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Well that didn’t take long.
The Human Brain Project comes out, and dares to make you obsolete from atop its icy Blofeldian Swiss Alps.
BOOM! -Along comes IBM with Cognitive Computing and SyNAPSE. -To help you choose which brand of Ketchup at the Kroger’s.
Oh well, at least [the allegedly 1st Cognitive Computer] Watson was good at “Jeopardy”.
More info + vids after the jump…
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They haven’t found the soul yet, but scientists have discovered a surprising surge of activity in the brains of near-death test animals.
-Still no word one way or another if Larry King is just one elaborately-syndicated “Weekend at Bernie’s” clockwork-android.
My vote? -Definitely!…
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So a recent blip in health-stuff came up again about one of the most dreaded liver-slugging painkillers we have: Tylenol.
It turns out that since at least 2009, studies have been revealing some unanticipated psycho-social Freakonomics in their function;
And even one or two weird back roads in how our brains work with pain, too…
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In the changeable and often contrarian field of evolutionary psychology, especially the bits involving our most powerful hormone, there’s an interesting new development about an old truth.
That old code among men who are friends about each others’ wives and girlfriends may have evidence in actual fact.
Most of the headlines are focusing on the hormone, but of-course, this is really a story about Evolution.
It would seem to make sense that historically, tribes…
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Take that, Ray Kurzweil! -BAM!
Ok, fun’s over.
Though my informal guess involves some of my old pal Joseph Schumpeter’s work, and pattern-observation of real delays in predictions of the Web 1.0 Bubble,
It ultimately differs from Both Ray and Duke Neuroscientist, Miguel Nicolelis,
Who says the Singularity won’t happen. -Ever.…
Not that it hasn’t been tried before, including spectacular girlfriend, Maria, in Fritz’ Lang’s “Metropolis”, but this time it’s for serious.
Our old lovable-scamp pal, Dr. Henry Markram is up to his old familiar hijinks; this time with something even more ambitious.
Not only has he figured out how brain-cells make connections,
Now he wants to do a hyper-accurate scan of an Actual Brain, with all 100 Billion of those neurons in it. -And the 150 Trillion Synapses that connect them, too.
Dr. Henry has some asplainin’ to do in the Vid after the Jump…
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And in-keeping with the recent theme of Mind/Brain, NPR,
And the inspirational invention of thought-to-text fMRI computer-brain-interface by Bettina Sorger and her team,
A [love] story that will absolutely destroy every single last gram of public composure you thought you had.
Better sneak off and find yourself a private spot where you can just bawl your eyes out and not be embarrassed…
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Not JUST a 2-legged, 1-dimensional, walking plot device ala much of the ‘character dialogue’ in “Dune”,
Not JUST a way to better pretend your pornographer-teddy-bear has come to life,
Not JUST a way for Emma Stone to reveal her true feelings in a romantic comedy about the highschool crush she doesn’t have the guts to talk to;
Something much more serious…
