Video. The blue planet (IMAX) How we recognize other minds. Rats Free Trapped Friends, Hint at Universal Empathy. With a few liberating swipes of their paws, a group of research rats freed trapped labmates and raised anew the possibility that empathy isn’t unique to humans and a few extra-smart animals, but is widespread in the animal world.
Though more studies are needed on the rats’ motivations, it’s at least plausible they demonstrated “empathically motivated pro-social behavior.” People would generally call that helpfulness, or even kindness. “Rats help other rats in distress. That means it’s a biological inheritance,” said neurobiologist Peggy Mason of the University of Chicago. Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds. Planetas a la distancia de la luna.
Pie.jpg (JPEG Imagen, 612x792 pixels) Singularity: Nanotech or AI? Josh Hall March 17, 2010 The question of the relative roles of nanotechnology and AI in forging the shape of the future has been argued in techno-futurist circles for decades.
Eric Drexler mentioned AI as a potentially disruptive technology in his seminal 1986 book Engines of Creation, and it was discussed at the very first Foresight conference 20 years ago. It is generally assumed that a self-improving super-human level of AI is part and parcel of the Singularity, and indeed, such was the basis of I. The Universe Is Recording Information Holographically. The Antikythera Mechanism - 2D.