Automated Science

Sorry I haven’t blogged anything lately but with the run-up to Pesach my mind has been rather uncreative and unexpressive recently. This would be a good subject to blog about in itself, but many others have spilled many liters of ink on the subject already. Maybe I’ll manage to have a think about it and come [...]

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MRI Mind Reading

An article appears this morning in Technology Review about fMRI (that’s functional magnetic resonance imaging whatever that may be) being used to determine the contents of short term memory stored in people’s brains.
Subjects were shown one of two pictures and then using the fMRI, researchers attempted to determine which one they had seen. They isolated [...]

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The future of mankind

So tell me; are we all going to die or live for ever? Or maybe we’re going to mutate into super-computers?
Whichever, it looks like the next century is going to be an interesting one.

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