Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain

"Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive."

Marvin Minsky:

No one finds it surprising these days when we make machines that do logical things, because logic is based on clear, simple rules of the sorts that computers can easily use. But Love, by its nature, some people would say, cannot be explained in mechanical ways — nor could we ever make machines that possess any such human capacities as feelings, emotions, and consciousness..."

"...emotional states are not especially different from the processes that we call 'thinking'..."(p.6)

"This study generates predictions about the evolutionary conditions conducive to the emergence of communication and provides guidelines for designing artificial evolutionary systems displaying spontaneous communication."

Floreano et al., Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots,Current Biology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058

"Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea."

Kevin Kelly. We are the Web. Wired. Issue 13.08 - August 2005

Keepon!

Hideki Kozima: "...somewhere between a robot and a living thing..."

NO EVIL ROBOTS

"Prevent evil robots from taking over the world:

Just say no to robot weapons and violent robot competitions."