Right now, says Mr. Kurzweil, our human brains consist of 300 million "pattern recognition" modules.
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Dr Gross, a surgeon, is already skilled at implanting stimulating electrodes into human brains.
It is a lot easier to experiment with computer programs than with human brains.
We already have at our disposal the all-too-easy means for creating human beings with fully human brains and bodies.
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But Prof Nicolelis is clear that this depends on the development of non-invasive techniques to share information between human brains.
Long the stuff of science fiction, technology that can directly tap into, augment, and connect human brains is becoming science fact.
Human brains (1.4kg and 100 billion neurons) will come later, when all the wrinkles have been ironed out in rodents, and proper methods devised to analyse the results.
Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.
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When human brains come across uncertainty, they tend to pay attention to information more because they want to figure it out, which leads to longer and more in-depth processing.
Scientists stand on a catwalk that runs through its middle, and wearing 3D glasses look at enormous representations of human brains, molecular bonds, economic data, even the invisible manifestations of quantum physics.
Human brains have very finite limits in the new information we can integrate that might be relevant for the care of our patients, and human doctors are unquestionably subject to a wide range of biases.
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By turning their problem into a game, the scientists have harnessed thousands of human brains without specialist knowledge to work on protein-folding, says Adrien Treuille, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who helped to develop the program.
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The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.
Recognize that as human beings, our brains make mistakes without us even knowing it.
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The Roman Empire had made puny engineering, technological and artistic advances because it relied on copious use of human brawn, not brains.
In a fight against any adversary possessing halfway decent air defenses, unmanned aircraft must remain tethered to the brains of human operators or they will quickly be swept from the skies.
All this supports a once-radical idea that has been floating about in psychology since put into words by the consciousness expert Nick Humphrey in the 1970s that human beings evolved big brains not to understand the world, but to understand each other.
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Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.
"Here's the endgame--Nest ends up being the brains of the human energy system of the future, " he says.
He also cautions against applying information gleaned from studying the structure and function of chimpanzee brains to the human realm.
By either threatening or rewarding the brains of your human capital, you can reliably forecast whether you will have an engaged and productive team, or one that is looking for the nearest exit.
The most bizarre part to me isn't that Samsung is willing to fork out ungodly amounts of currency in order to sear the term "Galaxy" onto the brains of every human alive -- it's that the outfit's North American marketing partners are actually stellar.
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They then implanted the microelectrodes, each about a tenth the diameter of a human hair, into the animals' brains.
Tendai Biti, a fiery human-rights lawyer and the reputed brains behind the MDC, has been given the unenviable post of finance minister.
Starting this summer, Human Connectome Project researchers will begin scanning the brains of 1, 200 healthy young adults.
Our brains are also hard-wired to bring human beings together to form protective groups and clans.
After extensive trials on monkeys, he has now studied four human patients who each have had an array of 100 tiny electrodes implanted in their brains.
And in a forthcoming book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, he offers the most advanced explanation to date for how our brains work.
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And it became widely accepted that children require nurturing human beings not just for food and protection but also for the normal functioning of their brains.
Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.
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