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From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet...
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The latest topic of apartment is how to get a bookshelf wall we are happy with, on a budget, without making it look obviously cheap....
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belgaerthethinker asked: So I've been reading up on the Blue Brain project (Basically using a supercomputer to simulate all the neurons of a brain, and then wire them up to form a human brain) . I'm not sure if you've covered this before, but I felt like asking this anyway. If we were to accurately simulate a human brain, would it be alive? And if so, would running any of the sort of tests for neurological diseases be human testing? Or, would it be a work around to all the problems of human testing, at which point, we could technically simulate an entire human body, and every cell inside of it, and then could run any sort of test on it we want? Regardless of it it would be technically "Alive", the theological implications are pretty outstanding.
The idea of human-built computing rising and surpassing the functional level of the human brain is the crux of The Singularity. Futurists like...
