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TURING'S OPTIMISM. "The prospect of Artificial Intelligence was raised as an issue for the general public from the very start, stimulated by the success of wartime science technology. In 1949 the brain surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson spoke out against it in a lecture 'The Mind of Mechanical Man'. In response, Turing told the London Times that 'their research would be directed to finding out... to what extent [the machine] could think for itself.' " http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html View in LinkedIn

DEAR READER, now we return back to the topic of programmable matter, after the titilating, but unsettling distractions of future sexuality. Almost as riveting. View in LinkedIn

SOMEWHERE in the world these cybernetic projects are under development. When you review the history of military and government experiments (earlier blogs) that have been undertaken, it becomes quaintly obvious that these experiments are being conducted. Right now. View in LinkedIn

TELEPATHY AND SMART DUST. Remember that extraordinary series of experiments between rats and humans (past blogs) where a human thought could twitch a rat tail, and two rats could jointly problem solve? Or a mind could drive a far distant machine by thought alone. Now lace in these Smart Dust and cybernetics. Brave New World. View in LinkedIn

FUTURE CYBERNETIC REPRODUCTION. Now we have come full circle to the parallel research going on with the artificial womb (earlier blogs). Combine this with our telepario companions of the future, and you step into a fully-fledged sci-fi movie, except, tomorrow (relatively speaking). With inducable electronic Smart Dust as the ubiquitous Orwellian Soma, lodged in your dopamine pleasure cells. View in LinkedIn

WHAT HAPPENED to our modern lives that we are jumping through hoops to avoid normal human relationships with our inevitable and unstoppable headlong rush to a cybernetic solution? Clearly an evolving subject, but one with a lurid glow. View in LinkedIn

TELEPARIO COMPANIONS. "The replicas would mimic the shape and appearance of a person or object being imaged in real time, and as the originals moved, so would their replicas." Combine with advanced AI, the ability to learn, nuance, and respond with appropriate emotional cues, these could make dating a thing of the past. Telepario meets Claytronics. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

CYBER LOVE. "If the idea of a ‘Dutch Wife’ turns you on, don’t worry. David Levy, American futurology expert and author of Love and Sex with Robots states that while ‘being loved’ by a robot sounds a bit weird, someday, for many people, being in love with a robot will be “just as normal” as being in love with a human." https://lnkd.in/eRFTM9c View in LinkedIn

BEYOND BONE HEALTH. "The classic function of vitamin D is to enhance intestinal absorption of calcium by regulating several calcium transport proteins in the small intestine." Now we realize that this complex molecule acts also on the nuclear genes rather like a hormone. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861286/ View in LinkedIn

2D GIRLFRIENDS are popular with Japanese men. "23.0% of 500 male otaku chose "2D" to the following question: "Which is your favorite kind of girl, 2D, 2.5D, or 3D?" 9.6% chose 2.5D, and 65.8% chose 3D. "2.5D" means mainly voice actresses, also includes 3D CG characters or character figures." https://lnkd.in/eJ-QErm View in LinkedIn