Link. Found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/wb44q/my_dual_nback_browsergame_is_ready_for/ From the author: > Quick notes: > > * If you experience any technical problems running the game, please let me know what browser and OS you're using. > * If you're unfamiliar with what Dual N-Back is, [1] this is a good place to start...
Located here: http://www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html Map 1: Can computers think? Map 2: Can the Turing test determine whether computers can think? Map 3: Can physical symbol systems think? Map 4: Can Chinese Rooms think? Map 5, Part 1: Can connectionist networks think? Map 5, Part 2: Can computers think in images? Map...
Link here. Al Jazeera website link for the video disinclined. A brief synopsis from the Al Jazeera website: > Cyborgs, brain uploads and immortality - How far should science go in helping humans exceed their biological limitations? These ideas might sound like science fiction, but proponents of a movement known...
Check it out here. Brief summary: Dawkins demonstrates a classic "Prisoner Dilemma AI tournament". No big surprise to us today, but at the time the revelation that Tit for Tat is one of -- if not *the* -- most effective strateg(y|ies) was a surprising result. He goes on to demonstrate...
For those not familiar with the topic, Torture vs. Dustspecks asks the question: "Would you prefer that one person be horribly tortured for fifty years without hope or rest, or that 3^^^3 people get dust specks in their eyes?" Most of the discussion that I have noted on the topic...
Encountered at: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/click-and-weep/scientific-literacy/
ICMS (intracortical microstimulation) was successfully demonstrated for inducing artificial sensory stimulation in rhesus monkeys. (This is a significant -- albeit miniscule -- step forward for data-in brain-computer interfaces.) -- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10489.html --