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"Our ability to handle simultaneous complexity is governed by what cognitive scientists call "fluid intelligence," commonly defined as the ability to find meaning in confusion and to so

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"The single best thing about following a scene, any scene, closely is being in a position to uncover a diamond in the rough." SF Diplomat renders the point of me interviewing Peter Watts neg

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"The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders the brain, bashes neuroscience, and lays out a plan for superhuman robot servants." Via Plausible Futures.

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"Should we observe signs of consciousness in machines is it therefore logical to assume that society will naturally issue moral precepts of a similar weight onto our silicon-brained companions? I

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"In the future, there may exist robots that are programmed to mimic sentience, or even spontaneously generate sentientlike behaviors (not explicitly programmed in!), but are, in fact, non-sentien

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"Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip.&qu

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"Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself [...] The ability to build this "self-model"

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"In theory, mind uploading is a pathway to immortality [...] I'm betting that not only will it happen, but that it's possible that the writers are going to get there first." Is David Edelman

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"Consciousness is the defining feature of the human species. But is it possible that it is also no more than an extravagant biological add-on, something not really essential to our survival?"

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Online round-up of material about the well-known but poorly-understood Turing Test.

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Worldchanging are on a roll this week.

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Technology Review talks to leading AI boffin Marvin Minsky, on the 50th anniversary of artificial intelligence as a discreet field of study.

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Interesting stuff. Should add fresh fuel to the animal-testing debate, if nothing else.

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Does what it says on the tin; a serious essay on a serious subject. Link via Advanced Nanotechnology.

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National Geographic article about ayahuasca spiritual cleansing ceremonies...time to re-read McKenna's 'Food of the Gods' again!

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