Monday October 26, 2009 22:20
CompInfoFuture Homework 9: Project Development
- In a new posting on your blog, post your current writeup. Add notes inside it in various places. Each note says what you would like to add in at the location of the note. If you are writing a story, this might not work – instead, just add some more material to it, or develop more plot description, or whatever advance seems best.
- Latest updates are always kept at my online document store.
- Write and incorporate a new part. Ideally it should be about crime (or precrime!), or indeed any other idea from Minority Report or our discussion of it. But if that doesn’t fit, any other advance to your project will do just as well.
- Write and incorporate another new part. Ideally it should be about cyborgs, mind hacking, ghosts, shells, ghosts in shells, therm-optic camouflage, or something else related to The Ghost in the Shell. But again, any advance to your project will be fine.
- Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. (Townsend, G.; Graimann, B.; Pfurtscheller, G., “Continuous EEG classification during motor imagery-simulation of an asynchronous BCI,” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.12, no.2, pp.258-265, June 2004.)
- Aimee Mullins blurs the line between prosthesis, augmentation, and art. [Video, 10 minutes.]
- Licklider, J. C. R. ”Man-Computer Symbiosis,” Human Factors in Electronics, IRE Transactions on, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960.
- “Brain implants in fiction and philosophy” from Wikipedia discusses the “brain in a vat” scenarios from Descartes and Putnam through the themes of contemporary films like The Matrix.
- Explain briefly what you did for questions 1), 2), and 3) so that I can decipher what you did for this HW.
- I am continuing an exploration into the current trends in prosthetic and augmentation design for the human body, as well as where the technology is headed, and what philosophical repercussions will occur. I have read the aforementioned journal article and watched the videos, taking notes (linked), to put into my presentation.
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