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LinkedInQuite a few of you sent me this one, and I think it's definitely worth posting, especially in the context of yesterday's blog about NASA's plan to drag asteroids to the Moon and mine them. There is a new architecture coming out for the enhancement of robotic performance, an architecture that will allow robots to be "independent," i.e., to learn in a fashion, and to perform tasks, in an almost human fashion: DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’ Brains Take note of a couple of paragraphs here: "What sets this new device apart from any others is that it has nano-scale interconnected wires … [Read more...]
THE BRAIN AND NATIONAL SECURITY
April 8, 2013 By
This one comes courtesy of Ms. P.H. and it's what my friend George Ann Hughes would call a "whopper-doozie." Recently as most readers of this site are probably aware, President Obama made a statement in behalf of a multi-million dollar project to map the human brain and its functions. We were re-assured that this would be a step towards the healing of neurological diseases such as Alzheimers' and Parkinson's. By extension, one can imagine that perhaps such mapping would lead to a greater understanding of brain cancers. However, when I heard this news, I could not help but think of darker … [Read more...]
WARP DRIVE CAPABILITY AMONG THE GOALS OF DARPA: PART TWO
March 30, 2013 By
Yesterday I talked about the public admissions by DARPA and NASA that they were conducting actual experiments on the notion of a warp drive for deep space exploration and (though not stated, always an implication) colonization by humans. Such a practical capability would, as I suggested yesterday, give humanity not merely a practical interplanetary capability but a practical interstellar one. All this was made possible by the publication of the equations for such space-warping by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre. But I ended by suggesting that maybe we're simply being publicly … [Read more...]
WARP DRIVE CAPABILITY AMONG THE GOALS OF DARPA: PART ONE
March 29, 2013 By
Many of you sent this to me, Mr. VT, Ms P.H....so many in fact I cannot thank you all, but I agree with all of you, this is one that is highly significant in so many ways. Here's the article: Warp Factor In one sense, the sequence of events is predictable. Newton had to publish the equations for gravity and optics before reliable technologies could be constructed on their basis, but once he did, he unwittingly unleashed the industrial revolution. By the same token, the equations of space warps are already out there and have been since the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre published … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM MARCH 21 2013
March 21, 2013 By
Joseph Comments about the Chinese Eugenics program and about the attempt of banksters to steal a percentage of the deposits of Cypriots: Chinese Eugenics Factory Collects “Genius” DNA To Breed “Enhanced” People … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA: THE GLOBAL (RAT’S) BRAIN
March 16, 2013 By
Around the turn of the last century, that scientific genius of all scientific geniuses, Nikola Tesla, prophesied of the creation of a vast electronic global network, beaming information from any point on the globe, to any other point. He called it a "global brain," suggesting an emergent "group consciousness" that resulted from the ability of individual humans to connect with each other directly. In short, Tesla foresaw the Internet. More recently, co-author Scott deHart and I wrote about the Frankenstein possibilities of human-machine interfaces in Transhumanism: A Grimoire of … [Read more...]
THE GROWING TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK: AN FDA APPROVED ARTIFICIAL RETINA
March 6, 2013 By
Back when Dr. de Hart and I were having our discussions when we were writing Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas, one of the things we talked a great deal about was the promise of new technologies in the realm of prosthetics, and of the long term implications. Well, with that in mind, here's one for your "tranhumanist scrapbook" as yet another technology appears poised to come on line, one huge with long term implications: Artificial Retina Receives FDA Approval Now, personally, I view the ability to restore some level of sight to the blind as a good thing, provided, always … [Read more...]
DARPA WANTS DRONES UNDER THE SEA…
February 1, 2013 By
If you thought aerial drones were the only things up the sleeve of the world's great powers in their new rush to robotic warfare, there are sea-going drones, and DARPA wants to base them on the ocean floor: US Military Wants to Hide Drones Under the Sea Now the question is why would DARPA and the US military be contemplating such a move; clearly, such a deployment does not really serve the "war on Islamicist terror", but one can envision some usefulness against the growing war on piracy. Similarly, one may envision the utility of this new form of "smart mine field" for the growing … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA IN THE BRAVE NEW (TRANSHUMANIST CYBORG) WORLD
January 31, 2013 By
Before you rush out and get that brain chip implant you've been so craving, or upgrade your Pentium Cerebellum Enhanced Scanning and Memory Aide, ponder this one, and some the the implications: Scientist with RFID chip Gets Computer Virus This bit of news has to have the modern Peter Lorre's, Vincent Price's, Boris Karloff's, and Bela Lugosi's who work for DARPA rubbing their hands together in mad scientist cackling glee as they contemplate yet more possible transhumanist cyborg futures. Already, as readers here are aware, some transhumanists envision a future where one's entire life … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA AGAIN: DRONING ON ABOUT DRONES…
December 19, 2012 By
Like many of you, I've been following the emergent transhumanist technologies of "emulation" and "anamnesis", the technologies designed to emulate and invoke or "recollect" the gods of old. These technologies are transhumanist in my opinion because they fulfill the extension of human consciousness throughout the universe so openly called for by some transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil, and because their intent in the hands of some is to allow the robotic extension of an individual's perception and "presence" outside of the body. In short, what we are talking about is the robotic extension and … [Read more...]