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please, leave your brain where it is

A while ago, I took a look into an idea of the Technological Singularity that looks towards a future in which the human mind will reside as pure information within a complex network of computers. Since...

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when bleeding edge science gets it wrong

Everybody talks about the cutting edge when they want to say that something is the latest and greatest thing in science or technology. Fewer people talk about the bleeding edge, those experimental...

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why you’re probably intuitively wrong

Back in May, I wrote a post about the myriad of problems with the concept of mind uploading and contrasting the differences between human brains and computers. As you can probably imagine,...

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the curious case of a skeptical bait and switch

Gerontologist and philosopher Raymond Tallis has a lengthy article browbeating neuroscience in the latest edition of New Humanist. Though he starts out by advocating caution in using neurology beyond...

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taking brain mapping to the next level

At the University of California at San Diego, neurologists are working on a project that seems straight out of a mad scientist’s handbook. They want to build nothing less than a library of dissected...

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how to speak your mind, literally.

Talking brains have been a staple of science fiction and comic books, usually taking the role of villains using their considerable intellect to destroy or conquer the world and implying that nerds with...

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transhumanists at h+ vs. a skeptical biologist

H+ Magazine tends to be very enthusiastic about the Technological Singularity espoused by Ray Kurzweil and transhumanists who like his ideas, so it caught my eye to find an article rather critical of...

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taking a peek into the minds of evildoers

A company called WeCU Technologies wants to read what’s on your mind. Literally. But don’t worry, they’re not interested in your opinions on political hot button topics or your personal information....

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achieving transcendence with brain surgery

Want to get closer to your supernatural deity of choice? You could spend years memorizing holy books, scrolls purported to contain ancient wisdom, and study dense, esoteric tomes filled with endless...

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yet another spawn of quantum consciousness

Today’s pseudoscience often uses the word quantum as a substitute for magic, a kind of deus ex machina of woo which exploits a complex discipline in physics to argue that literally anything is possible...

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how evolution shapes brains and microchips

What do brains and computer chips have in common? Not that much. Sure both use electricity, but in neurons the origin of electrical pulses is chemical while for computer chips it comes from electrical...

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putting visual recognition software to the test

Look around you for a second. In front of you there’s probably a computer, your fingers are on a keyboard or a mouse, and maybe there are cars driving by outside your window on tree-lined streets, or...

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taking cyborg technology to the next level

Today, there’s a very promising future for cyborg technology in the medical field. By allowing patients who had strokes that disabled their bodies, or suffered from accidents that left them paralyzed...

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defining the limits of whole brain emulation

Here’s a quick WoWT trivia question for you. Who is Henry Markram and when was the last time he appeared on this blog? Did you say he was a neuroscientist working on an IBM project to accurately map...

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why we rule the land of the blind robots

We might not be able to beat a natural language search engine or a supercomputer able to crunch every last possible move in a game of chess, but there’s one area where we easily leave just about any...

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moving one inch closer to real world wetware

One of the classic ideas in science fiction is the concept of wetware, a hybrid of biology and electronics which would allow just about any living thing with a brain to hook up to a machine and carry...

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measuring our brains with the wrong ruler

There are many things at which North Korea is really, really incompetent. It’s bad at launching rockets. It’s bad at even trying to appease its populace. It’s rulers are incapable of staying in power...

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taking a peek into the minds of evildoers

A company called WeCU Technologies wants to read what’s on your mind. Literally. But don’t worry, they’re not interested in your opinions on political hot button topics or your personal information....

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achieving transcendence with brain surgery

Want to get closer to your supernatural deity of choice? You could spend years memorizing holy books, scrolls purported to contain ancient wisdom, and study dense, esoteric tomes filled with endless...

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yet another spawn of quantum consciousness

Today’s pseudoscience often uses the word quantum as a substitute for magic, a kind of deus ex machina of woo which exploits a complex discipline in physics to argue that literally anything is...

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