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Roger Bingham is a public intellectual, science educator, author and television host based in La Jolla, California. He is co-founder and director of The Science Network (TSN), a virtual forum dedicated to science and its impact on society. TSN currently offers free access to over 1100 videos. Bingham is also the creator of the celebrated Beyond Belief conferences. Bingham developed the Science and Society Unit at the Los Angeles PBS station, KCET.〔(Biomarine: Roger Bingham )〕 There, he wrote, produced and presented the ''Frontiers of the Mind'' series, which included "The Addicted Brain", "The Sexual Brain", "The Time of Our Lives", and "Inside Information",〔(Holdings: Frontiers of the Mind )〕 programs which have been broadcast in multiple countries and languages. Bingham also co-wrote and hosted the PBS television series ''The Human Quest'' (1996). Philip Hefner wrote in ''The Christian Century'' that "it provides a benchmark of the minimal scientific knowledge all informed persons should possess (...) Bingham and his PBS series represent the best and brightest of Western scientific intelligence today."〔Stories Science Tells: Defining the Human Quest by Philip Hefner, The Christian Century ()〕 ''The Human Quest'' episode ''The Nature Of Human Nature'' won a Writers Guild of America Award.〔〔 He has co-authored the international best-selling novel, ''Wild Card'' (1974) and ''The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self'' (Harmony, 2002). From 1995-96, Bingham was a Visiting Associate at Caltech in the laboratory of evolutionary neuroscientist, John Allman and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UC Santa Barbara (co-directed by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides). Bingham and Peggy La Cerra presented an alternative to the model of evolutionary psychology, first in a paper in ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'',〔The adaptive nature of the human neurocognitive architecture: An alternative model, PNAS ()〕 then in ''The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self''. This model was based on the concept of adaptive representational networks (ARN). According to this theory, these networks encode the history of an individual's behavioral successes and failures in relationship to the energy costs of any particular behavior. Hence, memory becomes an accounting mechanism for computing the energy costs of behavior.〔(Human Nature Review, 2000, Vol 3, 440-447 )〕 La Cerra and Bingham called this model "Theoretical Evolutionary Neuroscience".〔 After the publication of ''The Origin of Minds'', Bingham turned his attention to developing a platform for science education and communication. In 2003, with Terry Sejnowski, he initiated the project that became known as The Science Network.〔(Wired: Are You Ready for Some Science? )〕 The launch of The Science Network was a landmark Symposium and Town Hall meeting, ''Stem cells: science, ethics and politics at the crossroads'', held at the Salk Institute in 2004.〔(Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads )〕〔(Inside Salk 11 04 )〕 Roger Bingham serves as the director of The Science Network. Bingham is currently an affiliate of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies〔(Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute )〕 and the Institute for Neural Computationat UC San Diego.〔(Institute for Neural Computation Core Faculty )〕 Bingham is also a member of the Director's Council, UC San Diego Center for Brain Activity Mapping (C-BAM)〔(Director's Council, UC San Diego Center for Brain Activity Mapping )〕 and an Executive Committee member of the UCSD Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC).〔(Executive Committee of the UCSD Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center )〕 He is a member of the Board of Advisers of ''Scientific American''.〔(''Scientific Americans Board of Advisers )〕 ==Books== * ''The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self'' (2002) Peggy La Cerra and Roger Bingham * ''Wild Card'' (1974) Raymond Hawkey and Roger Bingham 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Bingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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