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Wednesday 31 August 2016

Dogs Understand Tone And Meaning Of Words

Dogs understand not just the tone, but also the meaning of words.

"Dogs process both what we say and how we say it in a way which is amazingly similar to how human brains do."

This is a key theme in the Singularity's Children series - forget aliens for the time being (its OK, calm down, they are coming!) we are already not alone - animals are much smarter than we give them credit for.


http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/30/491935800/their-masters-voices-dogs-understand-tone-and-meaning-of-words

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/30/491935800/their-masters-voices-dogs-understand-tone-and-meaning-of-words


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Sunday 28 August 2016

My #top100 #scifi Num:58 Ring World

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2b7KsK3





BIG scale, Space Opera.
A quest to a remote artefact, full of mystery. The Ringworld - millions of times the surface area of Earth, built and abandoned in antiquity by strange godlike beings... 


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Thursday 25 August 2016

My #top100 #scifi Num:59 Mote in Gods Eye

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2bEbl43




Real unabashed, deep space, Science Fiction with Spaceships and Aliens.
A very believable detailed alien world. 
Underrated in my opinion. Great stuff.


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Sunday 21 August 2016

My #top100 #scifi Num:60 Neuromancer

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2bEa6Sg



Pioneering prophecy. Cyber Punk's Inception.
Slightly dated now, but only because it has been riffed off and copied by everything since.


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Friday 12 August 2016

Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness

Key scientists, including Stephen Hawking, agree that consciousness is not reserved exclusively for humans.



(This was in 2012, so I am clearly very late to the party with this one but I wanted to blog it down on paper as it is such a key theme in Singularity's Children)


http://youtu.be/W9QIOj3IYuk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#Cambridge_Declaration_on_Consciousness
http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf

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Friday 5 August 2016

The Mesh

The 'Mesh', a sort of utopian, grass-roots, P2P, Internet Version 2.0, is one of key technologies in my new book. This looks like the first step.



http://amzn.to/29AqFB3
http://www.gotenna.com

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Cyberhavior