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IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire Brain
Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of working memory for the digital kitty mind.
11.25.2009 at 04:59pm - Comment by P1h3r1e3d13For those of you pointing out the lack of a body, you've hit on the head of an area-of-active-research nail. Check out embodied cognition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition) and the work of cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, etc., like George Lakoff and Andy Clark. And PopSci (or Mr. Hsu): shame on you for promoting scientific illiteracy. I don't mean the refutation of this announcement. The cerebral cortex is not the entire brain. How on Earth did you get that idea?
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IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire Brain
Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of working memory for the digital kitty mind.
11.25.2009 at 04:37pm - Comment by P1h3r1e3d13For those of you pointing out the lack of a body, you've hit on the head of an area-of-active-research nail. Check out embodied cognition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition) and the work of cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, etc., like George Lakoff and Andy Clark. And PopSci (or Mr. Hsu): shame on you for promoting scientific illiteracy. I don't mean the refutation of this announcement. The cerebral cortex is not the entire brain. How on Earth did you get that idea?
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Rat Brain Modelers Denounce IBM's Cat Brain Simulation as "Shameful and Unethical" Hoax
IBM's claim of simulating a cat cortex generated quite a buzz last week, but now the head researcher from the Blue Brain project, a team that is working to simulate its own animal brain (a rat's), has gone incandescent with fury over the what
11.25.2009 at 04:36pm - Comment by P1h3r1e3d13@asuconservative: The only way the PhysOrg article mentions cats is to say the network “exceeds the scale of a cat cortex.”
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Victimless Leather?
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has had to kill one of the works currently on display in its recent Design and the Elastic mind show. Literally. The piece is called Victimless Leather. It's an incubator built from a series of flasks which provides nutrients to feed a miniature living coat. The tiny coat was comprised of a biodegradable polymer matrix in the shape of a doll's jacket covered in a layer of living tissue made up of mouse stem cells. When the cells began growing to quickly, the curators of the show had to cut off the nutrients—effectively killing the cells.
5.16.2008 at 01:26pm - Comment by P1h3r1e3d13europeanguy is right; near the end of the first paragraph, you should write "too quickly" rather than "to quickly." That is a shockingly terrible mistake in a publication of this caliber. @ europeanguy: It is "It's," not "its."
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