Encefalus

Recently I read John Duncan’s "How intelligence happens". It was an interesting book, written from one of the world leading experts in the field.
I a few words, John Duncan believes that the root of intelligence lies mainly in the frontal and parietal complex, in a system he calls the "Multiple Demand System". This system is [...]

Hi there,
Long time, no post as it seems . So, I thought about writing something today. What I want to talk about is academia and the many dysfunctions it faces.
By academia I am referring to the higher education systems which includes universities, scholars, professors, journals etc.
Why does it suck? Well, it doesn’t suck per [...]

Hello there guys (and girls)!
It’s been a month and two days since I wrote my last post. I am really short on time, but as you can see I always write when I have the time and an interesting subject on my hands

My hands
What I want to talk about today is the future [...]

Hello there guys! It’s been about 3 months that I haven’t posted anything! You’ve probably thought I am dead Let me tell you guys (and gals). Encefalus ain’t dead! It’s just been that I’ve been so busy, that I literally didn’t have any time to write one of my traditional long posts. [...]

Hey, I return after nearly missing for a month. This time, I won’t write about my current interests which revolve around computation in social sciences. This time I am writing to revisit politics. Actually, I don’t know why, after a month not having published an article I feel the urge to throw some random rant. [...]

As I had said in my previous post, I am very busy this time. Now, you are going to see why
Lately, I decided to learn more about computation models. This will probably be reseach focus in the upcoming years. I created two models, which I want to present to you. The models were [...]

Hi there guys It’s been a long time that I haven’t written an article. The reason is that I have SO many things to do, that I really don’t have the time to update all my projects as often. Between my new projects, like Raskolnikov’s Dream and Musikality Net, I had to deal [...]

As you may know, I also run two more projects, besides Encefalus.
I am a musician, not only a psychologist, and my first project, can be found here: Raskolnikov’s Dream.

It is a melodic electronica project. In the official site you will find more information and you will be able to listen to samples of my music.
The [...]

Encefalus wishes you a happy new year!! This blog started near the end of july 2008 with a 100 visitors and now has over 140.000 unique visitors! I want to thank you all for your support, e-mails and comments. Let’s hope this year will be better than the last one.
Let there be new synapses into [...]

Stephen Wolfram
Lately I’ve been reading Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science.
Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathematics do, is to quantify problems, find regularities and then use equations to describe these regularities. What this [...]

One of the first articles I had written was this one: Drugs, Guns, Cops and Tasers. I promised to write part 2 some day. There is not better occasion to write this article, than this one.
In the previous Saturday, on 6/12/08, Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered in the greek district of Exarchia in Athens.

Alexandros Grigoropoulos
Since then, [...]

Lately I’ve been digging into the subject of agent based models of social sciences. Agent based models are defined by wikipedia as following

An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals in a network, with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. [...]