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My dog, Lacy, shows me unconditional love. Dogs only know love towards others. They are always so happy to see others and they are best at making others feel happy and loved.

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Norman Reedus has taught me to love myself. He constantly makes me happy through everything he does. He is such a role model to me because of the type of person he is. He believes in equality for everyone and he promotes only love. I do the best that I can to meet him every year so I can thank him for everything he does for me.

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Margaret Fuller is a Transcendentalist Poet. In her poem, "The One in All", she talks about how love is complicated and that we should be kind to one another. Men and women are equal and we should learn to support and love each other.

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There are who separate the eternal light

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Emerson believes that the importance in our lives is to be compassionate to others and help others. Not to just be happy with ourselves, but to make others feel happy as well.

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Thoreau is telling us that we should strive to be our best selves. We should aim to always be a better person. Being a good and kind person is very important to him. He believed in kindness towards others.

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In this quote, Emerson is stressing the importance of happiness and how it can change our lives. To be angry is to be frustrated. Even though it can be hard to overcome our anger, we must try so peace may spread throughout everyone.

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This song is about appreciating yourself and getting exactly what you want. You should never think twice about what you want. Just go out and get it. We don't need a significant other to fulfill our needs and happiness. Yourself is enough. Your friends are enough. Happiness is earned and fought for.

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Ariana Grande - 7 rings (Official Video)

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Henry David Thoreau truly believed in the idea that our brain can overcome its limitations and grow its knowledge and power. In the play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail", he pushes Ellen to overcome her brains limitations and put her hand into the river and touch the bottom.

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Imagine trying to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you need, and you're a pro at writing your own name. Still, this task is very difficult for most people. That's because it requires the brain to perform a mental transformation that it's not familiar with: using what it sees in the mirror to accurately guide your hand to write backward.

MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its poor performance in tasks that require this kind of complicated transformation. As it also does in other types of situations where it has little confidence in its own judgments, the brain attempts to overcome its difficulties by relying on previous experiences.

"If you're doing something that requires a harder mental transformation, and therefore creates more uncertainty and more variability, you rely on your prior beliefs and bias yourself toward what you know how to do well, in order to compensate for that variability," says Mehrdad Jazayeri, the Robert A. Swanson Career Development Professor of Life Sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the study.

This strategy actually improves overall performance, the researchers report in their study, which appears in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Nature Communications. Evan Remington, a McGovern Institute postdoc, is the paper's lead author, and technical assistant Tiffany Parks is also an author on the paper.
Noisy computations
Neuroscientists have known for many decades that the brain does not faithfully reproduce exactly what the eyes see or what the ears hear. Instead, there is a great deal of "noise" -- random fluctuations of electrical activity in the brain, which can come from uncertainty or ambiguity about what we are seeing or hearing. This uncertainty also comes into play in social interactions, as we try to interpret the motivations of other people, or when recalling memories of past events.

Previous research has revealed many strategies that help the brain to compensate for this uncertainty. Using a framework known as Bayesian integration, the brain combines multiple, potentially conflicting pieces of information and values them according to their reliability. For example, if given information by two sources, we'll rely more on the one that we believe to be more credible.

In other cases, such as making movements when we're uncertain exactly how to proceed, the brain will rely on an average of its past experiences. For example, when reaching for a light switch in a dark, unfamiliar room, we'll move our hand toward a certain height and close to the doorframe, where past experience suggests a light switch might be located.

All of these strategies have been previously shown to work together to increase bias toward a particular outcome, which makes our overall performance better because it reduces variability, Jazayeri says.

Noise can also occur in the mental conversion of sensory information into a motor plan. In many cases, this is a straightforward task in which noise plays a minimal role -- for example, reaching for a mug that you can see on your desk. However, for other tasks, such as the mirror-writing exercise, this conversion is much more complicated.

"Your performance will be variable, and it's not because you don't know where your hand is, and it's not because you don't know where the image is," Jazayeri says. "It involves an entirely different form of uncertainty, which has to do with processing information. The act of performing mental transformations of information clearly induces variability."

That type of mental conversion is what the researchers set out to explore in the new study. To do that, they asked subjects to perform three different tasks. For each one, they compared subjects' performance in a version of the task where mapping sensory information to motor commands was easy, and a version where an extra mental transformation was required.

In one example, the researchers first asked participants to draw a line the same length as a line they were shown, which was always between 5 and 10 centimeters. In the more difficult version, they were asked to draw a line 1.5 times longer than the original line.

The results from this set of experiments, as well as the other two tasks, showed that in the version that required difficult mental transformations, people altered their performance using the same strategies that they use to overcome noise in sensory perception and other realms. For example, in the line-drawing task, in which the participants had to draw lines ranging from 7.5 to 15 centimeters, depending on the length of the original line, they tended to draw lines that were closer to the average length of all the lines they had previously drawn. This made their responses overall less variable and also more accurate.

"This regression to the mean is a very common strategy for making performance better when there is uncertainty," Jazayeri says.
Noise reduction
The new findings led the researchers to hypothesize that when people get very good at a task that requires complex computation, the noise will become smaller and less detrimental to overall performance. That is, people will trust their computations more and stop relying on averages.

"As it gets easier, our prediction is the bias will go away, because that computation is no longer a noisy computation," Jazayeri says. "You believe in the computation; you know the computation is working well."

The researchers now plan to further study whether people's biases decrease as they learn to perform a complicated task better. In the experiments they performed for the Nature Communications study, they found some preliminary evidence that trained musicians performed better in a task that involved producing time intervals of a specific duration.

The research was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, the Simons Foundation, the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, and the McGovern Institute.

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intelligence; neuroscience; brain injury; brain-computer interfaces; perception; disorders and syndromes; child development; mental health

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Study reveals how the brain overcomes its own limitations: Strategies to compensate for uncertainty help the brain succeed at difficult mental computations

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Imagine trying to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you need, and you're a pro at writing your own name. Still, this task is very difficult for most people.

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Honey Bees are such an important part of nature and our earth. We need to protect them so they can help us and continue to help our planet. Nature is such a scared beauty that needs to be protected from people who want to destroy it. In order to appreciate nature we must become "one with nature".

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This podcast addresses topics that are ignored or dismissed by the media. It is important to acknowledge these topics and emphasize the fact that everyone is equal and everyone's issues are equal. These hardworking people deserve to have their stories shared with the public in order to inspire others and show what hard work really is.

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EQUAL TIME is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media-mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.

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Henry David Thoreau is very anti war. He even went to jail for the longest time because he refused to pay his taxes, which would go to funding the Mexican American War. He did not want his money going towards something that he did not believe in. He believed that there was nothing good about war and that it would not solve our issues and problems. Killing each other does not bring peace.

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Trump is a person who spreads not love, but only hate. He divides people and makes others feel less than. We need to keep using our voices and standing up to him because he does not want to "make america great again", he wants to destroy it. He does not have the ability to see and know that all people are equal. Instead he detains separates those who are different. Transcendentalism is about fighting for whats right and trying to make a change in this world. That is exactly what we need to do in order to unite our country once again.

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Thoreau did not believe in slavery. He believed that all people are equal and deserve equal rights. He even helped a former slave escape and find himself. He believed that no one was another person's property. Everyone is their own person and has their own identity.

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Everybody by Logic
"Hell of a long way from equal is how they treat us
Body of a builder with the mind of a fetus
Turn on the television and see the vision they feed us
And I wish I could erase that, face facts"

This song is about having our own thoughts and visions and feelings. We will not be brainwashed by other people's views. We should not conform to other people's ideas of how we should live. We should be our own, individual selves.

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America by Logic
"Everybody come and get up, get on
And no matter what you fighting for I promise that it’ll live on"

This song is about standing up for your beliefs and fighting to change America. He is telling us to speak up and make our voices heard. We cannot let this man (Donald Trump) ruin this country and tear people apart.

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Take it back by Logic
"Take it back, take it way back
Take it way way back to the first black man
Long ago before the white man could paint
The black man with a gun in his hand"

This song is about racism and discrimination and how we are all equal no matter our race, gender, sexual orientation, ect.
We must understand where we came from and find ourselves through society and nature.

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This quote by Emerson is that it matters more of who we are as people rather than our past actions or future actions. It is important to be the best version of yourself. Everyone is so special and unique and we should celebrate ourselves and love ourselves.