TROPICAL SYNAPSES
Reflections on topics including clinical neurology, recent publications in neuroscience,
philosophy of biology, "neuro-doubt" about modern media hype of new neuro-scientific procedures and methods, consciousness, scuba diving, horticulture, jazz, blues, slack key guitar music, the Hawai'i health scene, and whatever else dat's da kine...
Here's a new family video. Includes wife Maryruth, daughter Amanda, and daughter's boyfriend Eric.
Hanau ka Ulua, hanau ka Hahalua i ke kai la holo...
--from Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation story ballad
Last week, we dove Kona side of the Big Island, near the airport, via a boat tour with Big Island Divers. The water was calm, with very little surge. This makes for ideal manta ray night diving.
*Ulua: Caranx ignobilis
*Hahalua: Manta birostris
Where is the color of what we see? Is it part of the object we see? Is it in the light from that object? Is it in our eyes, our retinas? O...
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