# s-brain: nanobot, lovers vs dangerous: "can you dance with me?"

<< He predicts that by the 2030s, humans will be using nanobots capable of tapping into our neocortex and connecting us directly to the world around us. However, he admitted that computers won't take over us until they learn to love and laugh. >> Ray Kurzweil

<< Artificial  intelligence  has  the  potential  to  be  as  dangerous  to  mankind  as  nuclear  weapons >> Stuart  Russell

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3483592/Nanobot-implants-God-like-intelligence-machines-won-t-overtake-learn-love-scientist-claims.html

2087 - il pseudomotore di Shostakovich
wednesday, november 15, 2006

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/11/2087-il-pseudomotore-di-shostakovich.html

<< Can  I  dance  with  you >> The Troggs.  With A Girl Like You. (1967), live.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1v4LzIlw5M

# s-brain: what you know, how you see

<< “When  you  become  an  expert  in  reading  an  alphabet,  what  does  that  change?  Does  your  visual  system  see  the  same thing  as  a  beginner?  We  say  no,”  Wiley  said.  “If  you’re  an  expert,  things  that  look  complex  to  a  novice  look  simple  to you.” The  findings  should  apply  not  just  to  letters,  but  to  anything  we  see. “What  we  find  should  hold  true  for  any  sort  of  object  —  cars,  birds,  faces.  Expertise  matters.  It  changes  how  you perceive  things,”  Wiley  said.  “Part  of  being  an  expert  is  learning  what  matters  and  what  doesn’t  matter  —  including visual  features.  You  know  what  to  look  for.” >>

Johns Hopkins University. What You Know Can Affect How You See. Released: 1-Mar-2016 10:05 AM EST

http://www.newswise.com/articles/what-you-know-can-affect-how-you-see

Wiley Robert  W., Wilson Colin,  Rapp Brenda. The  Effects  of  Alphabet  and  Expertise  on  Letter  Perception.  Journal  of  Experimental  Psychology:  Human  Perception  and  Performance,  Feb 25 , 2016,  Database:  PsycARTICLES [  First  Posting  ] http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000213

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2016-09709-001/

# scenarios among entities of one-time-only dilemma (di ipotetico aciclico "sbricio-lamento") ...

<< As Richard Thaler, the behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, explained, the strategies can be applied to anything: health care, nuclear deterrence, the last piece of pizza >>

<< Game theory shows that in iterated dilemmas, played many hundreds or thousands of times, cooperation is a very stable strategy — one reason it is so common in nature.
But this is not an iterated dilemma. It’s a one-time-only dilemma with a tremendous payoff for the winner >>

<< As Daniel Diermeier, the dean of the public policy school at the University of Chicago, notes, “A very important lesson of game theory is that sometimes the world is a grim place >>

Kevin  Quealy. The 2016 Race. Lessons From Game Theory ... February 24, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot/john-kasich-republican-nomination.html

# s-brain: no, they can't upload

<< According  to  a  spectacularly  misleading  article  in  the Telegraph:  Scientists  discover  how  to ‘upload  knowledge  to  your  brain’ >>

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/01/scientists-discover-how-to-download-knowledge-to-your-brain/

<< Except…  that’s  not  what  happened  at  all. >.

<<  The press  release  from  HRL  Laboratories about  the  study  seems  to  be  the  source  of  most  of  the errors,  including  the  Matrix  analogy >>

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/03/06/we-cant-upload-to-your-brain/

more:

now you can #learn; the begin https://t.co/LFJ4XVqNCS

https://mobile.twitter.com/flashontrack/status/701345918457663488

# s-brain: how to manage big and small numbers ...

<< Previous  studies  have  highlighted  the  general  region  where  the  brain  handles numbers  -  in  an  area  called  the  fronto-parietal  cortex,  which  runs  approximately  from the  top  of  the  head  to  just  above  the  ear.  But  scientists  are  in  the  dark  about  how exactly  the  brain  unpicks  and  processes  numbers >>

<< Dr  Qadeer  Arshad (..) said:  "Following  early  insights  from  stroke  patients  we  wanted  to  find  out exactly  how  the  brain  processes  numbers.  In  our  new  study,  in  which  we  used  healthy volunteers,  we  found  the  left  side  processes  large  numbers,  and  the  right  processes small  numbers.  So  for  instance  if  you  were  looking  at  a  clock,  the  numbers  one  to  six would  be  processed  on  the  right  side  of  the  brain,  and  six  to  twelve  would  be processed  on  the  left." >>

Kate Wighton. Big  and  small  numbers  are  processed  in  different  sides of the brain. 04 March 2016.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-3-2016-9-47-53

<<  This allowed us to demonstrate the first systematic bidirectional modulation of numerical magnitude toward either higher or lower numbers, independently of either eye movements or spatial attention mediated biases >>

<< (..) numerical allocation is continually updated in a contextual manner based upon relative magnitude, with the right hemisphere responsible for smaller magnitudes and the left hemisphere for larger magnitudes >>

Qadeer Arshad, Yuliya Nigmatullina, et al. Bidirectional Modulation of Numerical Magnitude. Cereb. Cortex (2016) doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv344 First published online: February 14, 2016

http://m.cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/02/14/cercor.bhv344.abstract?sid=5874fc1d-ce40-475e-a509-77e48bfaee81

# img: synchronous fireflies

<< I took this photo of fireflies (lightning bugs) in almost complete darkness using the latest low-light camera technology. I was completely surrounded by the fireflies and witnessed one of the most amazing and magical natural phenomena: fireflies that synchronize.>>

Radim Schreiber, 13th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/altered-images/synchronous-fireflies-lightning-bugs/?

Catie Leary. Wildlife photography shines in Smithsonian's annual photo contest. February 29, 2016, 6:45 a.m.

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/wildlife-photography-shines-smithsonian-annual-photo-contest

# rmx-s-behav: echoes from the Cambrian explosion

<< these early arthropods displayed such sophisticated predatory behavior >>

Jeff Sossamon, Feb. 16, 2016

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2016/0216-500-million-year-old-fossils-show-how-extinct-organisms-attacked-their-prey/

<< What  she  found  was  that  the  trilobite  traces  intersected  the  worm  burrows  more  often  than  would  be expected  by  random  chance.  The  fossils  also  show  evidence  that  suggests  the  trilobites  were  selective in  hunting  their  prey,  preferring  smaller  worms,  and  that  trilobites  attacked  their  prey  at  low  angles  more frequently  than  expected,  improving  their  chances  of  grabbing  onto  and  handling  their  prey  >>

Jordan Yount, Friday, January 29, 2016.

https://coas.missouri.edu/news/early-trilobite-gets-worm

Tara Selly, John Warren Huntley, et al. Ichnofossil record of selective predation by Cambrian trilobites. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 15 Feb. 2016, Vol.444:28–38, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.11.033

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.11.033