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Announcing: Computational Intelligence Unconference UK 2014

Computational Intelligence Unconference (also known as CI Unconference). Our first CI Unconference will be on the 26th July 2014, at the BT Centre in London, England.Continue Reading

[Review] Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement at the Wellcome Collection

[Review] Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement at the Wellcome Collection

The latest exhibition from the Wellcome Collection – Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050 – is another great offering, but maybe one that could pack a little more punch.Continue Reading

The Best of Future Conscience 2009 – 2012

The Best of Future Conscience 2009 – 2012

To recognise three years of writing the blog I’m highlighting some of my favourite posts, the ones that I would hope everybody who visits would read (and share!) and that highlight the tone and purpose of the blog the best.Continue Reading

[Review] Brains: The Mind as Matter – Wellcome Collection exhibition

[Review] Brains: The Mind as Matter – Wellcome Collection exhibition

A review of the recent Wellcome Collection exhibition – Brains: The Mind as Matter. Objective and subjective, physical and metaphysical, scientific and artistic, division and unity; all of these working around one another in a much more dynamic and fluid form then we are able to appreciate when we examine life through our individual lenses that are themselves at every moment of being acting out the miracle of the micro within the macro.Continue Reading

Beyond Cute Robots: Towards a New Concept of Sentience

As we begin to more and more closely assimilate artificial intelligence with highly advanced engineering we should not see ourselves as limited by the biological necessities that have previously created a boundary for physical existence and the expression of identity.Continue Reading

The 21st Century: A Tale of Paradigm Shifts and Adaptability

There is nothing new about paradigm shifts in human history. The difference that we will face in the 21st century, unlike any other that has come before, is that our ability to create and process new information is accelerating exponentially. It is time to start paying attention, because if we don’t we will be subsumed by the changes brought about through our inattentive stumbling towards the future.Continue Reading