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World first biological brain robot
13 August 2008“Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday. Their groundbreaking experiments explore the vanishing boundary between natural and artificial intelligence, and could shed light on [...]
San Jose Professor Fired for Answering Question about Genetics and Homosexuality
18 July 2008A former San Jose City College biology professor is suing the college after she was fired for answering a student’s question on the relationship between homosexuality and heredity. On June 21, 2007, June Sheldon, an adjunct professor teaching a human heredity course, answered a question about how heredity affects homosexual behavior by citing the class [...]
What duplicating or backing up your mind really means: Mind snapshots
9 July 2008Shortly after writing the The challenge of mind duplication/transfer post I went seeking others to chat with about this topic. I hoped on irc and had an interesting conversation in a neuroscience channel. It was a great conversation that lead to some very interesting possibilities being discussed. People typically think that duplicating the mind means [...]
Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?
23 June 2008We’ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We’ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these “AI use cases” you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior [...]
The challenge of mind duplication/transfer
12 May 2008Others have discussed the concept of duplicating one’s mind or backing it up. Before copying a mind you first need to know 1. How (minor detail!) – While alive – After death 2. How for that organism – Human – Fish 3. The context of what is being duplicated – For the same organism – [...]
