Neuroscientist Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-act...

Author Raymond Tallis reviews two new books about consciousness: Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey and Self Comes...

Says Don Tapscott: The existence of lifelong neuroplasticity is no longer in doubt. The brain runs on a "use it or lose it" motto....

According to the New York Times , voluntary wheel running with a load increases muscular adaptation and enhances gene expression in rat brai...

James Giordano now talking about  Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Strivings to Flourish . One of his primary messages is that we need t...

John Shook of the Center for Inquiry is speaking about  Philosophical Challenges for a Neuroscience of Moral Enhancements . What would a m...

In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Mi...

Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung recently gave an extremely insightful and informative TED talk called, " I am my connectome ." I hi...

Credit: Technology Review Neuroscientist Edward Boyden, in his article, " Brain Coprocessors ," says we need to develop operati...

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded grants totaling $40 million to map the human brain's connections in high resolution. ...

University of Utah scientists have successfully decoded words from brain signals , bringing us one step closer to realizing technologically ...

A popular argument against uploads and whole brain emulation is that consciousness is somehow rooted in the physical, biological realm. Back...

The ongoing debate between PZ Myers and Ray Kurzweil about reverse engineering the human brain is fairly representative of the same debate...

The blog war between PZ Myers and Ray Kurzweil continues. Myers has now retorted to Kurzweil's retort : ...you can't measure the nu...

Ray Kurzweil has retorted to PZ Myers's claim that he does not understand the brain : For starters, I said that we would be able to rev...

Biologist and skeptic PZ Myers has ripped into Ray Kurzweil for his recent claim that the human brain will be completely modeled by 2020 (No...

We're another step closer to reverse-engineering the human brain: IBM scientists have created the most comprehensive map of a brain’s ne...

Internet pioneer David Gelernter explores the ethereal fuzziness of cognition in his Edge.org article, " Dream-logic, the internet and ...

Stephen S. Hall's new book, Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience , looks interesting. Promotional blurbage: A compelling investigatio...

Anders Sandberg delivered a talk on whole brain emulation at Google last month: