INSTRUCTIONS

This window has TWO HALVES:  the BLUE HALF to your LEFT and the WHITE HALF with the TEXT you are now reading.

Now. look at the very bottom of the border where the BLUE and WHITE halves meet.  You'll see three tiny icons (a left and right arrow and a little box made of arrows chasing one another.)  Play with them! They control whether these halves are side by side or stacked... also, how big each half is.

If the blue window is on top of the white text window, then the three tiny arrows will be on your extreme right by the text scroll bar.

(scroll bar is to the far right of this white space (or click here and use your mouse wheel))

To navigate in this BRAIN, click any node in the tree (eg  <a class="thought-link" href="brain://api.thebrain.com/akyNevLr4HLQCdW9Q8JcSw/7CIr_bbTqlaDh66Asb9rjQ/Neuroscience">NEUROSCIENCE</a>.)  You can always get back here by clicking <a href="brain://H6A7-gkIFFm7JXouyiVfPg/Instructions">INSTRUCTIONS</a> in the top row of yellow nodes.

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(Bob Blum, MD, PhD - this is my digital brain.  Read about my research at  <a href="http://www.bobblum.com">www.bobblum.com</a>

I've had two careers: 1) as an AI/cogsci researcher and 2) as a physician.

My research career began (after my MD and residency training) in 1976 as a PhD student/ research associate in AI at Stanford. That exploration now continues at Stanford as a perennial student of cognitive neuroscience. That was also my initial PhD focus as a medical student at UCSF and as an undergrad at MIT.  Separately, I had a twenty year career in clinical medicine as an emergency physician working for Kaiser Hospitals in Northern California.

This WebBrain contains a decade of my working notes, at Stanford from 2007 through 2019.

The key feature of this Brain found NO WHERE ELSE: my Stanford lecture notes. These are often "first reveals" of ground-breaking research by the world's top scientists. (Stanford does not allow photos of many research talks but notes are ok.) I strive to take notes like a court reporter: every major idea, but also all the details (the citations, the asides and the jokes.) This is exactly as delivered to audience experts. (My intended audience is other scientists, engineers, and science writers (not casual readers.))

COPYING the TEXT in the NOTES is easy; just drag across the text to highlight it and then press Control + C (in Windows) or Command + C (on a Mac).  You can paste that text into your favorite word processors.  (Note that the usual pop up window (that you're used to seeing when you right click highlighted text) is strangely absent.)

Here you have a TREE  with 12,000 nodes.
(the public half of my total working set.)

Click on ANY node in the blue network to navigate.
The starting nodes I recommend (in yellow) are pinned to the top of the window:  (you can always get back here by clicking <a href="brain://H6A7-gkIFFm7JXouyiVfPg/Instructions">INSTRUCTIONS</a> at the top of the blue window.)

2019 Lectures is a list of the top lectures I attended in 2019. (Also see other years.) Many of these are cutting edge presentations by National Academy members to standing room only crowds. All my notes are attached.

MBCT Mind, Brain, Computation, Technology is where I attend  several lectures each week in the Stanford Psych Department.

AA Alphabetic MBC Indexes is a list of many talks I've attended
 in the past few years.  I've also indexed many Stanford lectures
in neurobiology here. Also see SNI Stfd Neurosci Inst.
 (Note to scholars: it is indexes and not indices.)  (SNI was recently renamed the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute (honoring our benefactors.))

SEARCH: Type a few letters or words into the Search Bar to find items.  (The search bar is the 1cm by 5 cm white rectangle
at the bottom, left corner of the blue window. But, it's usually easiest to just navigate by clicking on nodes in the network.

I keep most of the pdfs for journal articles on my own computer rather than on the WebBrain server, but many are online at the authors academic websites. (I'll happily sign your petition favoring open access and denouncing paywalls. Their work is paid for by US taxpayers via the NIH and the NSF!)

LINKS in the NOTES Window:  In many thought windows (the white half of the screen, where you're now reading)  you'll see a tab at the left upper corner.  Clicking on that tab will open that link on the web. For example, click PSYCHOLOGY, then click on tab labeled Psychology to see Wikipedia.

Downloading My Lecture Notes: Most of the lectures I've attended will have my notes attached. To download that file,  click on the notes.rtf tab and then click the blue and white file icon to the left of the file name.  That should download the rtf file to your machine. The notes are small text files (and are virus-free).   (Or just use Control + C (or Command + C on a Mac) to copy the text you're interested in.)

If you want a psychedelic tour of my brain, right click anywhere in the blue network, then select the option WANDER. (Click any of the pinned yellow nodes at the top to turn off WANDER.)

This is the public portion of my Brain.
You can create your own by going to TheBrain.com.
Their (permanently) free software is quite useful.