Machines Like Us is an artificial intelligence blog that I read. I found this story there — mimicking the brain, in silicon by Anne Trafton. Here is an excerpt: With about 400 transistors, the silicon chip can simulate the activity of a single brain synapse — a connection between two neurons that allows information to flow from one to the other. The researchers anticipate this chip will help neuroscientists learn much more about how the brain works, and could also be used in neural prosthetic devices such as artificial retinas, says Chi-Sang Poon, a principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Read more »
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By Bruce Eisner
Who is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? RAW and Reality Tunnels
Link for this Post is the above YouTube Video
I found this video while working on the book Memes for a New Culture which is happening on the main Vision Thing Blog. I have been struggling this afternoon to to make a transition from my rap about Lao Tsu’s “The Tao That Can Be Named is Not the Eternal Tao” to belief systems, while avoiding talking about memes or consciousness which are coming up later in the book. What I am attempting to get at is a more precise way of describing what my old friend, the late Robert Anton Read more »
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Terence McKenna Bibliography Site Contains Large Variety of Media by the Late Author
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- Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open LibraryLink for this Post: Read the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary at the Open Library In April 1995, I moderated a panel at an event called the Whole Life Expo in San Fransisco, California called "The Future of Consciousness." Among the panel members was Timothy Leary. There was quite a bit of attention on Dr. Leary that afternoon. Earlier in […]
- Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle DaySixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the […]
