Popular media often tends to present a larger than life picture of the brain and tends to mystify the subject by use of excessive hyperbole. The complexity of the brain is used as a bad excuse to justify this mystification. A complex real-world system may look intimidating and incomprehensible only in its details, but could …...
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 …...
Mind uploading or whole brain emulation (sometimes called mind transfer) is the hypothetical process of scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device. The computer would have to run a simulation model so faithful to the original that it would behave in essentially …...
BCI, or what is commonly known as Brain-Computer Interface is an emerging group of technologies which can also be presented as brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or mind-machine interfaces (MMI). In the recently published book of research, Introduction to Neural Engineering for Motor Rehabilitation (2013) by Dario Farina, Winnie Jensen and Metin Akay, the summary on the …...
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present. It is located in the head, usually close to the primary …...
It is October 2013 and we as a species rely entirely on the use of enhancing objects, environments, and ourselves. There are many forms of human enhancement that already exists within the realms of medicine, religion, athletic performance, surgery, prosthetics , cryonics, etc. This aspect of our daily lives will continue to increase its percentage …...
The hottest news about Google’s Project Glass is that the head-mounted device will carry inbuilt technology. This technology will allow users to hear audio without the need for headphones or speakers from the device, simply through the device’s contact with the head. Sound, directly to the skull. This means, with the use of the device …...
BBC Future featured on its website as of 14 June 2013, that a Chilean registered enterprise named Thinker Thing developed software called Emotional Evolutionary Design which can interpret the thoughts of a user, to help 3D print objects imagined by that user, and designed entirely by thought. This comes on the heels of an university …...
