THE CONCERNS OCCUPYING YOUTHS’ MINDS ARE BECOMING DIFFERENT?

Are Minds Computable?

This essay explores the limits of Turing machines concerning the modeling of minds and suggests alternatives to go beyond those limits.

Ideas Are Not Replicators but Minds Are

An idea is not a replicator because it does not consist of coded self-assembly instructions. It may retain structure as it passes from one individual to another, but does not replicate it. The cultural replicator is not an idea but an associatively-structured network of them that together form an internal model of the world, or worldview. A worldview is a primitive, uncoded replicator, like the...

Memristive synapses are becoming reality

A synapse is essentially a programmable wire used to connect groups of neurons together. The human brain possesses approximately 10 billion neurons, each of which has direct synaptic connections to approximately 10,000 neurons. Neuromorphic computers aimed at mimicking biological computation, and which have numbers of neurons and synapses approaching biological scale, can be modeled with superc...

Are pathologists becoming mere technicians?

a Nichols L. Are pathologists becoming mere technicians? [editorial]. How many hours each workday do you spend interacting with a computer screen instead of a person? As a pathologist, if you are signing out digital slides, flow cytometry or molecular diagnostic tests, interacting with a computer screen instead of a human being probably takes up most of your workday. Looking at glass slides is ...

Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? -- Appendix