linkedin post 2020-04-29 04:16:05
MIND UPLOADING. "Among some futurists and within the transhumanist movement, mind uploading is treated as an important proposed life extension technology. Some believe mind uploading is our current best option for preserving who we are as opposed to cryonics. Another aim of mind uploading is to provide a permanent backup to our "mind-file", and a means for functional copies of human minds to survive a global disaster or interstellar space travels." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-29 04:13:41
BEATING MOORE'S LAW. "In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's iconic observation that computing power tends to double — and that its price therefore halves — every 2 years has held true for nearly 50 years with only minor revision." https://lnkd.in/dGcvNvY View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-29 04:12:01
GENOME ANALOGY. "The price of sequencing an average human genome has plummeted from about US$10 million to a few thousand dollars in just six years." And soon, it will cost $1,000. https://lnkd.in/dGcvNvY View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-29 04:10:03
5,000 TIMES REDUCTION. Going from projected "several centuries" to "several weeks" of analytic time in the human Connectome Project is completely analogous to the Human Genome Project, where time and cost to sequence DNA plummeted as technology advanced. It also underscores the absolute unreliability of technology forecasts.” http://www.popsci.com/article/science/neuroscientist-who-wants-upload-humanity-computer View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-01 03:57:48
UPLOADED WORM. "How far away are we from uploading the first mind? A worm's mind has already been uploaded, but their brains work in a very different way to mammals. But, in ten years, I think it'll be possible to upload the mind of a fruit fly. From thereon, the human brain is a little hard to predict, but I really hope it will be in my lifetime." http://www.vice.com/read/randal-koene-brain-uploading-438 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-30 04:08:00
A FEW LITTLE PREDICTIONS. "The progress of biology, neuroscience and computer science makes it clear that some time during the twenty-first century we will master the technologies of mind and life. We will build machines more intelligent than ourselves, and modify our own brains and bodies to increase our intelligence, live indefinitely and make other changes." (Bill Hibbard). https://lnkd.in/d3NdcHS View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-02 05:54:36
THE LOGIC. “There exists also a limited domain in parameter space (in which costs to mate finding are moderate), in which collapse from four mating-types to three is possible, but the collapse from three to two is not. If costs to not finding a mate are high then it is expected that gametic fusion should be abandoned for a system in which nuclei are exchanged but cytoplasm is not.” http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/263/1369/415.short View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-02 05:53:05
CYTOPLASMIC GENES. “Species with two mating-types coordinate uniparental inheritance of cytoplasmic genes more efficiently than do those with three, then, assuming the costs to mate finding are not too high, evolution from three to two sexes is expected as a response to the invasion of a costly selfish cytoplasmic factor that disrupts the normal pattern of inheritance.” http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/263/1369/415.short View in LinkedIn