From: "ct" <tilley@...> ... I am searching for a highly definable newsbot. Please let me know if you have one to recommend. "Newsbots trawl the Web and...
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:08 pm
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Hi all, Can anyone provide me with a reference to the earliest description of mind uploading in a work of ficton, presumably science fiction? It is my...
Graham Hearn
ghearn@...
Mar 3, 2000 8:01 pm
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Graham Hearn writes: Charles Platt, "Silicon Man", but I'm sure Stanislav Lem predates this by decade(s)....
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:33 pm
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Hi Graham, First of all... what exactly do you mean by the "earliest description of mind uploading"? Does it have to be called "mind uploading", does it have...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 4, 2000 3:54 pm
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To be honest, if the issue of mind "transference" is the question, this clearly reaches back to ancient mythology and religion. The idea of moving the mind,...
Keith Wiley
keithw@...
Mar 4, 2000 3:59 pm
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... Hi all, this isn't really in answere to the above, but tangelntialy related. Anyone familiar with the strategy game Alpha Centaury? I recently played it...
Ansgar Koene
A.Koene@...
Mar 6, 2000 8:26 pm
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5. NEUROBIOLOGY: LONG-TERM POTENTIATION AND THE FORMATION OF SYNAPSES The various functions of the brains of animals and humans depend on connections between...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 8, 2000 4:50 am
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Thanks Eugene, Very interesting... so... instead of being merely reorientation of spines head surfaces or such, it appears that growth of new spines is...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 8, 2000 4:51 pm
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(((reformatted))) From: "Vita-More, Natasha" <NatashaVi@...> Scientists Map Pattern of Growth in Young Brains <<...>> Learning: Computer imaging...
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 10, 2000 10:22 pm
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Hi all, Robert Freitas new book "Nanomedicine" is available online for free at: www.nanomedicine.com (10 chapters, relatively detailed about nanotechnology) ...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 13, 2000 4:22 am
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3. NEUROBIOLOGY: ON BRAIN AND MIND One of the central questions in the life sciences is simply stated: How does the set of processes we call "mind" emerge from...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 14, 2000 9:39 pm
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From: Ranu Jung <jung@...> To: cneuro@... Subject: Postdoc in Neuromotor Control Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:45:24 -0500 POSTDOCTORAL...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 14, 2000 10:05 pm
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From: Stephen Grossberg <steve@...> To: cneuro@... Cc: steve@... Subject: Neural dynamics of 3-D surface perception: Figure-ground...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 14, 2000 10:28 pm
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From: Ted Carnevale <ted.carnevale@...> To: Computational Neuroscience group <cneuro@...> Subject: NEURON 2000 Summer Course Date: Wed, 08 Mar...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 14, 2000 11:38 pm
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fMRI resolution limitations and a means for increaing the resolution "Functional MRI WIll Enable Non-Invasive Visualization Of Brain" "Brain researchers...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 18, 2000 5:16 pm
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Hi all, My apologies. It appears the URL in the news story that was just submitted and reposted to MURG has a typo. The correct URL is: ...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 18, 2000 5:24 pm
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Brain Tissue resource for investigations into cellular and molecular processes. Possibly also of use for those working on scanning technology. "New Florida...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 18, 2000 5:45 pm
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Hi all, In case you've been wondering, you may have noticed that some of the "News" appearing on MURG recently is relatively old (late January onward). We (the...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 18, 2000 5:50 pm
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Hi again, Unfortunately the same typo was in the URL of the next News message. Correct URL follows: ...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 18, 2000 5:54 pm
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Bulletin on the Status of Mind Uploading (This bulletin is updated at minduploading.org/mu-status-bulletin.html and posted to the MURG mailing list on a...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 21, 2000 11:09 am
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From: "Alfonso Mora Corral" <almoraco@...> ... From: Neuroscion <info@...> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:24 AM Subject: Neuroscion: Latest...
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 21, 2000 3:03 pm
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Aaaaagh! That ancient bulletin again! Perhaps I should "outsource" updating that bulletin too. :) Cheers, Randal ...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 21, 2000 3:20 pm
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... So many bits, so little time ;)...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 21, 2000 4:11 pm
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From: "Steven J. Schiff" <sschiff@...> There will be an NIH sponsored 2 day conference on the role of Nonlinear Synchronization in Neuroscience. It will...
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 21, 2000 11:41 pm
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Hi Eugene, Looks interesting... I've been wondering for a while if all that non-linear control theory stuff (which can get quite complex in physics) that I was...
Hi all, Having just read Bill Joy's somewhat panicky outlook on the future at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html it occurs to me that we can...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 22, 2000 1:42 am
953
Hi Eugene, Soooo.... you've seen it too! :) (Oh, if you spotted mention of Joe Strout and a link to minduploading.org in the replies, I must admit that was my...
Randal Koene
randalk@...
Mar 22, 2000 1:44 am
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... Yeah, this has been essentially also my position for quite a few years now. A corollary of this would be to put up some slight inhibition on nanotechnology...
Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 22, 2000 1:54 am
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... It would seem a comforting idea to have nanotech and AI on the backburner, waiting to be unleashed when mind uploading is ready to safeguard what is...
