Monstrous Musings of a Merry Mind

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June 2012

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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

– David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if...”

– Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales

“ “Memories are not static entities; over time they shift and migrate between...”

– Hugo Spiers is a neuroscientist and lecturer at the institute of behavioural neuroscience at University College London, What are memories made of?, The Guardian, Jan 14, 2012. (via amiquote)

Just Say No to Artificial Brains

Artificial brains won’t happen. Published on February 2, 2012 by Mark Changizi in Nature, Brain, and Culture I can feel it in the air, so thick I can taste it. Can you? It’s the we’re-going-to-build-an-artificial-brain-at-any-moment feeling. It’s exuded into the atmosphere from news media plumes (“IBM Aims to Build Artificial Human Brain Within 10 Years”)...