‘Darwinian Fundamentalism’: An Exchange by Daniel C. Dennett. In response to: Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism from the June 26, 1997 issue To the Editors: Stephen Jay Gould complains that in Darwin’s Dangerous Idea I attack his views via “hint, innuendo, false attribution,” and “caricature” [NYR, June 26].
James Patten: The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands. 60,000 miles up: Space elevator could be built by 2035, says new study. Imagine a ribbon roughly one hundred million times as long as it is wide.
If it were a meter long, it would be 10 nanometers wide, or just a few times thicker than a DNA double helix. Scaled up to the length of a football field, it would still be less than a micrometer across — smaller than a red blood cell. The Edge of Science. Deep Space Industries – BUSINESS. Deep Space Industries – EXPLORATION/TECHNOLOGY. Higher Science. HERE IS TODAY.
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It uses data from sensors and actuators to build a model that can inform you if something is out of place. It can monitor temperature, lighting, energy usage, you and your pets' presence, and anything else you connect to your sphere. By using data from your devices, environment, and location your sphere is able to advise you intelligently and give you control only when you need it. We already support a huge array of devices, but because our approach is open source, almost anybody can write and share a driver to connect a device to your sphere.
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics and Life A new book by: Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan. Stack Exchange - Free, Community-Powered Q&A. Self Knowledge Through NumbersQuantified Self. Big Idea 2014: The Microchipped Self. Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death - health - 26 March 2014. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2.
Digital Health Feedback System - Proteus Digital Health. Pattern survival versus gene survival. I decided to write this article after I found that many colleagues and participants whom I spoke with at the recent Humanity+ (ref.
R.A. Carboncopies (substrate independence) Temple of Cosmism » Page 2. The Scale of the Universe 2. Transhuman. Mind. Uncanny valley. In an experiment involving the human lookalike robot Repliee Q2 (pictured above), the uncovered robotic structure underneath Repliee, and the actual human who was the model for Repliee, the human lookalike triggered the highest level of mirror neuron activity.[1] Etymology[edit] The concept was identified by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970.[5][6] The term "uncanny valley" first appeared in the 1978 book Robots: Fact, Fiction, and Prediction, written by Jasia Reichardt.[7] The hypothesis has been linked to Ernst Jentsch's concept of the "uncanny" identified in a 1906 essay "On the Psychology of the Uncanny".[8][9][10] Jentsch's conception was elaborated by Sigmund Freud in a 1919 essay entitled "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").[11] Hypothesis[edit] This area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a "barely human" and "fully human" entity is called the uncanny valley.
Theoretical basis[edit] Posthumanism and Transhumanism Literature. Posthumanism and Transhumanism Literature Hello, I am wondering if someone here knows of any good academic resources on the topics of Posthumanism and Transhumanism.
Posthumanism seems to fall into several sections of discussion, but I am more interested in learning about the version which is more related to Transhumanism. I am interested in learning what the defining and developing ideas are within these two terms. For myself, the interest in the topic is coming from art making. In the past I used to do performance art works and I would never document them. Seeing the Future in Science Fiction. Some of my earliest memories are of science fiction.
Not of prose fiction, or of film, but of the cultural and industrial semiotics of the American nineteen-fifties: the interplanetarily themed chrome trim on my father’s Oldsmobile Rocket 88; the sturdy injection-molded styrene spacemen on the counter at Woolworth’s (their mode of manufacture more predictive than their subject, as it turned out); the gloriously baroque Atomic Disintegrator cap pistol (Etsy currently has one on offer, in “decent vintage” condition, for two hundred and fifty dollars); Chesley Bonestell’s moodily thrilling illustrations for Willy Ley’s book “The Conquest of Space.” Orion's Arm. Orion's Arm, (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000[1] by M.
Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since.[2] It was described by Cory Doctorow as "a pretty thoroughgoing post-Singularity thinggum with lots of opportunity for fun noodling".[3] Anyone can contribute articles, stories, artwork, or music to the website. A large mailing list exists,[4] in which members debate aspects of the world they are creating, discussing additions, modifications, issues arising, and work to be done.
A computer game and a role-playing game are being developed by the community, within the OA milieu. Setting[edit] Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com. Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions. Thinking About Futurism. History of Constellation and Star Names. Studies of Occidental Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period: An Annotated Bibliography Web Site For Gary D.
Thompson, Melton West, Australia. Crowlspace - A Deep Future view. There’s Plenty More Room at the Bottom: Beyond Nanotech to Femtotech. Ben Goertzel January 10, 2011 Not long ago nanotechnology was a fringe topic; now it's a flourishing engineering field, and fairly mainstream. For example, while writing this article, I happened to receive an email advertisement for the “Second World Conference on Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery,” in Kerala, India. 4 of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe [Weekend Feature] - From Quarks to Quasars. Don’t click the image. NOTHING good can come from you clicking this image!!!! This may come as a shock to some of you, but we haven’t actually discovered everything in the universe (we can’t even see all of it!).
I know, I know. 5 Most Interesting Alternative Theories About The Universe. Considering the fact that humans will not be able to travel to the moon for the second time, without even mentioning other planets in the solar system, scientists are creating quite organized and compelling theories regarding composition and origin of our universe. These theories are based on long-term observations of visible parts of the universe as well as on guesses. Ekpyrotic theory of how the universe has evolved Everyone knows about the Big Bang theory.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. The Society of Neural Prosthetics and Whole Brain Emulation Science. Affordable bootstrapping - Metzger et al (preprint 2012) Centauri Dreams — The News Forum of the Tau Zero Foundation. A nonprofit foundation dedicated to achieving interstellar flight by 2100. » Talmud and the Turing Test The Occasional Pamphlet. Alan Turing, the patron saint of computer science, was born 100 years ago this week (June 23). I’ll be attending the Turing Centenary Conference at University of Cambridge this week, and am honored to be giving an invited talk on “The Utility of the Turing Test”. The Turing Test was Alan Turing’s proposal for an appropriate criterion to attribute intelligence (that is, capacity for thinking) to a machine: you verify through blinded interactions that the machine has verbal behavior indistinguishable from a person.
In preparation for the talk, I’ve been looking at the early history of the premise behind the Turing Test, that language plays a special role in distinguishing thinking from nonthinking beings. I had thought it was an Enlightenment idea, that until the technological advances of the 16th and 17th centuries, especially clockwork mechanisms, the whole question of thinking machines would never have entertained substantive discussion. As I wrote earlier, The Dream: The Dream of Flight (A Library of Congress Special Presentation Commemorating the Centennial of Flight) Introduction. The REAL Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition. IOPscience. Welcome to the Cassiopeia Project. Whole Earth Catalog Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. The Manual For Civilization Begins. Science & Environment - Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?
Are we alone? The Elusive Big Idea. Cosmos. HyperPhysics. TEDxCERN - Multiplying Dimensions. Leap Motion. If the universe is accelerating, and life that will exist 100 billion years from now cannot detect things that occur in the universe today, can we detect things that happened 13 billion years ago? Would they not have just disappeared? [Details Inside] : a. Science.iop.org/0004-637X/624/2/463/pdf/0004-637X_624_2_463.pdf. Fundamental Forces. Weird Science: The Bootstrap Hypothesis. Fine-tuned Universe. Www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/ant_encyc.pdf.
Cosmic Jackpot. The Anthropic Principle. A Designer Universe? The Mind of God. The Mind of God is a 1992 non-fiction book by Paul Davies. Theophysics.host56.com/pdf/Tipler-Anthropic-Principle.pdf. Fuck Yeah, Feynman. Nature Editorial on The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 'Lecture notes' Lapidarium — Richard P. Feynman on the scientific view of the...