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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

SECONDARY GAINS. “Broadcast signals like pheromones can be ‘eavesdropped’. When researchers in California put out traps to fieldtest bark beetle aggregation pheromones (which attract conspecifics of both sexes), they were surprised to also catch 600,000 predatory beetles. It was later found that the predators had evolved olfactory receptors highly sensitive to their prey’s pheromones.” View in LinkedIn

FUTURE PEST CONTROLS. “So far, pest moths and beetles have been the main targets. In the future, nematodes and insect vectors of disease might be managed by their pheromones. Lampreys which ravage Great Lake fisheries might soon be lured into traps by their pheromones. Rodent pheromones might one day replace toxic rodenticides.” https://lnkd.in/drx5_4e 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

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

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