Ex Machina, et al, and the Metaphysics of Computer Consciousness
How can something with neither mass nor dimension arise from that which has mass and dimension? How can that which has subjectivity and intentionality arise from that which has objectivity and has no intentionality?
Global Brains & Singularities: Cadell Last & Michael Garfield Debate The Technopocalypse
Cadell Last is an evolutionary anthropologist at the Global Brain Institute and producer of the PBS Digital Studios series The Advanced Apes. We discussed the possibility that our entire planet is waking up as a single super-intelligent organism, and the consequences – both light and dark – for both humankind and the whole biosphere…
Injecting New Data Into Our Brain Is Possible
Through technological augmented, Dr. David Eagleman believes we can expand our sensory channels and gain access to new data streams.
Higgs Boson Glimpsed at Work For the First Time
The Higgs boson has finally been glimpsed by scientists working at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), affirming the missing piece in today’s standard model of particle physics.
Anatomy students swap corposes for 3D-printed organs
A US team wants to help train doctors with 3D-printed body parts, rather than cadavers.
Girl, Interconnected
Glenn McDonald at Omni Reboot tells us why “Her” is more than just a movie about a man falling in love with his computer.
io9 Shares With Us the Worst Lies Told about the Singularity
George Dvosrsky dispels some of the common misconceptions surrounding the “Technological Singularity.” It’s bigger and freakier than you think.
Jasun Horsley Takes on Transhumanism
In his inaugural column on Omni Reboot, RS Author Jasun Horsley goes toe to toe with Ray Kurzweil, challenging the Singularity’s high profile proponent on some of the movement’s fundamental assumptions.
Manifesting in Meat Space
The next time you get angry about the evils of the system, notice
how good it feels. That feeling wants destruction, conflict and brutality as goods unto
themselves. Understand that the best practice is the cultivation of your
own consciousness.
The Evolution of Surveillance, Part 1: Burgess Shale to Google Glass
Today we're privileged to have more senses, reaching into more dimensions, moving faster and farther than life has ever gone before. Our modern myth of the origin of the eye gives us a rhetorical lens through which to see ourselves.
