Ampakine Ampakines are a class of compounds known to enhance attention span and alertness, and facilitate learning and memory. The ampakines take their name from the glutamatergic AMPA receptor with which they strongly interact. The AMPA receptor, in turn, gets its name from AMPA, which selectively binds to it. Ampakines have been investigated by DARPA for potential use in increasing military effectiveness.[1] Effects[edit] Unlike earlier stimulants (e.g. caffeine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), and the amphetamines), ampakines do not seem to have unpleasant, long-lasting side effects such as sleeplessness. They are currently being investigated as potential treatment for a range of conditions involving mental disability and disturbances such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, treatment-resistant depression (TRD) or neurological disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), among others. Examples and structure[edit] Racetam family[edit] Eli Lilly/other[edit]
Memetics This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture, not to be confused with Mimesis. Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.[1] Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. The meme, analogous to a gene, was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more individuals, and which can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-replicator reproducing itself in a new host. Memetics is also notable for sidestepping the traditional concern with the truth of ideas and beliefs. History[edit] The modern memetics movement dates from the mid-1980s. The term "meme"[edit] Maturity[edit] Criticism[edit]
Viralidad: concepto y ejemplos | Comunicación online para todos los públicos. ¿Recordáis el post con el que se iniciaba este blog? Trataba de los Flashmobs. Hoy quiero explicar brevemente y poner algunos ejemplos del concepto, en comunicación de viralidad. La palabra viralidad no tiene una definición establecida, de hecho si buscas en la R.A.E. no encontrarás resultados. Aplicando este concepto a la comunicación podemos encontrarnos con vídeos virales, con campañas de marketing viral o acciones concretas virales. En publicidad se realizan muchas campañas a lo largo del año y si consigues que se convierta en viral, la difusión que tendrá tu campaña crecerá exponencialmente sin incrementar el coste inicial de la campaña. Aquí tenéis un ejemplo claro de un anuncio de coches que se convirtió en una de los vídeos más vistos. O este otro en el que una conocida marca de lácteos quiere llamar la atención sobre los efectos de su agua embotellada en nuestro cuerpo. Aun así un viral no tiene porque ser un anuncio ni tiene que estar asociado a una marca en concreto. Me gusta:
List of Internet phenomena This is a partial list of social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as popular themes, catchphrases, images, viral videos, jokes, and more. When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth. Advertising Animation and comics Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, founders of JibJab The adult brony fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic grew from its 4chan roots xkcd's "Wikipedian Protestor" comic Email
Internet and memetics Garry Marshall School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Road, London N14 4XS, England. e-mail: Garry2@mdx.ac.uk Abstract The functioning and usage of the Internet are examined in terms of memes and memetics. It is shown that memetic systems can be distinguished at various levels of Internet operation, and that these systems become increasingly simple as they move further from the user level. 1. Memetics provides a powerful new way to think about things such as, for example, creativity (Gabora, 1997). The Internet, like all computer networks, is designed and constructed in a layered fashion, with layers of software added to the basic hardware. In fact, as this paper shows in a limited way, the functioning of the various layers can be interpreted memetically. 2. We begin by considering the World Wide Web. Routing is, in essence, achieved with routing tables. This way of achieving adaptive routing can be interpreted as a memetic system. 3. 4. 5. 6. Gabora, L.
Publicidad viral: La comunicación por contagio Mònika Jiménez Morales (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Citación recomendada: Mònika Jiménez Morales. Publicidad viral: La comunicación por contagio [en linea]. "Hipertext.net", núm. 6, 2008. 1. 1. Cuando en 1994 una pequeña editorial americana publicó un libro titulado “Media Virus”, lo cierto es que muy pocos supieron ver, al menos de entrada, el impacto que la publicación tendría para las nuevas generaciones de publicitarios y, obviamente, de consumidores de todo el mundo. De forma similar a las propias teorías del autor, la existencia de la obra “Media Virus”, se fue difundiendo en un meteórico boca-oreja, de manera que el libro llego a ser un best-seller en pocos meses. 2. Este es el formato elegido por muchas de las campañas publicitarias que, en los últimos años, han desbancado en efectividad a las formas de publicidad convencionales. No tan vinculadas a la comunicación publicitaria, encontramos otras formas de viralidad en las bases de datos gestionadas por los propios usuarios. 3.
Transhumanism Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies. They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] History[edit] According to Nick Bostrom,[1] transcendentalist impulses have been expressed at least as far back as in the quest for immortality in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as historical quests for the Fountain of Youth, Elixir of Life, and other efforts to stave off aging and death. First transhumanist proposals[edit]
Be an Information DJ - Matthew Lieberman by Matthew Lieberman | 1:02 PM November 27, 2012 When President Obama considers how to mobilize opinion and persuade Americans to support his agenda, we can be sure he’ll want to tap the power of changing minds by understanding what makes ideas go viral. In building support for tough, difficult issues such as deficit reduction and tax policy, the Obama team will want to know more about how buzz works in the brain. At the Neuroleadership Summit 2012 held in mid-October in New York City, Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine, joined me as we presented research casting new light on conventional thinking many of us have about buzz. Buzz is extraordinarily important because as social beings humans crave communication, and buzz spreads ideas like wildfire. Memes are ideas, and ideas aren’t ideas without people. From a traditional perspective on information processing this is a strange finding.
Cryonics Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation Cryonics (from Greek κρύος kryos- meaning icy cold) is the low-temperature preservation of humans who cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future.[1][2] Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology. The stated rationale for cryonics is that people who are considered dead by current legal or medical definitions may not necessarily be dead according to the more stringent information-theoretic definition of death.[3] It is proposed that cryopreserved people might someday be recovered by using highly advanced technology.[4] The future repair technologies assumed by cryonics are still hypothetical and not widely known or recognized. Premises[edit] Obstacles to success[edit] Preservation injury[edit] Long-term cryopreservation can be achieved by cooling to near 77.15 Kelvin, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Revival[edit]
09 | marzo | 2011 Hola: Una infografía titulada “La carrera de la robótica”. Un saludo Me gusta: Me gusta Cargando... Una infografía titulada: Geolocalización ¿Qué es? Una detallada infografía que nos explica el funcionamiento de la telefonía móvil. Un saludo Una infografía titulada “¿Está muerta la impresión?” Un vídeo titulado “Cómo un vídeo llega a ser viral”. Antiscience History[edit] In the beginnings of the scientific revolution, scientists such as Robert Boyle found themselves in conflict with those such as Thomas Hobbes, who were skeptical of whether science was a satisfactory way to obtain genuine knowledge about the world. Hobbes' stance is sometimes regarded as an antiscience position: In his Six Lessons to the Professors of Mathematics,...[published in 1656, Hobbes] distinguished 'demonstrable' fields, as 'those the construction of the subject whereof is in the power of the artist himself,' from 'indemonstrable' ones 'where the causes are to seek for.' We can only know the causes of what we make. It was also Hobbes who "put forth the idea of the significance of the nonrational in human behaviour." [4] Jones goes on to group Hobbes along with others he classes as 'antireductionists' and 'individualists,' such as Wilhelm Dilthey, Karl Marx, Jeremy Bentham and J S Mill, and then he adds Karl Popper, John Rawls and E. Political antiscience[edit]