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  Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ Magazine

  When surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...

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  Your Brain on Books. How the mind makes sense of written language | Scientific American

  In his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” neuroscientist S. Dehaene describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. (...) We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent ...

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  Born to Perform. The ability to keep cool depends on how your brain is wired by Joshua Gowin | Psychology Today

  Some people seem to be naturals, born performers, so what makes them different? The ability to remain calm could be due to the structure of the brain. "Stage manager asked McCartney, "Are you nervous? "No, not really." "You should be, there are over 70 million people watching." (...) The ...

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  Handbook of Collective Intelligence | MIT Center for collective intelligence

  This Handbook provides a survey of the field of collective intelligence, summarizing what is known, providing references to sources for further information, and suggesting possibilities for future research. The handbook is structured as a wiki, a collection of on-line pages, editable by their readers....

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  How Culture Shapes Our Mind and Brain by Meghan Meyer | Brain Blogger

  Most people would agree that culture can have a large effect on our daily lives — influencing what we may wear, say, or find humorous. But many people may be surprised to learn that culture may even effect how our brain responds to different stimuli. Indeed, until recently, most psychology and ...

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