[ExI] Progress

[Anders Sandberg]

And you thought we didn't make some progress:

Rat borganisms: A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of 
Sensorimotor Information
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01319/full/srep01319.html

(I found out via a journalist who interviewed me, at 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/28/brains-rats-connected-share-information 
)

Lifespan of neurons is uncoupled from organismal lifespan:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/02/19/1217505110.abstract?sid=b6fbf5c9-5525-4897-828b-718404e68c7f

(I just attended a talk by Kasparov about the need for more innovation 
and progress. He sounds very much like he could have been a list member.)

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University