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29 June 2010
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Clunky, Rudimentary Prototypes for Substrate Independence?

Some of our post-protoplasmic tenements may be meat, some may be metal, some may be silicon, some may even attempt the vastly more inconceivable leap to pure software, or even into the pure light of quantum computational fields. Regardless of one’s intolerance for hype or inclination for reading too much …

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2 June 2010
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The Fate of the Meat World

The fate of the meat world
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“Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.” — Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge …

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9 March 2010
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BCI: Thought2Text at 1 Letter Per Second

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The world’s first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived at CeBIT 2010. The Intendix from Guger Technologies (g*tec) is a system that uses an EEG cap to measure brain activity in order to let you type with your thoughts. Meant to work with those with …

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3 March 2010
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What a Bird Brain: Or, Why Neurons Are Amazing

This morning I watched a bird — I believe a finch — in the back yard. He was making use of the bird house, which is quite small, featuring perhaps a 3/4″ hole for a front door.

This bird arrived on the perch with about a 4 inch long stick in …

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