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This is an interesting article on the possibility that our brains see into the future. If the study isn't tainted in some way then it seems to be the case.

They tested people by flashing different images in front of them, some of t… Continue

After watching the boy with the incredible brain I started to delve deeper into the realm of brains and intelligence. I came across some interesting articles on brain enhancement research and it kind of shocked me. I knew that there was some research on intelligence and memory in the brain but I didn't realize that they had actually found the genes involved with memory in mice. If those are the same in humans then we could actually improve our memories with a little genetic tweak. The world woul… Continue

I've been listening to what Nick Bostrom and Max Moore has been saying lately and it's got me thinking about what it is to be human and what that means for the future of "humanity". It seems to be that we really can't as a species continue on the path we have before us and remain "human". I don't mean human as in physically or even just speeding up our thought processes and intelligence. In the end I think it will require rewriting the structure of our brains to really alt… Continue

I think you could likely count on one hand the number of positive science fiction movies in the last 30 or 40 years. There must be something in the water that makes people in general see technology and the future in a negative light. They see fewer rights and freedoms when we have seen an ever increasing movement towards social democracy around the world. They see technological destruction of the environment when we have seen the promise of clean energy and cleanup of the environment through thi… Continue

Being that this is my first post I suppose I should set out to explain my posting style which is more of a free flow of ideas than any coherent discussion of a particular idea. This sadly stems from my chronic ADHD which I have suffered from my entire life. So if it seems like I jump around quit a bit and sometimes come back to ideas I already covered earlier that would be why. With that in mind...

It seems to me that the term transhumanist has become something of a pejorative term amon… Continue