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smart medical technology concept, doctor use smart glasses to use augmented reality to show the anatomy body of the patient for analysis and find the way to treatment in surgery room at hospital..

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June 20, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health

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Featured, Human Interface Technology Lab, Robert J. Marks, Thomas Furness, Virtual Reality}

Virtual Reality Joins Actual Reality — and It’s a Real Advance

_{The grandfather of virtual reality explains how everyone began to think of ways VR might help them} _{News

June 20, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health}

As a result of media reports of his success in pioneering virtual reality for the US Air Force, many people contacted Thomas Furness. asking about civilian uses for virtual reality. In a recent podcast, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks continued his discussion with the “grandfather of virtual reality.” And the people who contacted Furness were not asking for better computer games. They were talking about really serious issues: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-086-Thomas-Furness.mp3 Transcript. Partial transcript: Thomas Furness: One question that came, one of the first ones I received, was from a mother who had watched a program that, apparently I was talking about the virtual cockpit. She called me and said, I watched this program. I want you to know my Read More ›

EEG Test on an Elderly Man at Hospital Laboratory

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June 19, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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COSM, Electroencephalography, Featured, Jay Richards, Mind Uploading, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks}

Can We Really Cheat Death by Downloading Our Brains?

_{Through the ages, we have thought of unique ways to avoid death. Could the internet and artificial intelligence help?} _{News

June 19, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Last October, Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage, caught up with Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a Baylor University computer engineering prof, at COSM 2019 to ask, what are our cheat-death chances? They were responding to futurist Ray Kurzweil’s heady claims made at the conference that we will merge with computers by 2045 and live on as AI. Richards and Marks reflected on Kurzweil’s claims and the thoughts of the panel responding to them. Here’s a partial transcript: Jay Richards: He’s (Kurzweil, below right) very much a sort of, I’d say, a techno-optimist. And in fact, he sort of thinks we’re going to get brain scans and upload ourselves, whereas the panel… Though I know there was a Read More ›

HUD Futuristic Screen Design Element Virtual Reality Aerial View Escort Security Technology. UI Information Interface In Cyberspace Scanning Landscape Geometric Wireframe..

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Date
June 6, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Military

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Aerial combat, Air Force, Featured, Robert J. Marks, Thomas Furness, Virtual Reality (VR)}

VR Was Invented by an Air Force Engineer

_{Real world concerns drove his inventions, long before Comic Con} _{News

June 6, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Military}

In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Thomas Furness and the invention of virtual reality,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed Thomas Furness, an engineer who wanted American fighter pilots to be able to see what was really happening around them in the air. It seemed that they needed virtual reality to do it. And that’s how the technology that powers so many computer games today got started. The transcript can be downloaded at the bottom of the page here. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-085-Thomas-Furness.mp3 Here is is a partial transcript of highlights from the interview: Virtual reality was pioneered by Thomas Furness during his Air Force service in 1966 when he served as a Second Lieutenant at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Much Read More ›

If Then logic statement written in white chalk on a black chalkboard isolated on white

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May 10, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Religion

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___longform, Featured, Formal logic, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Kurt Gödel, Mathematics, Rene Descartes, Robert J. Marks, Saint Anselm, Selmer Bringsjord}

Gödel and God: A Surprising History

_{A thought-provoking account of master logician Gödel’s largely unknown proof of the existence of God} _{News

May 10, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Religion}

In an unsanitized, politically incorrect (but factual) history, Selmer Bringsjord talks about how the tormented genius Kurt Gödel took up a quest that dated back a thousand years to prove the existence of God by formal logic. His original version didn’t quite work but his editor’s version passed an important logic test.