Following on the previous posts on the potential implication of increasing human thought capabilities, issues that will be examined by Derrick de Kerckhove in his keynote at the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Workshop on October 30th in San Diego in conjunction with TTM 2018. Make a point to be there and participate …
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Providing more resilience to the thinking activity (including more focus) Thinking activity, as any other brain process, is the result of the activation/deactivation of millions, billions neurones and synapses. In turns, these activation/deactivation is influenced by several chemical substances floating in the brain. Improving thinking activity therefore can be pursued …
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Using the brain as a co-processor As soon as we started having computers researchers tried to connect them together to leverage on the possibility of harvesting more processing power. Internet is the result of this idea: connecting computers (with their processing and data) in a seamless web that can be …
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Improving communications with the brain It is now close to 50 years that we have the idea of a Brain Computer Interface that could allow a communications between them. From the idea born in the seventies (as a technical concept to be investigated) huge steps forward have been made, particularly …
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Improving processing capabilities through focused stimulation Our brain, as any brain, is a processing and storage device with no clear separation between the two functions. In this sense it is quite different from a computer. Unlike a computer it does not have a “bus” rather a mesh of connections that …
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The increase of thinking capabilities can be pursued by: “engineering” a better “brain” (pretty though, since we do not know yet how it works nor how the genome is shaping it …) Improving processing capabilities through focused stimulation better exploiting its capabilities, including establishing better connection with it, feeding more pertinent …
Read More »Mixed Reality moves forward but it still does not look real…
Progress continues in developing more advanced devices to deliver “as real as it gets” sensation of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. If we look back just 2 years we are surprised at how much bulkier the devices were. The last one coming soon to market, the One Creator Edition from …
Read More »Magnetoencephalography goes on the move
In the quest to unravel the working of the brain scientists are using several kind of “sensors” to see how the brain works. Magnetoencephalography, an approach developed in the last century (1968), allows medical doctors and researchers to watch the brain electrical activity by sensing the magnetic field generated by …
Read More »Nano particles as sensor in the brain
Many feel that the next decade will be the one of the brain, reaching a tipping point where we will eventually understand how the brain works. A number of mega-projects are active each one following a slightly different approach. All of them require more raw data on what it is …
Read More »Awareness, Intention, Sentiment technologies in SAS – IV
Following on the previous posts in this series, a third area of awareness, covered in a specular way in the next subsection, relates to the potential perception of context and actions carried out by the “aware” entity by other entities. This is, by far, a higher level of awareness and …
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