uly 16, 2019: "Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. The goal is to eventually begin implanting devices in paraplegic humans, allowing them to control phones or computers.
24 April 2019 Nature "News and views": A brain–computer interface device synthesizes speech using the neural signals that control lip, tongue, larynx and jaw movements, and could be a stepping stone to restoring speech function in individuals unable to speak. A brain–computer interface synthesizes speech using neural signals.
To hear Musk tell it, Neuralink's hardware is either a state-of-the-art tool for understanding the brain, a clinical advance for people with neurological disorders, or the next step in human evolution
Mediapart 30/8/2018
La matière grise s’éclaircit. Dans les replis du néocortex, cette couche externe aux hémisphères cérébraux responsables de la transformation des sensations en perceptions, une équipe de 34 scientifiques internationaux vient de repérer un nouveau type de neurones. Pour penser, l’homme ne dispose pas seulement de cellules pyramidales (excitatrices) et multipolaires (inhibitrices), mais aussi de cellules en forme […]
August 27, 2018
Heard on Morning Edition
Jon Hamilton 2010
An image of a rosehip neuron (top) and a connecting pyramidal cell (bottom).
Tamas Lab/University of Szeged
Scientists have taken another step toward understanding what makes the human brain unique.
An international team has identified a kind of brain cell that exists in people but not mice, the team reported Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
"This particular type of cell had properties that had never actually been described in another species," says Ed Lein, one of the study's authors and an investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.
Torill Kornfelt , Sveriges radio, veteskapsradion 16 jan 2015 ca 15 min.
Ett förgiftat äpple låg bredvid Alan Turing när han hittades död i sin säng, bara 41 år gammal. Då hade han hunnit lägga grunden för moderna datorer med ...
There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.
by Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath
"Targeted advertising allows a campaign to say completely different, possibly conflicting things to different groups. Is that democratic?"
"Cambridge Analytica isn’t the only company that could pull this off -- but it is the most powerful right now. Understanding Cambridge Analytica and the bigger AI Propaganda Machine is essential for anyone who wants to understand modern political power, build a movement, or keep from being manipulated. The Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine it represents has become the new prerequisite for political success in a world of polarization, isolation, trolls, and dark posts. "
2011. "These days at the I.B.M. Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., there is not a lot of talk of reverse-engineering the brain. Wide-ranging ambitions that narrow over time, Dr. Modha explained, are part of research and discovery, even if his earlier rhetoric was inflated or misunderstood.
“Deciding what not to do is just as important as deciding what to do,” Dr. Modha said. “We’re not trying to replicate the brain. That’s impossible. We don’t know how the brain works, really.” "
“chip-first as an organizing principle gave us a coherent plan.”
"In designing chips that bear some structural resemblance to the brain, so-called neuromorphic chips, neuroscience was a guiding principle as well. Brains are low-power, nimble computing mechanisms — real-world proof that it is possible."
According to Adobe, after about 20 minutes of listening to a voice, users can make the voice say whatever they want just by typing it out. Comedian and director Jordan Peele hosted the event and Adobe tech Zeyu Jin demoed the process by editing an interview with Peele’s comedic partner Keegan-Michael Key. Jin took existing audio of Key, then used the software to make him talk about making out with Peele instead of his wife.
Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music.
By Daniel A. Gross March 10, 2016
DANCING BY YOURSELF: Critics who lament that “silent discos” symbolize individualism and the breakdown of community are missing the full picture of music’s social powers.
"Technology hasn’t diminished the social bonds of music. On the contrary, we’ve created and adapted technology to enhance them."
Brev till Oldenburg (länkat från Mikael Hörnqvists introduktio till Spinoza http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/idehist-spinoza.htm): "... how and why I think that the human body is a part of nature. As regards the human mind, I believe that it als
av Martha Cullberg Weston "han visar att det i hjärnan finns en ”som-om-kroppskrets” som gör det möjligt för oss att spegla hur en annan person känner. "
TED Talk 2008. "Humans are the Pandoran species" The evolutionary algorithm (principle) of universal Darwinism. "The best idea that anybody ever had" . Explains all design. Variation, selection, heredity. Necessity. Dawkins on the selfish gene: Inform
Nicholas Carr, The Atlantic "What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind. " "Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “conten