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A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around the Entire Circumference of the Brain

A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around the Entire Circumference of the Brain | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
This could be where consciousness forms.
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Automation Nightmare: Philosopher Warns We Are Creating a World Without Consciousness

Automation Nightmare: Philosopher Warns We Are Creating a World Without Consciousness | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.
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Harvard Scientists Think They've Pinpointed the Physical Source of Consciousness

Harvard Scientists Think They've Pinpointed the Physical Source of Consciousness | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
This is where awareness lives.
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A new start-up wants to transfer your consciousness to an artificial body so you can live forever

A new start-up wants to transfer your consciousness to an artificial body so you can live forever | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
Forever young?
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World's Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can't Crack Consciousness

World's Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can't Crack Consciousness | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
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Automation Nightmare: Philosopher Warns We Are Creating a World Without Consciousness

Automation Nightmare: Philosopher Warns We Are Creating a World Without Consciousness | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.
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Becoming Immortal: The Future of Brain Augmentation and Uploaded Consciousness

Scientists were able to elicit a pattern similar to the living condition of the brain when exposing dead brain tissue to chemical and electrical probes. Imagine the infinite human future(s) of mind uploading, life after death, immortality. Would you still be you when we upload your mind?
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Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter, Like a Solid, A Liquid Or A Gas – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium

Why Physicists Are Saying  Consciousness Is A State Of Matter, Like a Solid, A Liquid Or A Gas – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
A new way of thinking about consciousness is sweeping through science like wildfire.
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This physicist says consciousness could be a new state of matter

This physicist says consciousness could be a new state of matter | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
'Perceptronium'. 
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