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Randal Koene on Substrate-Independent Minds
By: Randal Koene, Ben Goertzel
Published: August 31, 2011
Dr. Randal Koene is a cross-disciplinary scientist whose background spans computational neuroscience, psychology, information theory, electrical engineering and physics. Currently serving as Director of Analysis at Halcyon Molecular, working on breakthrough methods in DNA sequencing and other projects, he was previously Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at Tecnalia, the third largest private research organization in Europe, and a professor at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University. He’s also been perhaps the world’s most vocal, steadfast and successful advocate of the idea of “mind uploading” or, as he now prefers to call it “substrate-independent minds.” Putting a human brain in a digital computer, for example – or in general making practical technology for treating minds as patterns of organization and dynamics, rather than being tied to particular physical implementations. His websites minduploading.org and carboncopies.org contain valuable information for anyone interested in these subjects – and in this interview he gives a wonderful overview of the current state and future prospects of R&D regarding substrate-independent minds.
Randal Koene on Substrate-Independent Minds
By: Randal Koene, Ben Goertzel
Published: August 31, 2011
Dr. Randal Koene is a cross-disciplinary scientist whose background spans computational neuroscience, psychology, information theory, electrical engineering and physics. Currently serving as Director of Analysis at Halcyon Molecular, working on breakthrough methods in DNA sequencing and other projects, he was previously Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at Tecnalia, the third largest private research organization in Europe, and a professor at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University. He’s also been perhaps the world’s most vocal, steadfast and successful advocate of the idea of “mind uploading” or, as he now prefers to call it “substrate-independent minds.” Putting a human brain in a digital computer, for example – or in general making practical technology for treating minds as patterns of organization and dynamics, rather than being tied to particular physical implementations. His websites minduploading.org and carboncopies.org contain valuable information for anyone interested in these subjects – and in this interview he gives a wonderful overview of the current state and future prospects of R&D regarding substrate-independent minds.
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/31/r...-koene-on-substrate-independent-minds
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émanation du laboratoire CLEO de Marseille
http://www.openedition.org/catalogue-notebooks
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A Software for Brain Computer Interfaces and Real Time Neurosciences
Projet de l'INRIA
Projet de l'INRIA
http://openvibe.inria.fr/video.php?q=video-openvibe-introduction-en
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« Current research (PhD) is about hackers and hacktivism. (...) Conflicts and wars are not won only with supreme military power or coercive advantage. Corporations do not become economical giants by producing more and more commodities. Spreading information about different events around the world is not anymore totally controlled by conventional media organizations. Political discourse does not occur only in newspapers and between nations. Our world is about the flow of information and networks. Or as Lash puts it "now domination is through the communication. The communication is not above us, even as disciplinary power is. It is instead among us. We swim in its ether"(Lash, 2007, 66). »
http://www.uta.fi/~jm60697/research
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http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/6-4/6-4index.htm
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