Writing in Scientific American , Carl Zimmer recounts his experience at the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City: If the term "si...

Check out this excellent  Philosophy Bites   podcast featuring David Chalmers who is asked about the technological singularity, whole brain...

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

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

This article from April 3, 2006 was inspired by the work of David Eagleman who will be guest blogging here next week. People who undergo ex...

There's a new book by Andy Clark worth checking out: Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension . This will be of ...

One of my readers recently made the comment on my recent protopanpsychism re-post: "...it is not clear what the evolutionary advantage...

Despite grandiose and cocksure proclamations to the contrary, consciousness is still a hard problem in science. Aside from (currently) untes...

Earlier this year doctors in Toronto reported a strange incident involving a morbidly obese man who was undergoing deep brain stimulation (...

Unconscious decisions in the brain : A team of scientists has unravelled how the brain unconsciously prepares our decisions. Already several...

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive ...

Transhumanists have long speculated about the possibility of uploading a brain into a computer. In fact, a big part of the supposed posthum...

Of all the celebrities and bigwigs I looked forward to meeting at TransVision 2007 there was only one person who I was truly nervous about ...