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Watch Susan Blackmore’s “Memes and temes” talk at TED
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive [...]
Posted in information technology, innovation Also tagged behavior, information technology, psychology, technology, Technology Development, TED conference, the Guardian 1 Comment
Watch Jeff Hawkins’ “Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing” talk at TED
Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next [...]
Posted in design, information technology, software Also tagged artificial intelligence, California, computing, Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins, mobile devices, Neuroscience, PDA, TED conference Leave a comment
Marvin Minsky’s “Health, population and the human mind” talk at TED
Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice [...]
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Education in China: Reverse Brain Drain