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MIT Researchers Develop Silcon Chip That Mimics the Human Brain Neuron

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

In The Province Of The Mind on Thinking Allowed John C. Lilly, M.D.

Link for this Post: Transcript of Dr. John Lilly Interviewed by Jeffery Mishlove

I found this written transcript of a long defunct television show called Thinking Aloud. I did not research its origins thoroughly but my guess it is from 1976 or so. The reason I believe this (no pun intended) is that I did my first newspaper interview around that time for a small LA Underground newspaper around then and it was with Dr. Lilly.

He had just completed the same book, The Center of the Cyclone which he talks about extensively in the interview. I found it while looking Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

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