Absolutely. One of the best ones is dead. I'll go through them all more thoroughly, but you should put this into your playlist to replace the discarded dupe.

Any video in the brain channel should provide some info about how brains or minds work. Basically, the idea is to filter out demonstrations of mental behavior and include explanations of it. I didn't want the channel to be a collection of card tricks, optical illusions, and Derren Brown style mind tricks. Manipulating a sensory system (however wonderfully surprising), doesn't necessarily help describe the system. Of course, certain demonstrations of mental or neurological activity do help define their function. A behavioral change arising after some specific neuropatholgy, for instance, at the very least gives some indication of how that neural system is organized.

Any vid describing animal, or synthetic, minds and brains is welcome, so long as it helps inform the viewer about how such systems work.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Just wondering if there's anything in http://www.videosift.com/playlists/schmawy/Animal-Intelligence that would qualify for your channel?

hey - thanks for that. You left the chat room before I could finish my long-winded reply.

I edited the tags on your vid - replaced 'MRI' and 'CT' with 'SPECT', the type of imaging they were using. It's a variant of PET imaging. And I added alcohol to the list of drugs. Gotta have alcohol.

I didn't want to vote for it at first, because there were a couple of bits of misinformation. But the brain channel needs all it can get - and the vid does describe brain function and neuropathology. The bit about the reduced motivation due to decreased temporal lobe activity really struck me the most. I won't say it's completely wrong, but motivation is primarily a function of the frontal lobes (think R. P. McMurphy after his frontal lobotomy).

Anyway, thanks for the contribution - I'm having a hard enough time just getting folks to go through their sifted vids to add to the channel. I wonder if my choice was a little too narrow. Maybe I'll pull a choggie and give the channel to nibiyabi to run more broadly and I'll create another.

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
I shopped for your channel this morning. http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Effects-of-Drugs-On-the-Brain

Hi - just wanted to personally thank you for relinquishing the 'brain' subdomain. Got anything you'd like promoted?

sweet - thanks!

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Okay- I got the go-ahead from brain.

I'll go create the channel for you now. Then you can modify the details as you wish.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
What makes you think it's old SP? The brain account has been around since 2006. Is it possible he switched personalities on us back then?

I was just kidding. Brain was Snake's old "buddy" in the movie - the guy with the map of the 69th st. bridge.

heh, no I don't play - I just love the sound of horns.

In reply to this comment by wazant:
Wow, lots of trombone vids in your PQ. You play 'bone? (I do!) You might also like: http://www.videosift.com/video/How-its-made-Trombones

Well, it really is the most logical choice for the channel. mindbrain.videosift.com is cumbersome at best, and mind.videosift.com, besides being somewhat vague, isn't really appropriate, since the channel is really devoted more towards brain science than psychology or philosophy of mind. Perhaps the user would be willing to use "thebrain" if he or she ever goes charter?

On a side note, I wonder if that user is a reincarnation of SnakePlissken?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
It's another member's username. Usernames are reserved by default in case they ever go charter and want their nick for their subdomain.

Can you come up with an alternative? If you absolutely must have brain, let me know and if user brain doesn't intend to ever go charter or doesn't care to not have the subdomain, I can make it work for you.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Thanks for the info. One problem though - it says my chosen subdomain name, "brain", is reserved or already used. But when I navigate to brain.videosift.com, I get a 404. Is siftbot reserving that domain for his future consciousness?

Thanks for the info. One problem though - it says my chosen subdomain name, "brain", is reserved or already used. But when I navigate to brain.videosift.com, I get a 404. Is siftbot reserving that domain for his future consciousness?


In reply to this comment by lucky760:
The only thing that can't be changed is the subdomain name. Everything else can be adjusted at will.

You can put anything in the sidebar that is not "harmful." For example, you could add a video (scaled down to fit), an image, some simple text, a meebo chat embed, etc.

Invocation is the only method to add videos.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
So, I'm getting ready to create a channel. I decided on "Mind & Brain". I have a few questions, though, before I submit the form.

Can I change the description after creation?

What sort of things can I put in the sidebar panel, and can I change that after creation?

Is there any easy way to add videos to the channel besides the manual invocation on each appropriate video that I find?

So, I'm getting ready to create a channel. I decided on "Mind & Brain". I have a few questions, though, before I submit the form.

Can I change the description after creation?

What sort of things can I put in the sidebar panel, and can I change that after creation?

Is there any easy way to add videos to the channel besides the manual invocation on each appropriate video that I find?

Saturday morning just before we were chatting. We were focusing on #50 though.
Busy times - three diamonds in less than week, and a few more coming soon, I think.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Diamond? Woot! When did that happen?

Well, the talk was given in feb 2003 - the Human Genome Project had only just finished the "complete" map of human dna. Also, I think the main thrust of the talk was about reprogramming. It seems epigenetics would be only tangentially relevant as a modulator of code, not the code itself. But I don't really know that much about it. Anyway, hope you liked it.

In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
Has some good lines at 10min.

What about epigenetics? Its 2008, not 1998; its weird to talk about the importance of genetics and barely mention the next level of complication.

ya think?

You're supposed to be in KC in 3 hours or so, and you're dickin' around on VS? Why haven't you swallowed a handful of mushrooms to guarantee your ineligibility?!!?

Good luck today - hope you get to go to Hawaii.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
$50 says it's choggie again.

Nice post - don't forget to vote for your own video (and any others you find that you like)!

bug?

You've bookmarked it and playlisted it, so all that's left to do is vote for it.

[edit] thanks dude!