crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com Models of the brain built from specially designed computer chips could reveal the secrets of our cerebrum and are on the path to re-engineering the brain to enable the Singularity and could lead to transhuman enhancements. Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford University, is planning the most ...

reposted from advancednano A pdf by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg that surveys the state of cognitive enhancement in 2006Nick Bostrom's websiteThe paper reviews ways to train ourselves to be more intelligent/expert, drugs for enhancement /nootropic drugs, genetic modification, enhancing devices like computers, and brain /computer interfaces.I ...