“The next programming paradigm is life science. We’re going to create a living world, this century.” Andrew Hessel
Finally, someone else articulating this truth with the scientific authority that might be better heard and received.

“We believe that humankind is currently on the verge of a complete collapse of it’s value structures. We believe that the world needs a new social formation that can be based around the ideas of transhumanism. New Humanity. We need revolution, but we don’t need a bloody revolution, we need …

Your homework for the leisurely holiday weekend is at Caltech DNA and Natural Algorithms Group.
There are three major scientific mysteries of the natural world (via DNA.Caltech.edu):

How can life arise from a mixture of inert molecules?
How does the body develop from a single cell?
How does the mind arise from a collection …

If 2+2 occurs in the cosmos and nobody adds them, is the sum still 4?

“The conscious part is like a stowaway on a trans-atlantic steamship that is taking credit for the whole journey, without acknowledging the engineering underfoot. So, it’s like when you have and idea and you say, ‘oh, I just thought of something,’ it wasn’t you who thought of it, your brains …

"Convention, by it’s nature, adheres to itself and rejects what is not conventional." – Daniel Kish
 

As we’ve long tracked, the eyeborgs continue to grow in numbers amongst us.
“The species has evolved to this point in time, but who says that’s the end of the line?” – David Jönsson

“Cognitive computing chips aim to reduce the cost of extracting information from ever changing spatial-temporal environments around us by an order of 100,000. Imagine the impact,” humans.

Nature Nanotechnolgy reports:
the conductivity of the biofilm can be tuned by regulating gene expression, and also by varying the gate voltage in a transistor configuration. The conductivity of the nanofilaments has a temperature dependence similar to that of a disordered metal, and the conductivity could be increased by processing.

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Once again, the inexhaustible KAI reporting:
“A bolt implanted in the skull would contain an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) microchip under the skin in the skull. It would pick up and process neural signals, and transmit them via the skin directly to a receiver located in or near the target muscle …

MIT Retinal Implant Research Group: “The major thrust of the RLE Retinal Implant Research Group is to develop a microelectronic retinal implant to restore vision to patients with age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The group’s implant design has unique features that improve its safety, function and performance. Efforts are …