ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2009) — Orphaned chimpanzee infants given special ‘mothering’ by humans are more advanced than the average child at nine months of age.

In the first study to examine the effect of different types of care for infant chimpanzees on cognition, researchers found chimpanzees who were given extra emotionally-based care were more cognitively advanced than human infants.

Humans overtake chimpanzees in development terms as they grow older but the study sends stark warnings that looking after just an infant’s physical needs is likely to result in a child who is maladjusted, unhappy and under-achieving. more>>>

The CBS article title reads: “How Technology May Soon “Read” Your Mind” but readers of Blogging the Singularity know very well it’s not that they may – THEY WILL!

How can a multi-billion dollar mainstream media outlet describe the advancing pace of “neuroscience research into…what we’re thinking” as only “stunning”?

We here at Blogging the Singularity as well as our readers tend to prefer the more technical term: EXPONENTIAL!

Great story but as usual the media conglomerate ignores the big picture. They want you stunned, we want you informed.

Subscribe to the feed and keep reading….the pace is picking up!

My favorite quote from the video:

“…there is no Science Fiction anymore. All the Science Fiction I read in high school we’re doing.” more>>>

“Screwdriver isn’t one place in the brain. It’s many places in the brain. When you think of a screwdriver, you think about how you hold it, how you twist it, what it looks like, what you use it for,” Just explained. more>>>

First let me say I grew up in a small New England town. My parents went to town meetings where they voted on issues of the day. However, at the same time I was raised in a conservative environment. I was instructed that one should not bring up the subjects of religion or politics in polite company.

Now here comes the probability of human enhancement – on a grand scale! I recently discovered a website that documents and encourages “The great enhancement debate”. Can you imagine anything that could possibly have more impact on both religion and politics?

Click here for a project titled “The great enhancement debate”. Next be sure to click on the “Project description” window and then on the 3 videos by nina that will appear. Enjoy or better yet “THINK”.

If you recall, “THINK” was a one-word slogan developed by IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr. It certainly applies to this – the Great Enhancement Debate.

The Earth is a single organism of which we are a part. You are the Earth, we ARE the Universe. You are Korean, You are African. You are the rivers, the trees, the galaxies, and the fire. You are every animal, every burning star and every square inch of the vastness of space. You are the most beautiful thing because existence is beautiful and enchanting.

Lonely it may be,
confined within our nervous systems
remember,
communication binds us
and extends your reach and understanding
to the vast corners of existence.

Do not feel lonely,
for you are One
with all things
small and large
alive and dead
and connected
with understanding
to all.

We are One, All
travellers
wherever time takes us.
A Universe alive.
A fate unfolding.

Toward only
God knows what.

Fritjof Capra is best known as the author of The Tao of Physics. Over the last 20 years, his work has evolved to include ecology and activism. He is the founding director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He spoke with Swati Chopra:

How did you come upon the metaphor of the dance of Shiva for quantum particles, used so vividly in The Tao of Physics?

I had a profound experience sitting at a beach in California, where the boundaries faded away and I belonged to this larger whole, a cosmos which was dynamic, alive, and in motion in a patterned order of a dance. I was a particle physicist and knew what was going on around me in terms of patterns and molecules, and i had also read of the dance of Shiva. I put the two together. But it didn’t really come intellectually. It was an experience. more>>>