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POPSwith nothing to guide their way- people really do walk in circles it happened to me once-- lost in the woods in the dark- if i hadn't emptied some of the stuff out of my back-pack and walked back past it- while on my probably 3rd or 4th circle of trying to get out of where I was- I never would have known it without coming across my things- geesh- and that helped me to know- i had just been looping all of that time..grrrr
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POPSThe paints of Colour-blind artist. Colour-blind artist learns to paint by hearing A COLOUR-BLIND artist who could only recognise black and white shades has learnt how to paint with a full palette by “hearing” the hues he cannot see. Neil Harbisson, 25, has been fitted with a device called an Eyeborg, which converts 360 colours into different sounds. As an art student at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, he painted only in black and white because that is all he saw. But three years ago he met Adam Montandon, a cybernetics expert who came to give a lecture at the college. After the talk, Montandon was told of Harbisson’s condition and he took up the challenge of solving the problem, enabling Harbisson to paint in colour. The artist suffers from achromatopsia – or complete congenital colour blindness.
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POPSRobot controlled by own biological brain They used rat neurones. Maybe we'll discover what rats have been thinking, or how the nature of thinking varies from species to species, if and what significant 'character' differences there are. We may even find rats have the potential to be much smarter than we thought they were. The neurons act in response to stimuli. Maybe the best way to describe them is 'curious' It can be fairly certain there will be no official testing with human neurones, but there will be testing. I also wonder if the instinct for self preservation goes that deep - Sounds like the kind of thing that would interest the military.
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POPSThe future of Mind Control research is showing that the brain can act independently of the body. One day, you could be sitting in an office and controlling a device from across the room—or in another building. And it’s not just flicking a switch. It could be a nanotool that’s moving through a tiny environment, and you can control it and see what it’s seeing.” That kind of extension could lead to new spectrums of scale and force, not to mention new kinds of sensory input altogether. Instead of merely imagining that you’re grasping a nanotool with virtual fingers, you could learn to pilot it like a minuscule spaceship—only with your mind. And if that device had any sensors, you might be able to process the data as though it were a tiny camera.
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POPSI am a transhumanist, thanks I say, fear not. If you have clearly transhumanist beliefs, like the notion that human enhancement is coming in the next few decades and will be a big deal, then don’t be afraid to call yourself one. As Dr. Wittgenstein, one of my favorite philosophers ever, used to argue, words are just labels we fill with our own content. To think that a word has any inherent meaning aside from its use in language is absurd.
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POPSA Speech Center of the Monkey Brain Has Been Found! The researchers played recorded coos, grunts, and other vocalizations made by macaques, but also other animals and natural sounds like thunder and running water. A small area of the macaques' temporal lobes turned on only in response to macaque voices, being insensitive to other sounds. The nucleus could differentiate the voices of individual macaques: its activity decreased when the researchers played several times a monkey's voice, but it was boosted by a new played voice.
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POPSRandomly-generated 'scientific paper' accepted Starting with skeleton sentences, pools of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and a random assortment of computer science jargon, the program produced a grammatically correct yet utterly nonsensical paper titled: "Rooter: a methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy". :)
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