We could build an artificial brain that believes itself to be conscious. Does that mean we have solved the hard problem?
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New Horizons Update: Latest Pluto Images Reveal ‘Tantalizing’ Surface Features
After a journey of over nine years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is finally close enough to discern surface features on the cold, dwarf planet.
From MIT’s Neri Oxman, The (Far-Flung) Future Of Wearables — Julie Taraska | Fast Company
“In a series of concept wearables that augment human biological systems, Oxman implants synthetically engineered microorganisms in custom-designed vessels. Worn externally, these devices…create the resources that an interplanetary traveler would need to survive in other climates. ‘Our goal was to design wearables that could have a symbiotic relationship with the human body.’” Read more
3-D-printed robot is hard inside, soft outside, and capable of jumping without hurting itself
Left: the rigid top fractures on landing, while the top made of nine layers going from rigid to flexible remains intact (credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego, Harvard University)
Neuroscientists create organic-computing ‘Brainet’ network of rodent and primate brains — humans next
Experimental apparatus scheme for a Brainet computing device. A Brainet of four interconnected brains is shown. The arrows represent the flow of information through the Brainet. Inputs were delivered (red) as simultaneous intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) patterns (via implanted electrodes) to the somatosensory cortex of each rat. Neural activity (black) was then recorded and analyzed in real time. Rats were required to synchronize their neural activity with the other Brainet participants to receive water. (credit: Miguel Pais-Vieira et al./Scientific Reports)
Secrets of Bear Hibernation Could Help Us Get to Mars
By studying bears’ months-long lethargy, scientists may have stumbled on a way to prevent astronauts’ bone loss.
The Art of Time | The Plus
Art and photography often dovetail nicely, to the point of being indistinct at times. But rarely does photography achieve the sort of free-flowing, brush-like effects that Matt Molloy imbues his incredible Time Stack photographs with. “My time stack series is a lot like a digital version of what the impressionist painters where trying to achieve in the 19th-century,” says Matt.
EVA Movie Trailer (Science Fiction — 2015)
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The Future of the Web Looks a Lot Like Bitcoin — Morgen E. Peck | IEEE Spectrum
“We lack ‘true agency’ on the Internet. That is to say, all of the data we create online and all of the operations we execute are handled for us by centralized servers, most of which sit in massive data centers operated by corporations and government institutions. We depend on these servers for everything.”