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“I will poor out my spirit on all flesh... He said I’m gonna raise you... God never asked you to do anything he doesn’t give you the power to do it with... if you don’t put on the Truth, you cannot stand...” 

As human neural networks and electronic digital networks converge there is some debate over how to best move data from neural to digital formats.

Switch on memory? What’s not clear is why the switch flips “off” as we get older. It might help us cope with oxidative stress at the cellular level as we age.

Let’s start by petting (or shooting) the elephant in the room. All the snarksters will assume that I’m interviewing Dr. Richard Clark Kaufman on nutraceuticals because his NEURVANA company is an h+ advertiser. Not true. My corruption is entirely based on the free schwag!

“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities....” — Plato (The Symposium)

Don your telepathic headset and plug into your iPhone. Want to call your friend? Just look at her picture and think about her.

Have you ever been beaten at the classic word game Scrabble by an 85-year-old grandmother? (I have, and I’m usually pretty good at wordsmithing.) Some elderly people with super-sharp memory don’t seem to suffer the memory loss that assails most people as they age. Why?

Consciousness is the “hard problem” in mind science: explaining how the astonishing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity.

It will happen some day. It is inevitable. In the near future, someone will decide to record every moment of a human life from birth to death in digital storage. This will be more than an extreme reality TV stunt.

The New York Times reports that the “ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development.”