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CONTRARIANS. “Opponents hold that there is no such thing as intelligence, or at least that there is no single thing. On this view, there are many different ways of evaluating cognitive agents, no one of which deserves the canonical status of “intelligence”.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

THE MERGING. “A new concept, Psychroneity, is introduced to explain the psychological process by which humans actively construct and interact with their own technology to increase their functional capacities, enhance their life experiences, and to effectively transform themselves, and their social and physical environments. Implication for understanding the emergence of the high-tech self, a new evolutionary perspective (i.e., constructive selection), and new directions in future social scientific research are discussed.” https://lnkd.in/dDazPfk View in LinkedIn

THE CORE. “It is widely held that there is such a thing as “general intelligence”, often labeled g, that lies at the core of cognitive ability and that correlates with many different cognitive capacities.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

NONLINEAR PROCESS. “One of the limitations of the Central Dogma (and, for that matter, the abstract description of a digital computer as a Von Neumann Machine), is that the abstract representation suggests a linear process: one sequence of DNA leads to one mRNA leads to one protein. Clearly, in terms of the cell, this is not the case. The cell manages multiple processes concurrently rather than as a single threaded sequence.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

SEER. “It’s easy to underestimate what the future will bring.” https://lnkd.in/eDmX9xW View in LinkedIn

USING DATA. “Translation of stored information to usable information. This property refers to the mechanisms by which the information on the storage medium device is actually retrieved and passed to the rest of the information processing machinery, i.e. for the subsequent use of the information.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend series on prions. They reproduce and evolve into different strains. Yet they are simply naked proteins. Is it ridiculous to ask if this is an organism? If you thought that the debate about viruses being alive was quaint, then prepare yourself for a bigger paradigm breaker. As a community, biologists have failed to define life, and thus the search for new life is deeply flawed. Time to get to grips with the basics? View in LinkedIn

THE POSSIBILITIES. “Imagine what will become possible when we upgrade our tools to really open the channel between the human brain and modern electronics,” https://lnkd.in/eQQUF-c View in LinkedIn

SYNERGIES OF CONVERGENCE. “Many observers believe that the “converging technologies” of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technologies, and cognitive science (NBIC) could lead to radical and pervasive enhancements of human abilities.” https://lnkd.in/etryxUw View in LinkedIn