. >> and one of the big challenges is that trying to cope with neuroscience is like -- i mean, this is -- >> tell me about it. >> it seems bigger than the universe, you know? so all we can do is do a sampling of some of the projects and we thought, well, let's start out with mapping. it's not -- it's not everything but it serves as kind of a foundation. let's talk to some of the people who are trying to map the brain in different ways. >> rose: we continue this evening with the director of the new film "philomena" starring steve coogan and dame judi dench. >> john huston used to direct and you can hear -- you know, you can hear the music in it, you can hear the conviction in it. and you hear the shape and the musicality and it's -- it's a ridiculous thing about the cinema but it's more interesting than the faces. i've known lots of people who it's just listening. and you can hear when it's right. >> rose: we conclude with alexis ohanian, the co-founder of reddit. his new book is called "without their permission." >> and while the internet and this technology is not a magic wand, what i

one of the big challenges is trying to cope with neuroscience -- it seems bigger than the universe. all we could do was do a sampling of some of the projects. we thought, let's start out with mapping. it's not everything, but it serves as kind of a foundation. let's talk to some of the people who are trying to map the brain in different ways. the question was whether we were going to start sort of at the level of the electronic microscope or at the level of the whole human brain. the whole human brain is something people relate to immediately because they have one. >> we know about the mapping of the human genome. give me your sense as a neuroscientist of the significance of the things that he reported. >> i think the significance of this is several fold. one is, we want to understand how the human brain works. the key to understanding is how the different components interact. many people have been looking at this from a variety of perspectives. this particular study moves it forward in the following way. one is, it is very systematic. it doesn't take the three of us, it takes 1200

neuroscience can help eliminate the issue. >>> and lots of people call bs on their politicians. somebody in france actually went a step further. >>> but first, here's my take. president obama gave a much-anticipated speech on friday, outlining reforms in the american government's surveillance activities. before i give you my reaction to the speech, i want to give you some context. the american government and many american companies are routinely the targets of cyber attacks from all over the world. for example, the national nuclear security administration, which is an arm of the energy department and monitors america's nuclear power plants, was the target of 10 million cyber attacks every day in 2012. by contrast, in 2011 there were 44 million. look at phone records, e-mails. others are efforts to disrupture normal life or kill civilians. last year, the head of the fbi testified that cyber attacks from foreign sources often include terrorist groups had surpassed traditional terrorism as the single most threat to the united states. i'm trying to remind you that this debate about

modern neuroscience there's no soul. the soul is a fiction. there's just the brain.the problem that creates is to figure out how the brain creates feeling, thought, wishing, longing, falling in love and all these subjective state of minds that we think of as consciousness. how does that happen? nobody knows. and there's all sorts of immense amount of activity going on to map brains and figure out these -- >> rose: there's a huge story about in the the "new york times" this last couple weeks. >> so i have a separate thought about that. it's wonderful work and if it can figure out what to do about parkinson's disease or alzehimer's disease, that's terrific. >> rose: that's primarily what the motivation is. >> i understand and it's noble and it's necessary. but i've just projected in this book to the point where andrew suggestses supposing we do figure out how the brain works? if that happens then we can build a computer that has consciousness. movie stuff but there are actually some serious people in this field who believe that theoretically that's possible. well, if t

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. >> he is a neurosciences? >> a cognitive sciences. scientist. suffers from a fact that all his life he has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. incident, he administered medicine, the wrong medicine. responsiblehe was for the car crash that killed the driver. he has this trial of awful things. feelagines he is unable to anything. it is a self-delusion. he is very feeling. >> you make no distinction between real and imagined. >> that is correct. that is one of the roles i have broken. you do not know what he is imagining or whether he is reporting on what actually happened. there is the convention of the unreliable narrator. this really takes it to an extreme. book does teste the reader. it judges the reader. i just think that fiction can be too comfortable. it is the most conservative of the arts. what has happened historically in music, like in the rites of spring, and art, the impressionist began. abstractt's, expressionism. there were these enormous changes. >> revolutionary and evolutionary. >> fiction hasn't moved that much. postmoderne t

i got quite an education not only about neuroscience, the society.ings thater of yell and columbia. >> you begin your book talking about a human experiment that you recently did. explain that. this particular experiment was featured in "the new york times" recently. i had read the literature, the animal literature showing when you allow an animal to self administer, press a level to receive intravenous injections of cocaine, they will do so until they die. but then when i look at the literature more carefully, if you provide that animal with a sexually receptive mage, with some sweet treats like sugar water or something of that nature, a would not take the drug. they would engage in those other activities. i thought it would be interesting to find out whether or not crack cocaine addicts could also have their drug taking behavior altered or changed by providing an alternative. in that experiment, we used as low as five dollar cash and when you do that, you can see they will take the cash about half -- >> explain the scene. >> you have a person, you b

more progressive of us to revise election policies to be in keeping with the new knowledge of neuroscience, psychology, medical science. the american academy of paediatrics, in a recent policy statement urged schools to keep pace with modern media and be more selective in what they are choosing because of the ability to harm. >> when you say harm. what kind of harm are you talking about? >> we know that explicit content, violent content is linked to a host of negative outcomes, whether it changes beliefs, aggressive behaviour. we have a crisis with team rape. some of this material validates the lij - legitimizes that. we have young people in the school district coming forward, who have been victims of sexual assault, harassment. things like that. who had been traumatised and were shamed and silence. saying that they didn't want to read the books for the content. i would encourage controversial content in the classroom. we have to protect against harmful content. in terms of introducing literature, is your job as a parent different? i want to mention that the study jill is citing is cited o

. >> rachelle, you have a background in neuroscience, what damage are we looking at with a big collision>> that's interesting. there are thousands of researchers across the country trying to figure it out. some believe there's sheering happening at the ends of neuropathways so the connections between the different parts of the brain are weaker. peopler thinking that you get tears in the tissue which would weaken the structure and function. there's the idea of bruising and temporary damage through swelling. there's a lot. >> there's a lot. >> yes. and a lot of it is temporary. but some of it, you know, could be serious. >> i want my kids to watch. my 8-year-old want to play football. it's huge. i've been trying to explain to him the danger involved. as a mum it's hard for me to watch the shots of the impact. >> what will we see next? i imagine it's an interesting hat that you are putting on. >> next i put on what i deemed the science acto pus to look at -- octopus to look at my brain waves and get a look at the root of what a concussion looks like. >> we want to hear what you think about

. >> it has to do with the interface between the discoveryings that we are a's paging in neuroscienceose discoveries might have an impact on traditional philosophical questions, questions about where does morality come from, how do we page decisions? what is the nature of consciousness, how do we learn about the nature of the external world. >> stephen: there is already a book for that. it's called the bible. (laughter) right? have you read it? have you read it within well, yeah. >> stephen: did you read the bible within little bits and pieces. >> stephen: okay. you don't really understand the world completely yet. all right. book of the revelation covers a lot of this stuff. so our morality does not come from my brain, my brain gets filled with morality within no, it doesn't. >> stephen: okay, hold on a secretary. yes, it does. because we can play that game all day long. >> it turns out that social animals, social mammals of which you are one kind. >> stephen: okay. >> but also there are wolves and baboons and monday kees and chimpanzee. >> stephen: no difference between all of them,

. >> sam nightingale is a young neuroscience invited to speak. he feels the movement has a lot of catching up to do. >> the church, any religion, christian faith in church that's had a lot of times obuild up these wonderful buildings, amazing ceremonies. this has been going for a year. >> the appeal doesn't seem to have spread too much beyond an affluent urban, white base. that is something the movement will have to address if it's to have an enduring mass appeal. but they're spreading the word and enjoying the opportunity. rory talens al jazeera, london. >> let's turn to our meteorologist gee gleel jelila r more. >> ridge of high pressure that's in control across the southwest, exceptional levels of drought, ended 2013 as the dryest year on record not a crowd in sight. unfortunately this pattern not expected to change for a very long time. this is a look at mouth shasta. typically, the surrounding area just blanketed with snow. there's the closer look for you. the snow at the highest ridges of the plt. across the road we are looking at exception

crystal is a molecular neuroscience. she goes to the streets of seattle and santa cruz for a look at how science might stop crime before it happens. lindsay is an ex-cia operator.

to revise our book selection policies to be more in keeping with the new knowledge we have of neuroscience psychology medical science. the american academy of pediatrics has actually in one of their most recent policy statements urged schools to keep pace with modern media, an be more selective in what they are chattanooga choosing, because of the potential for harm, that it has the ability to harm in our district -- >> when you say harm -- hang on, i want to hear from jill. what kind of harm are you talking about? >> we know that explicit content, violent content is linked to a whole host of negative outcomes, whether it changes beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, aggressive behavior we have a real problem in this country with teen rape for instance. some of this material validates that, legitimizes that and it's concerning. we have young people in our school district come forward who have been victims of sexual assault, harassment, things like that who had been traumatized and felt shamed and silenced to come forward, saying we didn't want to read these books because of the content in them. i

crystal is a molecular neuroscience. she goes to the streets of seattle and santa cruz for a look at how science might stop crime before it happens. lindsay is an ex-cia operator. tonight she shows us how mushrooms might one day replace styrofoam packages. i'm phil torres and i'm an entomologist. i study insects in the rain forests of peru. that's our team. now, let's do some science. >>> it has been another fantastic week of science on the road. we've got crystal, lindsay and rita here. we're going to start with you. you were basically a very high-tech firefighter for a week. tell me about this. >> that's right. i was on a story that followed how we use unmanned aircraft to fight the rim fire at yosemite. let me show you. here it is. it's a very unusual-looking piece of technology. it almost looks like an alien insect, and they have it in a hangar. essentially they fly it up to yosemite, and it's eyes in the sky following the rim fire and generating information for action on the ground. so let's check it out. the size a

have another group of people here that are from ucsf as well and this sculpture was designed by neuroscience tift and like i said our group is a mixture of the people from all different backgrounds and scientists and nurses and chefs, and we have a really good mix and we have and so we will be working in collaboration with ourself to create 6 informational displays that will be presented to the public, which will hopefully help explain both the sculptures as well as how this sculpture interacts and how your brain interacts with the world around you. and we will also make contact with the people from the bay lights project that we want to make sure that we first do not take anything away from the project at all with our lights and also that we can do a collaboration with them as well and meeting with them with week. >> and our installation will be certified by a licensed structural engineer and we so far we think that we are going to have or need two ac circuits, driving the 85 led bulbs and we are changing all of the electronics on the sculpture to make sure that they are water front and tam

it's published in nature, neuroscience journal. they tested them over 24 hours. 24 hours. they say it doesn't seem like a long time but that's when you do most of your forgetting. >> the other thing to remember is to not go overboard with it because there's a limit to it. they're saying get the 200 milligrams. that will help your memory but doesn't mean you should have ten cups of coffee and you'll have the best memory ever. >> absolutely right. >>> a special ceremony, by the way, at world famous sistine chapel. pope francis baptizing 32 babies. the pope called each child by name, pouring water on their heads and walking them into the catholic church. at one point he told the mothers to feel free to feed their crying babies if they needed to. in a break from the tradition, he included the child of one couple not married by the church. >>> anyone that takes a ride on the subway here in new york city knows it can be an adventure up. you never really know what you're going to see down there. >> case in point was yesterday as the annual no pants subway ride day event

now in thistrue innovative feel people are focusing on, neuroscience.pen overnight that we will find solutions to these things. group of people together working long enough with the resources to test out all sorts of different theories, and you have to believe sooner or later, we will make a lot of progress. >> how do you measure year-by- year that your money is being used right? class i do not hear it i trust the people i have been fortunate enough to be involved with. there is a three-man group running the columbia institute for the mind and brain. each one of them i is a genius. two of them are noble laureates and the third is the smartest of the three of them. what do you say? you cannot do any better. if you will do anything, and i'm sure it is true of all of my compatriots here, you find people who are really talented and are serious researchers, and you make your bets in that way. they are the people who understand the field and you have to hope you do the right thing and in any event, you will advance it to a greater or lesser degree. it is just

>> well we designed the games with the state of the art behavioral science and neuroscience.um amount of data. as you play you're leaving a footprint, your data footprint. think about it as small bread crumbs. those are indicative of underlying traits and abilities the way you think, problem-solve, emphasize thighs with people or logically or critically think or maybe not. all those things are reflected in the way you play. think about it this way. we are when we play. if we play monopoly or went out and played peaceket ball in better weather, the way we play and interact with each other, and problem-solve, that really draws out who we are. ashley: who decides what the standards are. you put together the program. what are the standards of people that put the game together are different than what a company would like to have when looking for a perspective candidate? >> great question. the game doesn't impose a standard. we're designing the game as a data machine. think about it a very powerful machine that collects massive amount of data in short period of time through engagin

katrina vanden heuvel and carl hart, associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at columbia universityrney of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society." jared, i want to start with you on the pure economics of this question. those were extremely long lines. it looked like black friday out there. i guess i just want to know how much of an economic impact is this really likely to have? i mean, will colorado be different? >> first of all, when an economist sees a line like that we immediately think demand exceeding supply. great insight. right? typically that would lead to higher prices at least in the near term over the longer term you expect more retailers to get into the business, although it's heavily regulate sod there's a wrinkle there. look, the numbers you mentioned are reasonable, sensible numbers based on the kinds of revenues states will achieve from their taxes on the sale of marijuana. but there's a whole other side of savings to state coffers having to do with the savings from no longer enforcing prohibition. in many cases, that amount is si