consciousness meter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/21consciousness.html

this is awesome if we could measure the degree of consciousness like temperature...
they try to measure it based on the information amount in the subject's brain.
if lots of information flows, the brain is very conscious, otherwise, not so much.
i guess this idea or approach is closely related to Dr. Olaf Sporns' research,
which is to make a map of the brain network based on information flow.

anyway, recently, i see a lot of application of information theory to brain science
or even psychology...

maybe i am on the right track... ^^

In Search of Memory

"In Search of Memory" by Eric R. Kandel, winner of the Nobel prize.

a well written summary of neuroscience... with focus on memory.
and his life experience and wisdom.

i should have read this book earlier...
then it could have changed my research and even my life.

this is a must read to engineering or science students...

Henri Poincaré

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincaré

"creativity and invention consist of two mental stages, 
first random combinations of possible solutions to a problem, followed by a critical evaluation."
according to Poincaré's two stages.

Paul Erdos...

the followings are copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős

Other idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary include:

• children were referred to as "epsilons";
• women were "bosses";
• men were "slaves";
• people who stopped doing math had "died";
• people who physically died had "left";
• alcoholic drinks were "poison";
• music was "noise";
• people who had married were "captured";
• people who had divorced were "liberated";
• to give a mathematical lecture was "to preach" and
• to give an oral exam to a student was "to torture" him/her.