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Via Suicide Bots From the Evolved Virtual Creatures website This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. Those that are most successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new...

via mind hacks have a look at this wonderful collection of mind and brain artwork, collected by the author of the Italian website PsicoCafé Link to PsicoCafé image gallery. Link to PsicoCafé (Italian)

Today the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies  has announced the creation of  NeuroNet , defined as “a first generation network created specifically for the transmission of...

Via Textually.org   [ Tokyomango ] A breathalyer from Japan.

Via Networked Performance   Networks have become a powerful metaphor for explaining the social realities of our times. A network, defined minimally, is a system of interconnected...