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Cognitive Astrobiology

January 3, 2018December 29, 2017 DanielToker 3 Comments Astrobiology, Cognitive, Cognitive Astrobiology, Diana Reiss, ET, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Intelligence, Jellyfish, NASA, Psychology, SETI, Space, Spaceflight

o here’s a cool combination of fields: neuroscience and astrobiology. Let’s call it “cognitive astrobiology.”… Read more

Artificial Intelligence Multilingual Neuro SciFi Philosophy

Will Artificial Intelligence Fall in Love?

November 15, 2017October 31, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 1 Comment AI, androïdes, androids, Artificial Intelligence, artificiellement intelligents, cortical-subcortical networks, Dolores Test, Emotion, facteur g, g factor, Intelligence, L'émotion, l'intelligence, Love, Luiz Pessoa, Philip K. Dick, PKD, réseaux cortico-sous-corticaux, Science Fiction, Westworld

n a few months, millions of viewers will return to Westworld, the HBO original series about artificially intelligent androids inhabiting a Western theme park. The show, based on a 1973… Read more

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Reverse Engineering the Brain

October 25, 2017November 21, 2017 Joel Frohlich 0 Comments BBP, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bewusstsein, Blue Brain Project, complexity, Consciousness, Das Gehirn nachbauen, David Marr, emergence, emergent properties, emergente Eigenschaften, Gehirn, HBP, Henry Markham, Hirnforscher, human brain project, IBM, Intelligence, Intelligenz, levels of analysis, Mandelbort set, Marr's levels of analysis, models, Neurowissenschaft, Neurowissenschaftler, Nichtlinearität, nonlinearity, orphan receptors, Reductionism, Reduktionismus, reverse engineering, Selbstorganisation, Self-organization, supercomputer, tripartite synapse, Waisenrezeptoren

Can we learn everything about the brain by studying individual brain cells? It started with a simple equation. In 1980, a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot working for IBM plotted the… Read more

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The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part III: Flowers for Algernon

May 31, 2017October 29, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Camp Concentration, Charlie Gordon, CRISPR, Daniel Keyes, Experiment, Flowers for Algernon, Intelligence, IQ, Louis Sacchetti, Nootropics, phenylketonuria, Science Fiction, Thomas M. Disch, Thought

In Part II of this series, we considered artificial intelligent in the context of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel and Stanley Kubrik’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Space Odyssey, intelligence… Read more

52 Brain Facts

Myth or fact? A highly centralized nervous system is necessary for intelligent behaviors.

December 7, 2015 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Autonomous, Intelligence, Knowing Neurons, Nervous, Octopus, Tool

Artificial Intelligence Did You Know? Neuroscience Technologies

The Turing Test: Is that Human or Machine?

August 19, 2015July 10, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 2 Comments 2015, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computing machinery and intelligence, Eugene Goostman, Geman, Human, Imitation Game, Intelligence, Machine, PNAS, Turing Test, Visual Turing Test

I propose to consider the following question, ‘Can machines think?’ Thus begins Alan Turing’s paper “Computing machinery and intelligence.” It’s 1950 England, and the world’s first computer is being used… Read more

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