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LinkedInThis one was sent to me by a facebook friend, Ms. P.H., and it illustrates another example of what my co-author Scott de Hart and I called "alchemomineral man", the "androgynous" fusion of humanity and mineral in the form of machines, in our book Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas. Brain Computer Interface used to control the movement and actions of an android robot We can see all sorts of applications of this technology: direct brain-robot interfaces with drones, new vistas in remote control for all sorts of applications, by extending through robots the presence of human … [Read more...]
CONTROLLING THE DREAMS OF RATS
September 23, 2012 By
This is one of those articles I think nearly everyone I know sent me, and in my trawling, I found it myself. And it bears pondering very carefully: can we, via technology and careful neurophysiological mapping, actually image the brain to the degree that we can control, in a detailed fashion, its thoughts and dreams? Well, according to this article, we can....well, at least, we can in the case of lab rats: Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats. Could humans be next? One can, as with so many emerging techniques and technologies, imagine two moral paths and … [Read more...]
ROBOTIC SELF-AWARENESS ONE STEP CLOSER?
September 6, 2012 By
This very intriguing, and in its way, disturbing article was brought to my attention by a member of this website (Mr. S.), and it brings to the fore, once again, the deep need for a profound philosophical and cultural discussion on humanity, science, and the future of both: Robot learns to recognise itself in the mirror What intrigues here are not the implicit scientific and philosophical assumptions of the article - is this behavior merely mimickry by dint of a programming wizardry? Or is it a genuine robotic response to input from a mirror, a response in which it "recognizes … [Read more...]
AN INTERESTING PHYSICS ABSTRACT FROM DEAN RADIN
April 9, 2012 By
Many of you who have read my books or listened to my interviews, particularly on The Byte Show with George Ann Hughes, will be aware that I have maintained the idea that there is a direct interface between consciousness and the physical medium, including a "group multiplier effect" that needs careful experimental study. To my mind, the possible existence of this interface is one of the most potentially exciting - and dangerous - areas of physics to be investigated. Enter Dean Radin, long an advocate along with many others (for example, the British biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake) of this … [Read more...]
NEW SUPERCOMPUTER AT OAK RIDGE
March 31, 2011 By
Here's a fun one for all you computer geeks out there (and trust me, my websmaster, Daniel DiGriz, will tell you that I am about as far as I can be from being a computer geek!): 20 Petaflops Well, if you've been following the development of computer calculating ability, this is...well, as Art Bell used to say, "gimungous", and of course, this latest "electronic brain" will be replaced in world-record calculating ability by another, and yet another... It was all a process that began in World War Two, with the calculating devices of British engineer Turing, and his German counterpart, Hans … [Read more...]