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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

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

THE OPTIONS. “What is the best way to build a conscious machine? Two complementary strategies come to mind: either copying the mammalian brain or evolving a machine." https://lnkd.in/dUt32Gf View in LinkedIn

"CONSCIOUSNESS is part of the natural world. It depends, we believe, only on mathematics and logic and on the imperfectly known laws of physics, chemistry, and biology; it does not arise from some magical or otherworldly quality." https://lnkd.in/dUt32Gf View in LinkedIn

TWO ASSUMPTIONS. "Assume, along with Hawking and Kurzweil, that it is plausible for the information in our heads to be digitized and stored somewhere else. And assume, as scientists now tend to do, that our minds are actually stored in our physical brains." https://lnkd.in/dNiwCAk View in LinkedIn

MIND PRESERVATION. "Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer — but not with technology existing today." https://lnkd.in/dNw2Cej View in LinkedIn

STEPHEN HAWKING. "I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer, so it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer and so provide a form of life after death." https://lnkd.in/dugqbTA View in LinkedIn

2030 GOAL. "According to some of the leading minds in the world, including Stephen Hawking, by 2030 we should have the capacity to upload a person's consciousness to a computer system. This would allow the human mind to live on in a virtually created world after the body has died, even interacting with other uploaded consciousnesses on the server." Now take a big breath. http://www.inquisitr.com/1883084/mind-trip-humans-to-live-forever-by-2030-as-persons-consciousness-could-be-uploaded-to-computer/ View in LinkedIn