The Banana Peel Project

Computational neuroscientists have used IBM’s Blue Gene L supercomputer to model an entire “biologically accurate” mammalian neocortical column–that’s 10,000 neurons and 3,000,000 connections.
Models like these can be used to test all kinds of things, like drugs and therapies. What happens when scientists run experiments not on real brains or real neuronal structures, but on […]

If McLuhan’s aesthetic style is slippery and amorphous, then Baudrillard’s is utterly inscrutable. Where McLuhan’s style is “hot” and rich in imagery, Baudrillard’s is sparse and “cold,” requiring intense engagement with the text to distinguish between subtle variations in meaning. It would seem that Baudrillard’s claim that “information is directly destructive of meaning […]

“Now you’re going to replicate free will?”
“They are smoking something they shouldn’t be.”
“Anticipatory Culture-Based Modeling Environment, or ACUMEN…”
Interested? All this and more in the latest research from DARPA labs.