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Added more photos to the gallery: [ misc, Last Weeks at JHU ] I also changed the layout of the gallery so it better matches the rest of this site. I also did some experimenting with mod_rewrite to make the urls more pretty. Right now, some things don’t work, but hopefully they won’t be noticeable. I’ve created a new photo gallery using Coppermine. I’ve uploaded most of the photos I have lying around on my hard drive including photos from commencement. Photo Gallery: http://gallery.carlos-m.net/ Are you 21 or older? Do you drink? Please take the Alcohol and Sleep Survey. I wrote this during the second semester of my senior year at Johns Hopkins University for Sleep, Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness with Dr. Richard Allen. Dreaming in REM and NREM Sleep
Carlos Macasaet 200.368 – Sleep, Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness The most fascinating part of human sleep, at least to writers and poets is dreaming. Sleep in humans is characterised by five distinct brain states, stages one through four, collectively referred to as non-REM (NREM) sleep and REM or rapid eye movement sleep. The term stage W is often used to refer to the wake state. REM sleep is characteristically different from NREM sleep in that the brain activation patterns more closely resemble brain activation in the waking state. In addition, humans experience muscle atonia during REM sleep, which is not present in NREM sleep. When researchers first studied this phenomenon, they noticed that when woken, subjects reported dreaming during REM sleep. This led to the theory that REM is responsible for dreaming. However, it had also been observed that dreams could occur during NREM sleep as well. Further research has shown that dreams occurring in REM sleep are quantitatively and qualitatively different from dreams occurring in NREM sleep. This paper will investigate those differences as well as the underlying brain mechanisms that accompany dream production. I wrote this during the first semester of my senior year at Johns Hopkins University for Minds, Brains and Computers with Dr. Paul Smolensky. Carlos Macasaet The ultimate chapter of Haugeland’s Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea addresses the issue of artificial intelligence from a psychological perspective. That is, it attacks the same problem from the opposite direction as the preceding chapters. It starts with real people as its goal and works backwards, theorising about how one may conceptualise certain aspects of human mental functioning that are not immediately relevant to the problem of cognition. Many problems that involve artificial intelligence approaches to a solution such as speech and handwriting recognition do not require one to implement concepts such as emotion or self-concept into the system in order to solve the problem successfully. However, these are concepts that are important to intelligence that have so far been left out of artificial intelligence research either because of their irrelevance to specific problems or because no way has been found to model such concepts. Continue reading Artificial Intelligence from a Psychological Perspective This was part of my final portfolio for Fiction and Poetry Writing II with Amy Eisner. Carlos Macasaet Espresso
The demitasse The vermouth At last your essence This was part of my final portfolio for Fiction and Poetry Writing II with Amy Eisner. Carlos Macasaet Confession of Citizen 623589
A foreigner was caught trespassing on the palace grounds last month. His neck did not bear the number that uniquely identifies all living citizens of the state. He carried no papers and he spoke no language that anyone could understand. He was promptly arrested and my supervisor, citizen 392332, put me in charge of his incarceration. He would be the first prisoner to be entirely in my charge. At first, I thought this was a test because a citizen in my range is not usually permitted such responsibilities. Perhaps my superiors suspected me of plotting against the state and wanted to observe me closer. Perhaps they wanted to make sure I was not shirking my duties and so they brought in a spy, who carefully concealed the identification number that usually shows prominently on the back of the neck and uniquely identifies each living citizen. I had heard of such things being done before. With treason on the rise, the state has had more reason to spy on its citizens. I also know that certain high-ranking citizens use a technique to conceal their identification numbers when they travel abroad. However, it is impossible to conceal the markings permanently and they begin to show again within a month’s time. I dismissed the notion that he might be a spy when I realised that all of the higher-ranking citizens that worked in the prisons had their hands full now that our prisons housed nearly a third of the state’s population. Either way, it was quite an honour to have a prisoner of my own. I would treat this matter with the utmost care and attention to detail. Would you believe it I wrote this during the second semester of my junior year at Johns Hopkins University for Social Psychology with Dr. Stephen Drigotas. Carlos Macasaet On Carrying a Red Fuzzy Purse
Introduction Social norms are a thing that we seem to overlook, yet something that plays a rather significant role in our lives. I imagine that many norms or conventions arise out of practicality, for example, facing a certain direction in the elevator. After that, I suspect that they become conventions out of a combination of social comparison and social learning. When we do not know how we are supposed to behave in certain situations, we look to others for cues on what to do. Also, once we have seen how others behave, we are more likely to imitate them if there were no adverse social consequences. It is probably also important to note whose conventions we follow. It is probably the case that we are more likely to follow conventions of people that are similar to us or people that we look up to. |
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