Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I once was blind

The Brain Unveiled: an article about a new method of inquiry available to neuroscientists

With diffusion spectrum imaging, we can now see things about brain wiring that the connectionists of the olden days couldn't see.

Go look at the article linked above, and press play on the thing that looks like a video. Then grab the slider and mess around with it.

Any day now somebody looking through these models will see the Pattern, and everything will change.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Hive Mind of Twitter in the NYT

Digital Intimacy article at the New York Times

I like the idea that epicognition could happen independent of any gadgets or technology. But I can't deny that technological developments might be involved in igniting the hive mind.