Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
I recently saw the author interviewed, and I’m really looking forward to reading this book.
After the Singularity, We’ll All Be Robots — Ray Kurzweil
The bottom line is we are one human-machine civilization. This technology has already expanded who we are and is going to go into high gear when we get to the steep part of the exponential.
Source: bigthink.com
[E. O. Wilson’s] new argument, in a nutshell, amounts to a frontal attack on long-accepted ideas about one of the great mysteries of evolution: why one creature would ever help another at its own expense.
Erase Traumatic Memories (and Achieve Your Own “Eternal Sunshine”)
Number 3 in Big Think’s series of dangerous ideas.
Source: bigthink.com
Phillip Zimbardo on the powers of time: The animation
A whimsical animation illustrating the effects of culture, language, religion and other factors on our perception of and relation to time.
Source: blog.ted.com
SpaceCollective
“Where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today.”
Source: spacecollective.org
