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REAL EXCITEMENT. "This is just the beginning...The prospects of this are really endless.” (Brain-to-text technology). http://www.popsci.com/mind-reading-technology-turns-thoughts-text View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this brief sojourn into emergence. Because complexity and emergence occurs in non-biological systems, it has attracted great mathematical physicists, and they have also studied the biological manifestations of emergence, bringing fresh rigorous thinking to the subject. Biology is enormously enriched by their contributions. View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER CAUSATION AT PLAY. “The higher up the ladder of complexity one goes, the clearer this becomes; in particular, it is undeniable as regards the way the human mind operates, and in physiology.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

NEW CONSIDERATION. “In brief: the conclusion is that there are other forms of causation than those encompassed by bottom-up causation due to physics and physical chemistry processes considered on their own.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

INTERACTING CAUSALITIES. “The basic theme of this paper is that it is the interaction of bottom-up and top-down effects that enable the emergence of true complexity.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

DATA SUPPORTED. “Five essentially different classes of top-down causation can be identified, and their existence demonstrated by many real-world examples.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

BETWEEN STRATA. “Top-down’ causation is an interlevel concept: it applies between any two adjacent levels. Claiming such causation happens is agnostic as to whether there is or is not a topmost or lowest level.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY. "People are starting to wear more sensors, so brain sensors are just going to follow along in that trend.” https://lnkd.in/dCZRFdE View in LinkedIn

MIND THE GAP. “Some physicists and philosophers claim that from a fundamental viewpoint, higher levels are ‘nothing more than’ an aggregation of lower level phenomena, i.e. they will all emerge by coarse-graining. However, some higher level causally effective variables cannot be obtained in this way, as they are demonstrably not coarse grainings of lower level variables.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

LEARNING COACH. "Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach. The approach could help with learning any subject, Yuksel says – maths, engineering, programming, foreign languages or reading. It’s individually based, and that’s one of the big things we are searching for: to make learning more adapted to the individual.” https://lnkd.in/dCZRFdE View in LinkedIn