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Mind Downloading Mind Downloading, is related to mind uploading as a process in which the brain is hooked to a computer system, via brain-machine interface. However, unlike mind uploading, in which the user?s mind is transferred onto an artificial substrate; mind downloading flows the other way, downloading software from the artificial substrate into the brain. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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Results by page [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] ![]() A meme is basically an idea or concept that self-propagates. Like a virus, it spreads from host mind to host mind, mutating, changing, and passing from mind to mind via gossip and communication transference. In a way almost paralleling Darwinian selection the most successful ideas spread like a viral plague across populations, till almost everyone knows of them.
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
This book strays from the pack of works on AI, in launching the supposition that the mind is not a basically rational process distorted by emotion, or made more exciting by emotion, and instead embraces emotional states as just a different way to think, an expression of the mind no less valid than rational thought. A reconciliation of two conflicting visions of what a person is--one embedded in our humanistic traditions, the other advanced by mind science--from one of the most influential philosophers of our time. Debuted at CES 2009, mind flex is a Mattel thought controlled child's toy. Brainwaves are read to spin a fan faster or slower, to allow a ping-pong ball to navigate an obstacle course. ![]() Adapted from a lecture given by Marshall Brain at the 2nd Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, this resource looks at the concept of mind uploading - transferring a conscious mind into a computer - and tries to use common metaphors to explain the subject to the layperson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Results by page (10/10/2004)
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed on Thursday that the company's dual-screen DS handheld gaming console can download game data wirelessly, then play it back. "The Nintendo DS's greatest features are its revolutionar...
(03/07/2010)
Researchers have found daydreaming to be remarkably common -- and often quite useful. A wandering mind can protect you from immediate perils and keep you on course toward long-term goals. Sometimes daydreaming is counterprodu...
(11/10/2009)
By infiltrating a criminal computer network aimed at infecting visitors to legitimate websites, university researchers have gained firsthand insight into the scale and scope of so-called "drive-by downloading." They found more than 6,500 ...
(08/12/2009)
The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for a relatively modest set of actual...
(23/05/2012)
Psychologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have found evidence for the value of mind-wandering. The researchers presented 145 undergraduate students with two “unusual uses” tasks that gave them two minutes t...
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