Here, David and Amelia explore spatial understanding– how we can position ourselves in space, what our brains do to enable that process, and what implications this might have.

References and Additional Resources:

• Robot motion:
  • https://bostondynamics.com/about/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ
• Moral dilemma games:
  • https://www.moralmachine.net/
    • MIT researches self driving car moral dilemmas
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/773830/Dr_Trolleys_Problem/
    • Cute indie game with trolley problems and self driving car
    • Let’s play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlg-HRRQUk0
• Crowd-sourcing science problems:
  • https://scistarter.org/foldit, https://fold.it/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing#In_science
• Hippocampal cells which may respond to the idea of a particular person (whether their written name, in costume, or just a photo of them):
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-cells-searching-for-jennifer-aniston-neuron/
    • The extent of this doesn’t seem clear.

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