B Personality Disorders
02:00 - 03:07 Psychopath vs Sociopath
03:08 - 04:55 Serotonin Creation/Action
04:56 - 06:16 MAOA and Genetics
06:17 - 06:36 Genetics and Psychopathy
06:37 - 08:39 Function of Serotonin
08:40 - 09:51 Serotonin and the Fetal Brain
09:52 - 11:25 Why Men Are More Commonly Psychopathic
11:26 - 12:22 The Contributing Factors of Psychopathy
12:23 - 13:04 The Struggle of Studying Psychopaths
13:05 - 15:13 The Empathy Center of the Brain
15:14 - 17:54 The Rational Center of the Brain
17:55 - 18:47 Childhood Trauma and the Brain
18:48 - 19:43 Sociopathy and Childhood Trauma
19:44 - 22:04 The Common Behaviors of Psychopaths and Sociopaths
22:05 - 24:16 Unique Behaviors of Psychopaths
24:17 - 25:37 Unique Behaviors of Sociopaths
25:38 - 26:56 Treating Antisocial Personality Disorder
26:57 - 28:16 Justin's Opinion on a Solution
28:17 - 28:53 Why You Can't Diagnose Children
28:54 - 29:34 The Impossible Task Ahead of Us
29:35 - 33:50 The Importance of Logic
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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Dr. Dan Siegel - Definition of Mind
No doubt, the brain plays an incredibly important role. But our mind cannot be confined to what’s inside our skull, or even our body, according to a definition first put forward by Dan Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and the author of the 2016 book, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human.
What is the difference between the mind and the brain according to Siegel?
"Specifically, relationships are the sharing between people of energy and information flow. The brain and its whole body are the embodied mechanism of that flow, and the mind is the self-organizing process that regulates that flow." What you do with your mind, he adds, "can even change the structure of your brain."
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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David Pearce - Paradise Engineering: A Non-Trivial Pursuit of Happiness
Paradise Engineering is non-trivial for a couple of reasons:
a) the pursuit of this vision of happiness is not trivial – it is likely to be a very challenging endeavor
b) the aim is to achieve non-trivial modes of happiness, kinds of information-sensitive gradients of bliss
Imagine the best experience possible – it would be lower than tomorrows floor.
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture – a motivational system based on heritable gradients of bliss.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
and https://interestzine.com/utopia/
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David Pearce - The Binding Problem of Consciousness
Wikipedia says: The consciousness and binding problem is the problem of how objects, background and abstract or emotional features are combined into a single experience.
The binding problem refers to the overall encoding of our brain circuits for the combination of decisions, actions, and perception. The binding problem encompasses a wide range of different circuits and can be divided into subsections that will be discussed later on. The binding problem is considered a "problem" due to the fact that no complete model exists.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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How Your Brain Controls You and How to Hack It
Your brain uses chemicals such as cortisol, adrenaline, DHEA, dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin to create the very essence of feeling, meaning desire, purpose and more.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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Jordan Peterson and Andrew Huberman: Dopamine Pornography
Neuroscience behind porn, masturbation, other addictions and dopamine.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/brain/
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Ed Yong - (modified host behaviour) - Suicidal wasps, zombie roaches and other parasite tales
We humans set a premium on our own free will and independence ... and yet there's a shadowy influence we might not be considering.
Science writer Ed Yong explains in this fascinating, hilarious and disturbing talk on (modified host behavior); a new science studying microbes and parasites which have perfected the art of brain manipulation to an incredible degree.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Ed Yong -The Microbes Within Us - (modified host behaviour)
Presentation lecture on the book 'I Contain Multitudes', which peers into the world discovery, allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, *guide our behavior* (modified host behavior), bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities.
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Q&A - The Microbes Within Us - with Ed Yong: https://youtu.be/K4GBVDn_Ldg
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Related videos on microbiome modified host behavior:
1 - https://rumble.com/v2310vu-how-bacteria-rule-over-your-body-modified-host-behaviour-the-microbiome.html
2 - https://rumble.com/v22uyyu-your-gut-microbes-are-controlling-your-mind-modified-host-behaviour.html
3 - https://rumble.com/v22qbqk-elaine-hsiao-at-tedx-modified-host-behaviour-mind-altering-microbes.html
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Zombie Snails – (modified host behaviour)
How a zombie snail is formed is truly fascinating.
A parasitic worm called Leucochloridium needs a host — a host is a body a parasite can live in and take control of. For this worm, that body belongs to a snail. which attracts the birds that eat them. Eventually the bird 'poops' out the parasite onto leaves. Eventually a snail will the poop and eat it becoming a zombie for the cycle to repeat over and over ....
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Zombifying Parasitic Fungus Takes Over Insects – (modified host behaviour)
Cordyceps is a genus of fungi that multiplies by spreading its spores just like other types of fungi do, but the interesting plot twist here is that Cordyceps’ spores are parasitic; they turn their insect host into a mindless zombie.
There are more than600 different species of Cordyceps fungi, each targeting a particular species of insect, whether it be ants, dragonflies, cockroaches, aphids, or beetles.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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How Anand Varma Captured Zombifying Parasites – (modified host behaviour)
Can something control your behavior for its own nefarious ends?
Photographer Anand Varma details his documenting the fantastical worlds of “zombie” parasites, fire ant colonies, vampire bats, hummingbirds, and jellyfish.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Zombie Caterpillars – (modified host behaviour)
Bodyguards have a tough and risky job but they usually get paid for their trouble. But not the caterpillar of the geometer moth. Against its will, it is recruited to defend the developing young of a parasitic wasp, and the only ‘reward’ it gets for its trouble is to be eaten inside out by the larvae of its attacker.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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The Zombies That Live Among Us – (modified host behaviour)
Mind-controlling ‘zombie’ parasites are real. Parasitism is one of evolution’s favorite strategies.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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The Crab Castrating Zombifying Parasite – (modified host behaviour)
Practically ignored and unstudied since an outbreak among Alaskan crabs in the 1980s, this parasitic barnacle can actually control, castrate, and feminize its host!
Briarosaccus callosus eventually influences their behavior with the sole purpose of infecting others with its larvae, creating what marine biologist Leah Sloan refers to as “zombie crabs.”
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – (modified host behaviour) The Microbiome
Humans are considered as the most powerful species on earth. They are the most intelligent and have the power to control everything that exists on earth.
But what, if we tell you, that this super-intelligent human race is controlled by tiny organisms that live within or exists inside the human body. They not only influence the human brain but behavior too.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Your Gut Microbes Are Controlling Your Mind - (modified host behaviour)
Microbes in your body control how you feel and what you want to eat. Here’s what you’ll do for them.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Elaine Hsiao at TEDx - (modified host behaviour) Mind-altering microbes
How the microbiome affects brain and behavior.
Elaine Hsiao is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biology at Caltech. She received her undergraduate degree in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics from UCLA and her doctoral degree in neurobiology from Caltech with Professor Paul Patterson.
She studied neuroimmune mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental disorders and uncovered a role for the commensal microbiota in regulating autism-related behaviors, metabolism, and intestinal physiology. Elaine has received several honors, including predoctoral fellowships from the National Institute of Health, Autism Speaks and the Caltech Innovation Program.
She is currently studying the mechanisms by which microbes modulate host production of neuroactive molecules and aims to better understand how the human microbiota influences health and disease.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Karen Lloyd - mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity.
The ground beneath your feet is home to a massive, mysterious world of microbes -- some of which have been in the earth's crust for hundreds of thousands of years. What's it like down there? Take a trip to the volcanoes and hot springs of Costa Rica as microbiologist Karen Lloyd shines a light on these subterranean organisms and shows how they could have a profound impact on life up here.
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Carl Zimmer - Are Viruses Alive?
Are viruses alive or are they lifeless packages of protein and nucleic acid?
Countless scientists around the world study life, and yet they can't really agree on what it is. Join New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer as he explores the boundaries of life, encountering viruses and other strange residents of the borderlands.
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, won the 2019 National Academies Communication Award. The Guardian named it the best science book of 2018.
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Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/6QXFvaHi7LM
ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Robert Sapolsky - 2018 JCCSF
A MacArthur Fellow, Sapolsky has been called “one of the best scientist-writers of our time” by Oliver Sacks and “one of the finest natural history writers around” by the New York Times.
What drives human behavior? Why do we do what we do? Is free will an illusion? Has civilization made us better? Can we escape our tribal past? These questions are the subject of Stanford biology professor Robert Sapolsky’s book Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.
Watch him as he explores why we are the way we are and explains why we ultimately do the things we do…for good and for ill.
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Related video:
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https://rumble.com/v22ieu6-robert-sapolsky-2017-modified-host-behaviour-the-joe-rogan-experience.html
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https://rumble.com/v2b8vbe-robert-sapolsky-2016-why-zebras-dont-get-ulcers.html
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https://rumble.com/v22fsgg-robert-sapolsky-2013-alan-alda-interview-for-brains-on-trial.html
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https://rumble.com/v22e772-robert-sapolsky-2012-interview-toxoplasmosis-modified-host-behaviour.html
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https://rumble.com/v220gq8-robert-sapolsky-2010-stanford-lecture-behavioral-evolution.html
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/free-will/
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Robert Sapolsky - 2017 (modified host behaviour) The Joe Rogan Experience
Robert Sapolsky - 2017 (modified host behavior) Explaining Toxoplasmosis on The Joe Rogan Experience
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Full 1hr 7 min of this interview available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/54HZBH9LUeJTvxsmL9h1Kn
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https://rumble.com/v22kev0-robert-sapolsky-2018-jccsf.html
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https://rumble.com/v2b8vbe-robert-sapolsky-2016-why-zebras-dont-get-ulcers.html
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https://rumble.com/v22fsgg-robert-sapolsky-2013-alan-alda-interview-for-brains-on-trial.html
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https://rumble.com/v22e772-robert-sapolsky-2012-interview-toxoplasmosis-modified-host-behaviour.html
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https://rumble.com/v220gq8-robert-sapolsky-2010-stanford-lecture-behavioral-evolution.html
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/modified-host-behavior/
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Robert Sapolsky - 2013 Alan Alda interview for Brains on Trial
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https://rumble.com/v22kev0-robert-sapolsky-2018-jccsf.html
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https://rumble.com/v22ieu6-robert-sapolsky-2017-modified-host-behaviour-the-joe-rogan-experience.html
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https://rumble.com/v2b8vbe-robert-sapolsky-2016-why-zebras-dont-get-ulcers.html
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https://rumble.com/v22e772-robert-sapolsky-2012-interview-toxoplasmosis-modified-host-behaviour.html
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https://rumble.com/v220gq8-robert-sapolsky-2010-stanford-lecture-behavioral-evolution.html
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ADVANCED CIVILIZATION Reference material - https://interestzine.com/free-will/
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Robert Sapolsky - 2012 (modified host behaviour) Interview Toxoplasmosis
In this brief and most fascinating topic, Sapolsky comments on toxoplasmosis and reveals some startling research that suggests thisparasite can not only invade your body but effects your decision making as a result.
As an analogy,it's not a struggle to relate to times when one simply could not help but pick at that zit, even though doing so would inflame it, rupture surrounding cell walls, and quite possibly result in a bigger outbreak. Try as one might, a persistent, unwanted thought would relentlessly pop into the mind. And the zit would be telling you the whole time not to worry, I'm one of those that you just pop, the system clears, all is well.
Instead what's really happened is a thought or feeling in your mind - arising from we know not where - that has convinced you to take the action most likely tospread the infection.
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Related video:
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https://rumble.com/v22kev0-robert-sapolsky-2018-jccsf.html
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https://rumble.com/v22ieu6-robert-sapolsky-2017-modified-host-behaviour-the-joe-rogan-experience.html
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https://rumble.com/v2b8vbe-robert-sapolsky-2016-why-zebras-dont-get-ulcers.html
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https://rumble.com/v22fsgg-robert-sapolsky-2013-alan-alda-interview-for-brains-on-trial.html
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https://rumble.com/v220gq8-robert-sapolsky-2010-stanford-lecture-behavioral-evolution.html
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