TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK: ELECTRONIC INTERFACES AND AMPLIFIED INTELLIGENCE

Here’s another one for the transhumanist scrapbook. Recently I blogged about the growing perception of some scientists that some animals seem to have rudimentary linguistic skills, or, to put it in the Chomskian manner, a rudimentary innate grammatical competence. These raise the questions of consciousness, intelligence, and “self” in a rather direct manner. Likewise, my [...]