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Pondering a computer with a conscience

Thu, 01/17/2008 - 20:18 - NLN

Do we “know anything about the makeup of an electron? Does it possess its own consciousness or does it not?” Eliezer J. Sternberg ponders questions like the one above posed by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Norman Mailer just before his recent death -- the possibility posed by some of a future when computers might attain consciousness and actually meld with humans.

Sound like far-out science fiction?

Sternberg, a 2005 Williamsville North High School grad and current Brandeis University neuroscience researcher studying Alzheimer’s disease, explores the science behind some current predictions.

Read full story in The Buffalo News


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