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  Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain - life - 29 June 2009 - New Scientist

  HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational ...

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  h+ Magazine Summer 2009 Issue

  Futurist Heroes Prepare for Acceleration Wearing the Internet Fast Blasts AI: Brain-Computer Interfacing Forever Young: Smart Biology to the Rescue Bio: Roger Pederson, Won't you Please Come Home? Enhanced: Optogenetics The Great Designer Baby Controversy of '09 Any Miah, Sports Doping, and the ...

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  Wolfram|Alpha: Searching for Truth | h+ Magazine

  Stephen Wolfram talks with Rudy Rucker about his Upcoming Release Stephen Wolfram has warped my life three times, and now here comes a fourth. When I first interviewed him in 1984, he converted me to his belief that everything in the world resembles a certain kind of parallel computation ...

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  Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve - tech - 04 February 2009 - New Scientist

  LIVING creatures took millions of years to evolve from amphibians to four-legged mammals - with larger, more complex brains to match. Now an evolving robot has performed a similar trick in hours, thanks to a software "brain" that automatically grows in size and complexity as its physical body ...

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  Freeman: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality

  Abstract "To explain how stimuli cause consciousness, we have to explain causality. We can't trace linear causal chains from receptors after the first cortical synapse, so we use circular causality to explain neural pattern formation by self-organizing dynamics. But an aspect of intentional ...

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