Mimicking touch by Victoria Woollaston in New Scientist 19 March 2022
Virtual reality is coming of age. One of the difficulties with VR so far has been that it...
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THE SENTIENT ROBOT
This site is for everyone interested in two of today's big topics, consciousness and artificial intelligence. It explores whether consciousness can be instantiated in a robot or artificial intelligence entity. Can artificial intelligence become self aware? Is artificial consciousness possible? It considers if robots could have emotions or even feelings. Could there be conscious AI or conscious robots? The site is a go-to, constantly updated repository of summaries and synopses of books, articles, papers, media and events that touch on the human properties of sentience and self awareness. The site explores whether such features can be uploaded into AI and robots.
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Special brain cells may signal when to start a new memory by Clare Wilson in New Scientists 12 March 2022
The brain continues to give up its secrets. We have a fair idea as to how memories are stored in...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Mimicking touch by Victoria Woollaston in New Scientist 19 March 2022
Virtual reality is coming of age. One of the difficulties with VR so far has been that it...
Read MoreETHOLOGY
Chimps crack the secret of evolution by Tom Whipple in The Times 25 January 2022
Innovation by non-human animals is really rare. Researchers have discovered two chimpanzee...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
Early man’s greatest invention? The handle by Kaya Burgess in The Times 16 March 2022
Is the handle better than fire and the wheel? There is always going to be a debate as to which of...
Read MoreLANGUAGE
Playing with fire by Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater in New Scientist 26 March 2022
Strange how we still cannot agree on the origins of language. The authors have just brought out a...
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Special brain cells may signal when to start a new memory by Clare Wilson in New Scientists 12 March 2022
The brain continues to give up its secrets. We have a fair idea as to how memories are stored in...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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