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Ary Aranguiz

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf - 0 views

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      http://bigthink.com/ideas/26541 Can We Download Our Brains? Prof. Michio Kaku explains 
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      The idea of separating the mind from the body made me think of Walt Whitman's poem "I Sing the Body Electric" where the body is sacred, linked to the soul. If we separate the mind from the body, where does it leave the soul? Do we download that too when we download our brains? 
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    Chapter One in this book is a required reading for the EDC students earning credit. Anyone in the EDC-MOOC can read the chapter here to spark our own MOOC discussions. Toward embodied virtuality, chapter 1 of How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. pp1-25
Oxana Dikareva

Brain abilities of Internet users - 0 views

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    rather interesting results of test
Chris Swift

Occupy Your Brain - 3 views

  • Once learning is institutionalized under a central authority, both freedom for the individual and respect for the local are radically curtailed. 
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    An impassioned essay calling for an end the restrictive fear and rigidity of top down education.Instead let us learn from the wisdom of indigenous cultures and be free to learn, imagine, wander, and be more human - less mass produced. "If the internet is the collective intelligence of human beings connecting across the dimension of digital space, then indigenous wisdom is the collective intelligence of human beings connecting across the dimension of time."
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