Can we transfer information directly from one brain to another? And then link multiple brains into a hive-mind like the Borg? Could acquire new information without having actually to learn it? Experiments on rats seem to suggest that we can transfer memories from one brain to another, even when linking them over the internet.

You young badgers imagine that it would be enough to smear a pound of paint on the canvas and you’re already a modern painter. I would be willing to accept this abomination for a bad joke, if there was even the slightest humor behind it. But this here is an abracadabra! A nothing!

Rodney Brooks (MIT) introduces Nouvell AI, also called fundamentalist AI. He compares and contrasts his Nouvell AI with the then-mainstream…

In the development of information technology there now seems to exist a new phase whereby the aim is to replicate many of these “neural” functions artificially

I’m dead, my body is dead but I still live… I am this machine… these racks of apparatus are my brain, which is thinking even as yours is

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? …

Our first step in understanding the mind, is to understand neurons …

Cognition is nothing but computation …

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.

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!