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come, but as the technology slowly advances, inevitably the technology will
raise moral, legal, and societal issues. Fortunately, we have plenty of time to
sort them out.
Page 81: "But if that's the device you want to build.. ."Douglas Fox, New
Scientist Magazine, May 4, 2006.
Page 81: In this sense, an fMRI mental translator may make it possible...
Philip Ross, Scientific American, September 2003.
Page 83: Such a device would never be as sophisticated... Science Daily,
www.sciencedaily.com, April 9, 2005.
Page 84: This process is difficult and tedious, since you have to carefully
process out spurious waves... Cavelos, p. 184.
6:
PSYCHOKINESIS
Page 90: Before Geller's appearance, Carson consulted with Randi... The
Amazing Randi, disgusted that professional magicians skilled at fooling
gullible individuals could claim psychic powers and hence defraud the unsuspecting public, began a career of exposing fakes. In particular he took delight in duplicating every feat performed by the psychics. The Amazing
Randi is in the tradition of the Great Houdini, a magician who also began a
second career exposing fakes and charlatans who would use their magical
skills to defraud others for private gain. In particular, Randi boasts that he
can even deceive scientists with his tricks. He says, "I can go into a lab and
fool the rear ends off any group of scientists." Cavelos, p. 220.
Page 93: The National Research Council's report studied creating a hypothetical "FirstEarth battalion"... Cavelos, p. 240.
Page 93: The report concluded that there was "no scientific justification ..." Cavelos, p. 240.
Page 95: By training them to vary their brain waves... Philip Ross, Scientific American, September 2003.
Page 95: These monkeys were then able to control... Miguel Nicolelis
and John Chapin, Scientific American, October 2002.
Page 96: "Then I knew that everything could go forward..." Ryla Dunn,
Discover Magazine, December 2006, p. 39.
Page 101: But, he admits, "it still takes the best groups in the world..."
Aristides A. G. Requicha, "Nanorobots," http://www.lmr.usc.edu/~lmr/publications/nanorobotics.
7:
ROBOTS
Page 104: even renowned physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford... Professor
Penrose argues that quantum effects must be present in the brain that make
possible human thought. Most computer scientists would say that each neuron in the brain can be duplicated by a complex series of transistors; hence
the brain can be reduced to a classical device. The brain is supremely complicated but in essence consists of a bunch of neurons whose behavior can
be duplicated by transistors. Penrose disagrees. He claims that there are
NOTES
come, but as the technology slowly advances, inevitably the technology will
raise moral, legal, and societal issues. Fortunately, we have plenty of time to
sort them out.
Page 81: "But if that's the device you want to build.. ."Douglas Fox, New
Scientist Magazine, May 4, 2006.
Page 81: In this sense, an fMRI mental translator may make it possible...
Philip Ross, Scientific American, September 2003.
Page 83: Such a device would never be as sophisticated... Science Daily,
www.sciencedaily.com, April 9, 2005.
Page 84: This process is difficult and tedious, since you have to carefully
process out spurious waves... Cavelos, p. 184.
6:
PSYCHOKINESIS
Page 90: Before Geller's appearance, Carson consulted with Randi... The
Amazing Randi, disgusted that professional magicians skilled at fooling
gullible individuals could claim psychic powers and hence defraud the unsuspecting public, began a career of exposing fakes. In particular he took delight in duplicating every feat performed by the psychics. The Amazing
Randi is in the tradition of the Great Houdini, a magician who also began a
second career exposing fakes and charlatans who would use their magical
skills to defraud others for private gain. In particular, Randi boasts that he
can even deceive scientists with his tricks. He says, "I can go into a lab and
fool the rear ends off any group of scientists." Cavelos, p. 220.
Page 93: The National Research Council's report studied creating a hypothetical "FirstEarth battalion"... Cavelos, p. 240.
Page 93: The report concluded that there was "no scientific justification ..." Cavelos, p. 240.
Page 95: By training them to vary their brain waves... Philip Ross, Scientific American, September 2003.
Page 95: These monkeys were then able to control... Miguel Nicolelis
and John Chapin, Scientific American, October 2002.
Page 96: "Then I knew that everything could go forward..." Ryla Dunn,
Discover Magazine, December 2006, p. 39.
Page 101: But, he admits, "it still takes the best groups in the world..."
Aristides A. G. Requicha, "Nanorobots," http://www.lmr.usc.edu/~lmr/publications/nanorobotics.
7:
ROBOTS
Page 104: even renowned physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford... Professor
Penrose argues that quantum effects must be present in the brain that make
possible human thought. Most computer scientists would say that each neuron in the brain can be duplicated by a complex series of transistors; hence
the brain can be reduced to a classical device. The brain is supremely complicated but in essence consists of a bunch of neurons whose behavior can
be duplicated by transistors. Penrose disagrees. He claims that there are