“Just as Copernicus’s heliocentric notion of universe is now bedrock truth, the Neuro Revolution will bring about new ideas of human spirituality that will forever reshape our understanding of humanity’s role and place the universe. A quiet transformation has begun, albeit one that may take centuries to play …

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On Thursday, November 12, 2009, sponsored by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics:
Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent …

More extraordinarily high-signal outputs from the seemingly inexhaustible cognition engine behind Sentient Developments:
Cognitive liberty is not just about the right to modify one’s mind, emotional balance and psychological framework (for example, through anti-depressants, cognitive enhancers, psychotropic substances, etc.), it’s also very much about the right to not have one’s mind …

Tonight on Tech Nation: The Neuro Revolution
Host Moira Gunn talks with Zack Lynch, author of “The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science is Changing Our World.”
Sun, Aug 23, 2009 — 10:00 pm

However, this may not be the case for very much longer; hence the imperative to make some key policy and personal decisions, right now. What manner of individuals and society are we to become? As @cascio writes, in The Atlantic Monthly:
if the next several decades are as bad as some …

File under “previously considered highly unlikely sources” for transhumanist philosophical spelunking? On the other hand, as more and more religions attempt to assimilate transhumanist principles into their respective canons; that can only assist the transreligious cause of transhuman progress, no?
It’s true that if an advanced civilization could create a simulation …

“We should welcome with open arms the rich possibilities of technologically enhancing our bodies,” reports Andy Miah in the Guardian this week, adding the important caveat, “just so long as we don’t all end up looking, and thinking, and acting the same.”
[Next month,] The European Parliament is set to debate …

Bringing Second Life creative embodiment into First Life Experience?

As we’ve said for years … just gimme the I/O ports …
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to …

Report: Brain-Boosting Pills OK For All – Staying Healthy News Story – KGTV San Diego
Healthy people should have the right to boost their brain power with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired seniors, according to several scientists writing in an opinion piece in the journal Nature.

Media X and SRI International invite you to join us in a very special event on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. at Stanford University’s Memorial Auditorium.
Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI’s Revolutionary 1968 Demo – A 40th Anniversary Celebration
On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas …