This Week in Science 4-10 February, 2013
Hole on Mars, Artificial Bon, Largest Prime Number, Dinosaurs’ Extinction, Earth-Like Planets, Bacterial Gold, Needle-Free Vaccine, Mammal Tree of Life
Hole on Mars, Artificial Bon, Largest Prime Number, Dinosaurs’ Extinction, Earth-Like Planets, Bacterial Gold, Needle-Free Vaccine, Mammal Tree of Life
Dinosaurs’ Extinction, Artificial Bone, Alien Life, Birth Weight, Mammal Tree of Life
Today’s top science links — a new feature here on H+
Human enhancement and the future of work is a recently issued report destined to become a landmark in the history of Transhumanism and specifically human enhancement research.
Video and Transcript of the interview conducted with Dr. Randal A. Koene by Adam A. Ford at Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, 16 August, 2012. (The interview was part of the events surrounding the Singularity Summit Australia 2012.)
SIM stands for Substrate-Independent Minds. It is the notion that you can take the functions that are going on inside of our brain that produce mind and have them carried out in different kinds of implementations…
Ben Goertzel interviews Adam Ford about the upcoming Humanity+ @Melbourne (May 5-6 2012), which will feature Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More, Stelarc and many more inspiring speakers.
For those who are mystically inclined, 2011 is likely a year that is pregnant with significance. In fact, not merely pregnant — the birth of a new aeon is so near that, in the radiance of cosmic time — the new age baby should be sticking its head out of the womb right about now.
The idea of a coherent Transhumanist (H+) response to misrepresentation in the media, or indeed outright opposition to H+ ideas, is one that evolved in my mind over the past few years as a member of the UK Transhumanist Association (UKTA). However, it was not until we founded Zero State under the leadership of Dr Amon Twyman that anything came of it. His radical notion was that we actually do something instead of talk about it! This might seem a rather simple and obvious idea but it is far from that. It is a call to arms along the lines of: “…if not you, who? If not now, when?”, where the predominant ethos is: Just do it! This project is one of the first fruits, where I “just did it”.
“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.