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Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts

2012-11-24

In a Holographic Universe, does the microcosm mirror the macrocosm?


In the article they start by stating "By no means do we claim that the universe is a global brain or a computer."  Yet looking at the Holographic Universe model, one can see the correlation of the microcosm mirroring the macrocosm.
Human brain, internet, and cosmology: Similar laws at work?
(Phys.org)—The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain and other complex networks, such...

2012-04-08

Cyberbrain + Facebook/Twitter = FailBrain?


I have recently been doing some research into neurology, cybernetics and other such subjects.  Tonight a most horrible, disturbing thought came to mind.

Let us imagine technology moves forward and our future ends up quite similar to Ghost in the Shell (SAC TV series).  Now on the surface this is amazingly cool, then I started thinking about people and this popped into my head:

Cyberbrains + Facebook or Twitter = ???

Let us say in the future cyberbrains have become common.  And then you factor in current usage of these two social media sites.

There you are, trying to discuss something in a meeting, and you notice a few individuals staring off into space and drooling as they tend to things in their 3D immersive Farmville.

Or you are trying to read a good book, and alerts keep popping up in your cybernetic eyes:  lol m eting PBJ 4 lunch.

My non-cybernetic brain hurts at these thoughts.