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Archive for December, 2013

  • How to Survive the Pre-Singularity Era Part 1

    Dec 16, 13 • GeneralNo Comments
    How to Survive the Pre-Singularity Era Part 1

    I have worked a number of years in trauma and emergency medicine, and have learned a few lessons about human nature along the way that I think may be of benefit to others.  Our tendency as human beings to carry around an Optimism Bias is probably one of our most deadly traits.  The Optimism Bias …...

  • Transhumanism and the Being of Man

    Dec 15, 13 • General1 Comment
    Transhumanism and the Being of Man

    The American, Mathew Nagel, was one of the first people to receive electrodes implanted in his brain, for the purpose of control external devices. The young man was just 24 years old when he got this neural prosthesis, in the context of a clinical trial. The implanted prosthesis was developed by the company Cyberkinetics (Clausen …...

  • Brain Computer Interfaces- About Thinking and Data Processing

    Brain Computer Interfaces- About Thinking and Data Processing

     The American futurist Ray Kurzweil has written a book entitled “The Singularity is near: when humans transcend biology”, published in 2005. In this book he deals inter alia with the topic brain-machine interface. Kurzweil refers to Tomaso Poggio´s, James DiCarlos (both MIT) and Christof Koch´s (California Institute of Technology) attempts to develop a model which …...

  • A Bold Visionary: An Interview with Stephen Valentine of Timeship

    Dec 1, 13 • GeneralNo Comments
    A Bold Visionary: An Interview with Stephen Valentine of Timeship

    Set in the hot, Tuscany-like rolling hills of Comfort, Texas, northwest of San Antonio, is a project that is one of sciences’ best kept secrets, although it really isn’t a secret. On a 646 acre property, formerly known as the Bildarth Estate, lays the hopes and dreams of the creators of Timeship. Timeship has been …...