Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web. Cyberpunk Bibliography. Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984) Information Database. 114.pdf (application/pdf Object) THESIS.PDF (application/pdf Object) The First Church of Transhumanism. Beliefs \ Transhumanist Church. In response to a post on this board I have started a new thread detailing the beliefs of the Transhumanist Church.
We are a religious organization that brings together the ideas of Humanism, Transhumanism, Cryonics, and Universal Immortalism into one all encompassing belief structure. We are a small movement, in the infancy of our development, but feel that there is a need for our message. While many have eloquently argued the merits and logic of our positions, we feel that there is still a need to place this all in a religious context.
Religion and faith rule the lives of the vast majority of the people on this planet. Transhumanism. Transhumanism (>H or H+) is the belief that we can, and should , try to overcome our biological limitations by means of reason, science, and technology. Transhumanists seek things like intelligence augmentation, increased strength and beauty, extreme life extension, sustainable mood enhancement , and the capability to get off-planet and explore the universe. TransVision 2010. Why I want to be a cyborg. Eythor Bender, CEO of Ekso Bionics.
I didn’t realize how much I wanted to become a cyborg until I saw the robotic exoskeletons Ekso Bionics was creating. Click here or on the photo for a slideshow on how cyborg technology is helping one woman. “Heart Stop Beating” – New Film Documents Heartless Man. By criteria doctors conventionally use to analyze patients, Craig Lewis was dead.
He had no heartbeat, no pulse, his EKG was flatlined. Yet he left the hospital and returned home to his wife. Gut-On-A-Chip, The Latest In Scientists’ Attempt To Mimic Organs In The Lab. Organ-on-a-chip technologies seek to replace animal models and cell culture by allowing scientists to study human tissue with three-dimensional structure and, with microfluidic channels, is bathed in fluids in ways that mimic normal physiology.
Scientifically speaking, the ideal test subject for medical research is the human being. Japanese Researchers Continue Quest To Build Life-Like Humanoid Robots. In the graphic novel The Watchmen, the physicist Jon Osterman is vaporized in an experiment and comes back as the god-like Doctor Manhattan after meticulously putting himself together again one organ system at a time. In a way, Japanese researchers are doing their own version of this through efforts to create human-like robots, though it’s requiring a much longer time frame to make a person out of metal and plastics.
In a recent effort to mimic the human musculoskeletal system, researchers at the University of Tokyo unveiled Kenshiro, a 50-kg robot that has the bones and muscles akin to a 12-year-old boy. Prototype Bionic Eye Goes Live In World First. Australia's first bionic eye seeing shapes Watch Dianne Ashworth, the blind recipient of the first bionic eye developed in Victoria, as she sees for the first time in two decades.
A blind woman can now see spots of light after being implanted with an early prototype bionic eye, confirming the potential of the world-first technology. Australian researchers have been working for years to develop the bionic eye, in which electrodes are inserted into the retina of vision-impaired patients. Dianne Ashworth, 54, was the first patient fitted with the device in surgery at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in May. Decoding the Human Eye. Artificial retinas are already in human clinical trials at the University of Southern California, where they have helped blind patients distinguish walls from doorways and even watch soccer games, albeit as blurs of motion.
But approximating normal vision–and possibly enabling people to read–will require devices that can deliver electrical current with much greater control and precision. Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind. A microchip with 1,500 light sensors sits beneath the retina and stimulates neurons which project to the brain's visual cortex.
Paralysed woman's thoughts control robotic arm. 16 December 2012Last updated at 22:14 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been achieved using a paralysed woman's thoughts, a US study says.
Jan Scheuermann, who is 53 and paralysed from the neck down, was able to deftly grasp and move a variety of objects just like a normal arm. Experts in the field said it was an "unprecedented performance" and a "remarkable achievement". Jan was diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration 13 years ago and progressively lost control of her body.
She is now unable to move her arms or legs. Robo-arm. Deaf Toddler Receives Bionic Ear, Weeks Later Speaks Her First Word. Evie Small heard her first sound and said her first word thanks to a bionic ear implant.
A two-year old British girl born severely deaf due to a developmental disorder has spoken her first word after receiving a bionic ear. The medical team led by Dr. Vittorio Colletti, the leading surgeon for installing ear implants in pediatric patients, performed the surgery on Evie Small last June in Verona, Italy. After recovering from swelling in her brain after the surgery, the device was turned on a month later. In just two weeks, Evie heard her first sound and was able to clearly repeat her mother saying “mumma”. More than simply enabling her to hear, the device is key to her cognitive development, ability to speak, and otherwise lead a healthy life in a world full of sound.
Seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees. Artificial limbs, controlled by thoughts. In 2014, billions of viewers worldwide may remember the opening game of the World Cup in Brazil for more than just the goals scored by the Brazilian national team and the red cards given to its adversary.
On that day my laboratory at Duke University, which specializes in developing technologies that allow electrical signals from the brain to control robotic limbs, plans to mark a milestone in overcoming paralysis. Alan Kay, "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages," 1972. Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the iPad in 1968. The light of other days. Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. Let me introduce myself. I am RoseRose, doing business on Google Earth 2007 as an alien paleoanthropologist from another timeframe, studying the heirloom code of Homo Sapiens. Im focusing on your critical position at the beginning of the psychedelic age, with the emergence of the first psychedelically informed superpower: Google. If you were to call yourselves Homo Sapiens v1.0, I lie somewhere around v4.5 same basic architecture on the wetware, but with key bugs fixed, a re-wired brain and a new linguistic OS. Hyperconnected Bodies the rising cloud of selfaware data.
How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable. Dead Media Beat: Man-Computer Symbiosis, 1960. *I’m tossing this whole thing in here because I want it handy. Man-Computer Symbiosis J. 2013 — The Dawn Of Wearable Computing? The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset promises to bring stunning immersion for gamers. How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us. Medical Technology Development and Approval. The Future Is Now + Author Affiliations. Scan Reveals Brain’s Structure To Be Much Simpler Than We Thought. Peering into the brain with a scanner of unprecedented resolution, scientists discovered that the basic structure of neuronal networks was a simple, three-dimensional grid. India issues biometric ID to entire population. Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch. Magical mystery machine: How Memoto’s lifelogging camera could change our memories.
New Microscopy Tracks Molecules in Live Tissue at Video Rate. Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Neurography. How would neural interfacing improve intelligence? Q: How would neural interfaces work? A: Neural interfacing refers to direct, useful connections between brains (neurons) and computers (transistors.) It is also referred to as BCI (brain-computer interfacing).
It is much more complicated than it sounds. Neurons and transistors have almost nothing in common. They both communicate using electrical impulses, but neurons do this through chemical reactions rather than external current. Neural Engineering - Experimental Microsystems Platforms - Microsensors and Sensor Microsystems (MSTC) News & Events. Single Brain Cell Can Hold a Memory. Pinelab. Neurochip. Numbers: The Nervous System, From 268-MPH Signals to Trillions of Synapses. Speed of Nerve Impulses. Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory. Neuroethical_Considerations_of_TMS_for_SPPconference.pdf (application/pdf Object)