Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (forthcoming) continues describing “the New Science of Morality” in Edge 325: And yet, on the subject of morality, we seem to think that the possibility of differing opinions, the fact that someone can come forward and say that his morality has nothing [...]

The other night I finally watched Surrogates (2009)  starring Bruce Willis. The story takes place several decades in the future and essentially portrays 21st century society as a giant “grid” of humanoid robots that take the place of natural human bodies. Through the advances of neuroscience, the human mind can control machines, and through more [...]

(Oct. 16, 2009) — By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Before looking at this subject a little more, perhaps I should remind readers [...]

The problem with neurology is to understand man himself. – Wilder Penfield Concurrent with the last post on mind-control, it was recently announced that scientists successfully created the first-ever, remote controlled and accurate-flying beetle. That’s right, Hirotaka Sato at the University of Berkeley, wired up and attached a chip to the beetle’s body that sends [...]