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...recently completed work on whole-brain emulation. Could you discuss that and its relationship with human enhancement? Whole-brain emulation is a hypothetical future technology which would enable human minds to be "uploaded" from biological brains onto computers. This is a radical technology that's a long way off. It is nevertheless worth analyzing now because if it is developed, it would have profound consequences in relation to enhancement. For example, a mind that runs as software on a computer is not subject to biological aging. Such a mind could also be sped up by moving it to a faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Human Enhancement | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

Dienstag, along with a handful of Medical School administrators, convened a meeting yesterday afternoon with four medical school students to discuss the policy’s intent...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Revise Controversial Media Policy | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

After the policy came under fire for its perceived restriction on freedom of speech, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts contacted school officials to discuss the policy. Long an advocate of the freedom of expression on university campuses, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Clark University in Worcester last spring, urging university officials to reconsider a decision to cancel a talk by controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Revise Controversial Media Policy | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...addition the group met with a local architect, construction companies, and real estate agents to discuss potential options and plans for the physical building including the proposed acquisition of 45 Mt. Auburn...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Capital Campaign Falls Flat, Cuts UC Ties | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq left a vacuum. In this vacuum have come men who call themselves the guardian of man. But they have killed millions. They have done this in the name of religion, although the Koran forbids killing." - During the annual Forum 2000 in Prague where global participants meet to discuss key issues facing civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ammar al-Hakim, Iraq's Newest Shi'ite Leader | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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