First Snapshot: Programmed bio-computers. None of us can escape our own nature, our nature as programmable entities. Each one of us can literally be nothing more than our programs; nothing …
Semantic technology: the restructure of meaning
Sometimes on the internet we are asked to prove that we are not robots. This usually happens when creating accounts on various platforms or when identifying ourselves upon entering them. …
Robotic melancholy
When it premiered, in 2016, it cut a big swath… “Her” company, Hanson Robotics, based in Hong Kong, specializes in high social intelligence machines. As self-presented on its website: Robots …
where is your mind?
The inventor is an american, studied at Harvard. His name is Han Bicheng, and his start-up BrainCo. His invention is sensors that by resting on the forehead “catch electrical signals” …
Neuralink
You may easily be about a century behind. He is certainly not a successful businessman either, but that’s how he is considered (the parallel realities, you see!). He stands very …
Let’s finish with digital immigrants!
Among other things, the provisions made for returning to schools this year include health examinations, “thorough cleaning”, gloves and masks, demarcation of space and time, tele-procedures and tracing protocols. One …
the internet and the death of criticism
Our planet is a sphere, or rather a flattened sphere, slightly compressed at the poles and a bit wider at its equator; anyway, real planets have their curves. But our …
Paris 2020
Displays. In Paris. As a ritual invocation to an unknown god, tens of thousands of remote controls of daily life ascend to the night sky – for the sake of …
“I can read your thoughts”…
Zuckerberg and Musk impersonate the “Knights of the Apocalypse”: among other things, they invest in the “interface” between human neurons and machines. But they are, in essence, the advertisers of …
DARPA wants to create weapons controlled directly by the mind
Last year, the American DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announced that it seeks to find non-invasive ways “to achieve high levels of communication between brain and mechanical systems without …
the “philosophical” concerns of the mechanization of everything
At the beginning of the 21st century, the problematization of consciousness, in other words the formulation of questions such as “what is consciousness?”, could not belong to what has historically …
How is consciousness explained?
Right now you have a movie playing in your head. It’s an incredible movie with multiple pieces. It’s three-dimensional, with multi-channel sound for whatever you see and hear at this …