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		<title>Rats on Robots</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingcyborg.com/2008/08/rats-on-robots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To create the "brain", the neural cortex from a rat fetus is surgically removed and disassociating enzymes applied to it to disconnect the neurons from each other. The researchers then deposit a slim layer of these isolated neurons into a nutrient-rich medium on a bank of electrodes, where they start reconnecting. They do this by growing projections that reach out to touch the neighbouring neurons. "It's just fascinating that they do this," says Steve Potter of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who pioneered the field of neurally controlled animats. "Clearly brain cells have evolved to reconnect under almost any circumstance that doesn't kill them."]]></description>
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		<title>The Electronic Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.becomingcyborg.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[...I'd just like to note that I find it ironic that new bionic technology is coming closer to approximating the efficiency of human organs by replicating their very form and function. This makes me almost envision a world full of bionic human cyborgs who look and act identically to natural humans because at that point all machine technology would appear and function as organic in nature. Are we replicating ourselves?]]></description>
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		<title>Bionics vs. Cybernetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So what then, is the difference between modern cybernetics and bionics?

I'll use Britannica Online as my main resource, since it has the most detail out of any internet-based discussion on the topics.

    Bionics is not a specialized science but an interscience discipline; it may be compared with cybernetics. Bionics and cybernetics have been called the two sides of the same coin. Both use models of living systems, bionics in order to find new ideas for useful artificial machines and systems, cybernetics to seek the explanation of living beings’ behaviour.]]></description>
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		<title>The Illusion of Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.becomingcyborg.com/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyborgs and post-humans are a real and logical expression of this transcendence ultimately manifesting in real time. Ray Kurzweil, a prominent futurist describes a singularity, or threshold through which the face of human existence will be radically altered. We will transcend our human condition by altering our reality and destroying physical and mental boundaries through the use of various technologies. While the imminence of such an event is still up in the air, it logically coincides with Sagan's idea of our eternal desire to return to the "original state". ]]></description>
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		<title>My Focus on Cybernetic Organisms</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingcyborg.com/2008/07/my-focus-on-cybernetic-organisms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just one clarification:

I've had quite a number of people e-mail and approach me (in the real world as well as through the blog) about why I focus on Cyborgs.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Stream Your Life Online (Pt.1)</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingcyborg.com/2008/07/how-to-stream-your-life-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.becomingcyborg.com/?p=9</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to talk a little bit about various service you can use to stream every waking moment you have onto the Internet. The cybersphere is one of the best means to put yourself out there and if you have something interesting going on, people WILL find you and comment on your life. Not only is this a higher level of social interaction and connectivity, but it represents a new way to interact. You are essentially expanding your reality with a virtual output rather than just being a perceptive "input only" being.]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Memes&#8221; Are Important</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingcyborg.com/2008/07/why-memes-are-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[...this, in turn, implies that the internet has become a more fluid version of reality where our memes take on a more real form than they have in our minds...]]></description>
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		<title>How You Will Save the World: A Transhumanist Methodology</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingcyborg.com/2008/07/how-you-will-save-the-world-a-transhumanist-methodology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ One of the aims of the Transhumanist proponents is typically to change society in a positive way through societal/cultural augmentation (utilizing various interpersonal and electronic technologies). We place value on controlling our own evolution (see: microevolution) to ultimately breed ourselves into godhood. Now we're getting into posthumanist territory.

As a first post on this blog, I want to keep it kind of light and ask what all of your feelings are on the issue. Thus, I pose the following:]]></description>
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