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The Connected Mind: From the Neuronal to the Social Synapse (Table of Contents)

This monograph attempts at understanding how the mind emerges in a process of self-organized complexity involving a number of interacting complex systems, among which we focus principally on the hierarchy of neuronal networks in the brain. At the same time, it looks at the complex structural and functional organization of the mind, in which the vast social web of interacting minds plays a pivotal role. [self-published at www.researchgate.net, DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.13140/RG.2.2.21497.43367 ]    Click here for Table of Contents 
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Jagadish Chandra Bose. জগদীশচন্দ্র : ভারতীয় বিজ্ঞানের অতৃপ্ত আত্মা

This article, written in Bengali, was first published in 2009, and has been published on two more occasions with minor alterations. An attempt to understand the great pioneer of Indian science whose path was thorny and full of twists........    Click here to read  
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The Critical Brain: Does the Mind operate at the Edge of Chaos?

  What exactly does it mean to say that the mind operates at the edge of chaos?......   Click here to read  
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(Introspection on election results, 2026 May; in Bengali) নির্বাচনী ফল (2026)

  A personal perception of what the assembly election results of May, 2026, tells us....    Click here to read 
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L. D. Landau: the freak genius and the ‘scientist slave’

[ This short article on Landau, the great Soviet physicist, was written in 2014 for an earlier blog of mine; I reproduce it here for visitors to the present site as an introduction to the towering intellect that never knew how to stop half way. My homage to a man who had so many dimensions to his soaring mind.]   Click here to read 
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Theory of Evolution: The Epigenetic Turn

Is the Modern Synthesis the last word in the Theory of Evolution initiated by Darwin and his contemporaries? Almost unknown to a generation, the theory of Regulatory Evolution, involving changes in the Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN's), has opened up a                                            vast terrain beyond the Modern Synthesis.    Click here to read
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The Idea of Truth

Truth is no simple thing. Men have staked their life for truth, and many will doubtless do so again and again in the future, but still there is no general agreement among thinkers on what truth really is. Is truth absolute or is it relative? Do we discover it in a mind-independent reality, or do we construct it in our mind? Why do people concur on scientific findings but endlessly confront one another on simple matters of fact in our social life?   ............   Click here to read.  
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