Category Archives: metavalent

Gently Breaking the News to the Normals

Posted on February 4, 2010 by metavalent

Get ready, it’s all coming together and now is the time to gently prepare the normals for what’s next; even if it’s by way of the equivalent of visual nursery rhymes and benign Olympic sideshows, for now. Winter Olympics to … Continue reading →

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Engineering Tissues, Growing Organs

Posted on January 30, 2010 by metavalent

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In the Lab with Brain Co-Processors

Posted on January 5, 2010 by metavalent

One of the projects being developed by the group is a form of assistive technology they call a brain co-processor. This system, also referred to as a cognitive assistive system, would initially be aimed at people suffering from cognitive disorders … Continue reading →

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Ultimate 6th Sense Brain Implant

Posted on November 26, 2009 by metavalent

“Who knows? Maybe, in another ten years, we’ll be here with the ultimate sixth sense brain implant.” — Pattie Maes

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The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

Posted on November 25, 2009 by metavalent

Is it merely cheesy pop pseudo science … “The field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” Since Einstein uses the term particle to represent “matter,” he is acknowledging that the field controls our physical reality. … or a … Continue reading →

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Secret Math of Fly Eyes + AR Contact Lens

Posted on November 13, 2009 by metavalent

Wired: The researchers’ algorithm is composed of a series of five equations through which data from cameras can be run. Each equation represents tricks used by fly circuits to handle changing levels of brightness, contrast and motion, and their parameters … Continue reading →

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In one sense, our hands define our humanity …

Posted on November 5, 2009 by metavalent

… and just perhaps, they will help to define the most familiar and comforting path toward substrate-independent posthumanity … SmartHand device. (Credit: Image rights American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Ekenstam told a television interviewer, “I am using muscles which … Continue reading →

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Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics

Posted on November 3, 2009 by metavalent

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. … Continue reading →

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Sentience: A grouping of types of perception

Posted on November 2, 2009 by metavalent

It’s important now to recognize that nowhere in the concept of sentience is there a mention of mind, intelligence, or self-awareness. In fact, much of what we perceive is irreducibly complex, as our emotions cannot be broken up into their … Continue reading →

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Minds4Sale, Synaptic Time Shares: Human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as server rackspace

Posted on November 2, 2009 by metavalent

Stanford CodeX: “Human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace.” File under Augmented, Extended, Emergent Cognition Grid.

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Substrate Independence: The Easy Part

Posted on November 2, 2009 by metavalent

Technology Review (via KAIN): Oh, there’ll be no body category, class, or type limits — within the bounds of the laws of physics — for your inevitable substrate independent migratory path; just one niggling little problem holdin’ up the show: … Continue reading →

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More Obsolete Human Skills 2020: 1.) Handwriting 2.) Manual driving, flying

Posted on November 2, 2009 by metavalent

PhysOrg, (via KAIN): Stanford engineers are developing the first autonomous racing car to climb Pikes Peak, a challenging 12.4-mile ascent in the Rocky Mountains, at 130 mph, as a way to create and test safety systems they hope one day … Continue reading →

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Steal This Brain Wave

Posted on October 25, 2009 by metavalent

 

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