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3046380 No.3046380 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Transhumanism.

>I was given to understand that She manipulated whole sciences and thought systems as I might string words into a sentence. But Her 'sentences' were as huge and profound as the utterances of the universe itself.

>> No.3046389

>>3046380
Go jerk off to your nerd fantasies somewhere else.

...

Or, at least, help get this thread started!

>> No.3046393
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3046393

This is an AFM tooltip. It's shaved down to the width of a single atom, and is then set to crash on a surface to move atoms around.

FLASH FACT: Most of the people involved in this work spend most of their time cleaning and shaving the tip.

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3046410

This is a sorting pump. The design by Eric Drexler was meant as an update to the imagined "many spoked wheel to ferry atoms from a partition in a tank to the other through a wall".

It sorts atoms by mass and pushes out (Through one of the horseshoe-shaped tubes) and the rest just go through another one.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfuvLT4bbbA

It looks pretty cool, but it is far, far more complex than I'm comfortable with.

>> No.3046411

Some people claim that philosophy should have it's own board so it doesn't clutter up /sci/, stupider people think that that board should contain religious discussion as well as philosophical discussion, even stupider people talk about transhumanism on /sci/.

>> No.3046432

>>3046380
that's a faggy picture.

>> No.3046452
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3046452

This is a tandem mirror fusor in Ying-Yang configuration. We probably would've mastered nuclear fusion now if it wasn't for those damned tokamaks.

The Soviets knew it was shit.

>> No.3046467

>>3046380
Why does that robotic angel have African facial features and dark skin? Subtle racism?

>"You will never be a real angel."

>> No.3046473

>ITT: Transhumanism.

whoa, looks like you accidently clicked on the wrong board

no problem, I''ll point you in the right direction
>>>/x/

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>Doctors have been using ECoG since the 1950s to figure out which area of the brain is causing seizures in people with severe epilepsy. But in the past decade, scientists have shown that when connected to a computer running special software, ECoG also can be used to control robotic arms, study how the brain produces speech and even decode thoughts.

>In one recent experiment, researchers were able to use ECoG to determine the word a person was imagining.

>"This is both very exciting and somewhat frightening at the same time," says Gerwin Schalk, a researcher who studies ECoG at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany. "It really goes pretty close to what people used to call mind reading."


SKYnet is coming soon bro, very soon

>http://www.npr.org/2011/05/12/135598390/mind-reading-technology-turns-thought-into-action

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3046504

>>3046410
Now we just need a nanoRepRap.

And if you have that, you'll soon have two. And four. Eight. Sixteen. Thirty-two...

And then you have a nRR for every person on the planet.
That, and a huge hole in the ground where all the resources came from.

Watch out mother earth, we're gonna rip you a new one!

>> No.3046507

>>3046491

>SKYnet is coming soon bro, very soon

Eh, I'd rather have an upload than an AI, at least for the time being. But straying away from that, I really want to see what forms of art evolve out of fully-immersive brain-computer interfaces.

That, and prosthetics: DARPA's BCI arm is under medical trials, and if it goes through it could be a completely brain-controlled limb.

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>>3046504

>> No.3046674

>>3046491
I want a robot hand

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk

>> No.3046700

>>3046674
If you're going for a replacement, lose the hand that you do NOT fap with.
Or be prepared for some unforeseen consequenses.

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>>3046700
yea super awesome 5 second fap sessions

HOLY SHIT YES

>> No.3046731

>>3046714
yea super awesome 5 second autopenectomy

>> No.3046766

>>3046393
That flash fact is incorrect, sir.

>> No.3046775

We have animal brains controlling cyborg bodies. We have nerves connected to computers, optogenetics, and we're getting closer and closer to being able to run neuron-by-neuron simulations of a living brain. We're pretty damn close.

We all just need to live long enough, and get the government to invest more in technologies that improve life rather than weapon systems we'll never use.

>> No.3046783

> Pretending as though none of these things haven't already (aren't already) occurring.