Year: 2022

COUNTERFEIT LURES. “Similarly, other species can counterfeit signals. The female bolas spider lures male moths within reach of her sticky ‘bolas’ by synthesising convincing moth pheromones. She produces different pheromone blends through the night to match the different peak flight times of her victim moth species.” https://lnkd.in/drx5_4e View in LinkedIn

SEXUAL SURROGATES. “Plants too can use chemical trickery. Orchids have flowers that mimic the look and pheromones of a particular female bee or wasp species. The male insect attempts to mate, picks up a pollen package, and having been fooled once, is fooled again, delivering the package to a second orchid of the same species.” https://lnkd.in/drx5_4e View in LinkedIn

HUMAN PHEROMONES. “This ever interesting question remains unresolved. Sadly, though widely offered for sale, the putative human sex ‘pheromones’ androstadienone and estratetraenol (and androstenol and androstenone) have never been properly demonstrated to be pheromones. This has not stopped many studies claiming to show such effects, likely to be false positives since there are no reasons to even suspect these molecules are pheromones.” https://lnkd.in/drx5_4e View in LinkedIn

EERY SILENCE. “However, there might be a human mammary pheromone, suggested by the response of human babies to secretions from any lactating mother, not just their own. Babies suck in response to secretions from the areola gland around the nipple. These are being chemically investigated and, if the early observations are substantiated, could lead to the identification of the first human pheromone.” https://lnkd.in/drx5_4e View in LinkedIn

AUGMENTATION. "Memory enhancement, an increased range of senses, dieting control and thought communication will all be on the market, while technology to allow for multi-dimensional thought will be at the planning stage. All of these upgrades will be based on a direct link between a human and a machine brain. In this way the ever increasing power of machine intelligence can be used to provide an improvement in human capabilities, rather than allowing intelligent machines to make important decisions." https://lnkd.in/dAYaNJu View in LinkedIn

BIOBRAINS FOR ROBOTS. "The use of implant and electrode technology can be employed to create biological brains for robots, to enable human enhancement and to diminish the effects of certain neural illnesses. In all cases the end result is to increase the range of abilities of the recipients...a key element being the need for a clear interface linking a biological brain directly with computer technology." https://lnkd.in/dpw43bz View in LinkedIn

NON-ZERO CHANCE. "Brain emulation is a hypothetical but extremely transformative technology which has a non-zero chance of appearing during the next century." https://lnkd.in/dG_3bAD View in LinkedIn