Best 2021 Articles

Dec 20, 2021Philosophy/Ethics, Tech0 comments

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In this millennium, we are witnessing the greatest scientific and technological revolution of all times and we are confronting ourselves with an unprecedented debate about Brain Regeneration, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroprosthesesz for brain function restoration and enhancement.

We understand the brain better and better, but there still is a lot to discover ( Uploading your mind )

With Carlo Ierna, historian of philosophy at Radboud University we have been making a journey across some history at the origins of contemporary technology, recent disruptive news about brain chip implant and robots replacing humans.

The articles draw the attention of the scientific community as well as the general audience to different topics and arising questions about uploading and downloading consciousness, whether it is possible to transfer information directly from one brain to another over the internet…

(from Captain Cyborg)

…the relation between body and mind, and mind and behavior.

(from Mind over Matter)

We have been investigating the origin of AI

A machine that could think like a person has been the guiding vision of AI research since the earliest days

(from Putting the “Artificial” in “Intelligence” )

(from Is thought just a program?)

(from The world is not a chessboard )

Things that Think

What do we mean by “thinking”? What are the technical requirements on the machine? Does it need to process information in the same way that humans do? Massively parallel, biochemically, etc. like a human brain?

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We analyzed the relation between

Robot and Humans

About the relation between body and mind, and the brain and the identity

(from My Brain is Me )

Can we read and write brain signals wirelessly now?

Will we truly be able to read and write memories, emotions, knowledge in the brain?

(from Read/write access to the brain? )

And then we have been looking at the relation between

Sci-fi and Science

“about the history of science fiction linked to the history of science” (Future of Days Past)

linking the history of science fiction to the history of science, exploring through the science fiction authors’ eyes how technology changes society.

Ethical and research standards have changed a lot…
We have some historical perspective, but we’d need ethics of technology…

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BrainJam addresses the social, ethical, and philosophical concerns deriving from the emergence of previously unimaginable technology and its possible future application to the most mysterious organ of the human body: The Brain.

This site is intended to engage in an open dialogue between scientists, society, and policy makers to address the philosophical and ethical concerns arising from the increasing trend of the biotechnology and biomedical fields towards man-machine hybridization. It pursues a holistic approach to human well-being using an interdisciplinary combination of expert perspectives and philosophy, in order to inform the public and correct widespread misconceptions and fears about ‘cyborgs’ and human enhancement, stemming both from transhumanism and bioconservatism.

Captain Cyborg

by Carlo Ierna | 04/12/2020 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

Even if we cannot upload our consciousness to the cloud, what if we could send our own sensations and memories to another person? Can we really transfer information brain-to-brain over the internet? Do we need to worry that this could turn us into remotely controlled puppets? Never fear! Captain Cyborg is here to test invasive technologies so you don’t have to!

Embodied Bodies

by Carlo Ierna | 15/01/2022 | Philosophy/Ethics, Robots and Robotics | 0 Comments

Once incorporated into a body, then, a prosthesis is no longer merely an object, in the sense that we can no longer straightforwardly deny that it has or plays a role in a person’s subjectivity

The Sum of the Parts vs the Whole

by Carlo Ierna | 24/01/2022 | Philosophy/Ethics, Research Projects, Robots and Robotics | 0 Comments

The firm should have the right to take back what it produced — the collection of artificial organs illegally masquerading as Mr Jones …

Human-Computer Symbiosis

by Carlo Ierna | 30/09/2021 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

The Mental Node

by Carlo Ierna | 08/05/2021 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

My view is that this gland is the principal seat of the soul, and the place in which all our thoughts are formed. The reason I believe this is that I cannot find any part of the brain, except this, which is not double …

Today one Neuron, tomorrow the Brain!

by Carlo Ierna | 04/07/2022 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

The Navy said the perceptron would be the first non-living mechanism capable of receiving, recognizing and identifying its surroundings without any human training or control

Natural Born Cyborgs

by Diana Martinescu | 15/10/2021 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

A Healthy Brain is a Joy Forever

by Carlo Ierna | 30/04/2021 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. [… ] And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us […] All these things we endure from the brain, when it is not healthy

Going Into a Limb

by Carlo Ierna | 31/01/2022 | Philosophy/Ethics, Research Projects, Robots and Robotics | 0 Comments

The distinction between a “tool” and a prosthesis that is implanted into the body is more apparent than real. …

The Mental Life of Brains

by Carlo Ierna | 18/06/2021 | Philosophy/Ethics, Tech | 0 Comments

Brains are alive, part of a living organism. Biology can tell us a great deal about how brains work qua living tissue.. But what can biology tell us is about what’s it like to be a brain, to have a brain, to feel, think, and want with a brain?

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