13 APR 2013 by ideonexus

 Eating for a Healthy Brain

So, the first priority for getting the highest brain j performance is to consume sufficient amounts of protein each day. Insights are cognitively taxing to the human brain, so it makes sense that fueling our neurotransmitters with high-octane fuel —protein —is essential for high-powered thinking. Next come antioxidants from foods like blueberries, Matcha green tea, and walnuts, which stave off cognitive cell damage. We need healthy cells in order to burn new circuitry, and as we establ...
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Includes a list of foods associated with improved brain functions

01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus

 The Pandemonium Software Architecture

This essay, while dealing with computational theory, provides a model for how the brain functions. The Pandemonium Model, where multiple processes try to answer a patter, with a administrative function picking the best answer, provides an excellent model for the environment in which the brain evolved, with useful components being selected over poor or noisy components.
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Seems like an early design pattern, where a bunch of processes look for patterns of things they can handle, and one jumps at it. Is this like the Delegator Pattern?