A cannabis-like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.

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The intercourse between human beings and intelligent machines has challenged the traditional understanding of what it means to be "human." Technology's pervasive and penetrating presence has resulted in a posthuman condition: a state in which there is a continuous collapsing of man and machine.

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In a step towards realizing the promise of quantum communication and computing, researchers have successfully teleported photons underneath the river Danube in Austria.

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"Smart skin" holds promise for morphing wings and wearable computers.

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By Kevin Warwick
Special to Betterhumans.com

While today's implants are pretty basic, several hold promise for linking the brain to a computer

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Demand for increasingly powerful communications technology points to our future as a "techlepathic" species

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Nanoparticles originally developed for industry have an unexpected effect: They triple or even quadruple the life of rat brain cells, suggesting that they could help extend human lifespan and decrease age-related health problems.

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The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation.

Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity - several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.

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If you're like most people, you've fantasized about downloading Spanish 101 directly into your skull. That dream may become reality sooner than you think.

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Scaffold-like structures have been built from RNA in a small but important step for exploiting biology to build nanoscale machines.

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Abstract

This paper outlines the case for believing that we will have superhuman artificial intelligence within the first third of the next century. It looks at different estimates of the processing power of the human brain; how long it will take until computer hardware achieve a similar performance; ways of creating the software through bottom-up approaches like the one used by biological brains; how difficult it will be neuroscience figure out enough about how brains work to make this approach work; and how fast we can expect superintelligence to be developed once there is human-level artificial intelligence

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