| iPlant philosophy: a model of the singularity?What happens when neruoscience dissolves the distinction between mind and body? What happens when the intimate, subjective and irrational human mind is fully integrated into the logic of science, and a stable, effective and lucid, yet decidedly neuroscientific model (M1) of the mind is realized? |
| Video Interview: Jamais Cascio on Global Problems, Convergent SolutionsCascio, "All of these [problems] are intrinsically connected. If you are to succeed in any one of them, you have to deal with the others…everything is connected. Fortunately, the solutions are connected as well…As these concepts become more commonplace, what happens is they disappear into the woodwork. They really become expectations." |
| The world of 2100 and beyond - Reaching for the StarsCool post by Dick Pelletier about what the next 100 years, considering "exponential advances in biotech, nanotech, infotech, and cognitive sciences [that] will enable humanity to evolve from a group of self-centered squabbling cultures to become a peaceful global village with amazing technological abilities." |
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