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SELF-RESPONSIVE. "The Artist Who’s Making Cybernetic Slime Mold Sing. Slime mold responds to external stimuli, so, upon hearing and seeing its own electrical signal, it reacts—creating a new and different electrical pattern. And so the process continues and the sound evolves into a cybernetic slime mold composition." http://singularityhub.com/2015/07/29/the-artist-whos-making-cybernetic-slime-mold-sing/ View in LinkedIn

SCALING DETAILS. “Across insectivore species, on the other hand, the cerebellum increases linearly in size as a function of its number of neurons (as in primates), while the cerebral cortex increases in size hypermetrically as it gains neurons (as in rodents).” https://lnkd.in/d2aUKat View in LinkedIn

SLIME MOLD EMOCIONS. "Ella Gale has created a link between slime mold "emotions" and a humanoid face. Gale let slime mold ooze across an environment full of both food and electrodes. The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

SCALING BY LINEAGE. “In contrast to rodent brains, which scale hypermetrically in size with their numbers of neurons, primate brain size increases approximately isometrically as a function of neuron number, with no systematic change in neuronal density or in the non-neuronal/neuronal ratio with increasing brain size.” https://lnkd.in/d2aUKat View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL TO ELECTRICAL INTERFACE. "The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other. Since slime mold possesses a kind of decentralized, low-level intelligence — a mass of mold can even form memories — that's not too far from studying the workings of a simple brain." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED LEARNING. "People from all backgrounds and of all ranges of ability will learn valuable new knowledge and skills more reliably and quickly, whether in school, on the job, or at home." https://lnkd.in/d8zQAx9 View in LinkedIn

SYN BIO AND BRAIN INTERFACE. “Downloading data directly into the brain. “Could hackers create a ‘computer virus’ that infects the human mind and turn victims into electronic zombies? Creating machine viruses that hack the brain and invade the human mind might sound like science fiction to some, but the real science is rapidly approaching. Synthetic biology—the ability to design artificial life—wedded to the emerging technology of man-machine interfacing creates a combination that is potentially deadly and one more than enough to whet the appetite of criminal hackers.” https://lnkd.in/dEPU6w6 View in LinkedIn

DOWNLOADING DATA TO THE BRAIN is the subject of the next section. It is one thing to try and analyze brain electrical activity and deduce patterns of thought or intention, daunting enough. It is quite another undertaking to try and concert digital data into a language that wet electrical and chemical neurons can understand. View in LinkedIn

THE INTERFACE. “Rapid conversion of chemical to electrical signals at the cell membrane is a hallmark of the animal nervous system." Neurotransmitters are Biomolecules that generate an electrical signal, giving the opportunity to digitize the signal using technology. https://lnkd.in/eTM3d8x View in LinkedIn

HOST EAVESDROPPING ON BACTERIA. "In addition to mediating chatter among different bacterial species, signals are clearly exchanged with or intercepted by eukaryotic hosts. Signals originally thought to be dedicated to interbacterial communication can be recognized by eukaryotes, inducing specific responses." http://jb.asm.org/content/187/16/5507.full View in LinkedIn