Robert Hickson • Mar 04, 2014 •
It could be that the Tin foil hat brigade are right after all. Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have played around with fly mating behaviour by shooting a laser at their brain. This follows on from work implanting false memories in mice using the same technique – optogenetics. source: wikimedia commons … Read More
Robert Hickson • Jul 09, 2013 •
Some of you will be familiar with Ray Kurzweil’s vision of the merging of people and machines in the next few decades. A Russian billionaire is also keen on this idea, and is trying to get his own avatar project off the ground. But it may be too soon to give up on the wet ware just … Read More
Robert Hickson • Mar 01, 2012 •
Another self-made man (and it always seems to be men) is throwing money at digitizing the mind. Dmitry Itskov, a young media entrepreneur, has announced he is recruiting a team of scientists to, within the next decade no less, transplant human consciousness into a robot. After that it will, he hopes, be a short step to downloading minds so we can … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jul 11, 2011 •
For the last year or two, Matthew Dentith has organised twecon. And this year, I decided to take part. Heaven only knows why. After asking people for suggestions about a topic, a number of things kinda melded into one and I decided on ‘Robots and tentacles: the Singularity as Kraken’. Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 28, 2010 •
Does anyone else out there read Mind Bullets? If not, I’d thoroughly recommend it. Or else wait for me to occasionally post on it (when it’s appropriate to this forum). The most recent post certainly is. Mind Bullets, for the uninitiated, is part of the FutureWorlds network. Basically, a bunch of really interesting … Read More