Author: Josh Lee (Curious_Lee)

Tufts Senior majoring in Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Biology, and Computer Science with a minor in Philosophy and the Chief Content Editor for Tufts Breakthrough! I am currently working in Professor Jacob's Human Computer Interaction Lab and will be starting projects in Professor Race's Integrative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and Professor Scheutz's Human Robot Interaction Lab. I have previously worked at Professor Miczek's Psychopharmacology Lab, Professor Weisz's Harvard Lab for Youth Mental Health, Professor Bedell's Occupational Therapy Lab, Professor Lee's SNU Neurophysiology Lab, Professor Kim's Yonsei Human Computer Interaction Lab and Professor Kim's Herbal Pharmacology Lab at KyungHee University School of Oriental Medicine. I love talking about ethics, neuroscience, deep learning, biology, clinical psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophical issues and problems (such as the hard problem of consciousness) and any other research/fields/knowledge people are passionate about! From Seoul, Korea
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Tufts Professor Receives a Boost from Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

Regeneration of anatomy is foreign to humans, yet common in nature. When a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly, it destroys its neural structure to form a new brain. A flatworm Planaria can be cut to 250 pieces, and every piece will regenerate the necessary body parts to become an independent organism. Its tail will regrow a head, while its head will regrow a tail. However, … Continue reading Tufts Professor Receives a Boost from Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

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Call for a Mutual Understanding of Scientific Research

Research carries unprecedented validity and authority in today’s rapidly advancing society, where we are constantly looking for the next big breakthrough or some knowledge that is completely counterintuitive to our intuitions. Each week, we hear about how there is a new treatment for a previously incurable disease or how we are at the brink of deciphering the mysteries of the brain. With a growing discrepancy … Continue reading Call for a Mutual Understanding of Scientific Research

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Why is traditional altruism so ineffective?

While this question may sound like what you would hear in philosophy classes, Harvard’s Psychology Professor Joshua Greene took an experimental approach to respond, using the development of neural imaging techniques and the discovery of synaptic plasticity. By incorporating new neuroscience technology, Greene was able to embark his journey in a new field of psychology research, moral cognition, which explores the underlying cognitive mechanisms of moral … Continue reading Why is traditional altruism so ineffective?

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Next step for Neuroscience: Neurobiological engineering (part 2)

Breakthrough had the privilege of listening to Dr. Jasanoff and Dr. Boyden speak at Sidney Pacific Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture at MIT, where they introduced the history of neuroimaging, limits and challenges of the current techniques, and the future role they hope neurobiological engineering will take in order to deepen our understanding of the brain. Part one will introduce the professors and give an overview of the history … Continue reading Next step for Neuroscience: Neurobiological engineering (part 2)

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Next step for Neuroscience: Neurobiological engineering (part 1)

Breakthrough had the privilege of listening to Dr. Jasanoff and Dr. Boyden speak at Sidney Pacific Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture at MIT, where they introduced the history of neuroimaging, limits and challenges of the current techniques, and the future role they hope neurobiological engineering will take in order to deepen our understanding of the brain. Part one will introduce the professors and give an overview of the history … Continue reading Next step for Neuroscience: Neurobiological engineering (part 1)

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Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 3)

This is part three of a three-part series taken from an interview between Professor Matthias Scheutz, the director of the Tufts Human-Robot Interaction Lab, and Breakthrough’s Josh Lee. You can read Part One here and Part Two here. Q) Socially autonomous robots with moral competence, as you have stated in your papers, seem to be computationally possible and could indeed be materialized in the future. … Continue reading Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 3)

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Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 2)

This is part two of a three-part series taken from an interview between Professor Matthias Scheutz, the director of the Tufts Human-Robot Interaction Lab, and Breakthrough’s Josh Lee. You can read Part One here. Q) Your lab is made up of many researchers that hold interdisciplinary degrees. What does this tell us about interdisciplinary collaborations of research that seem to be becoming a norm today? … Continue reading Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 2)

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Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 1)

Professor Matthias Scheutz, the director of the Tufts Human-Robot Interaction Lab, is currently investigating the moral competence of computational architectures. Breakthrough had the opportunity to sit down with him and discuss his views of human morality, how morality applies to robots and artificial intelligences, and how these come together when humans and robots interact with one another. Part 2 and 3 of this interview will be released … Continue reading Modeling Moral Competence in Robots: Interview with Professor Scheutz (Part 1)

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