The Unforbidden Beauty of Islamic Aesthetics

In Islam, you are not allowed to do a lot of things. Showing your hair, drinking alcohol, kissing in public. Most of those will turn a western mind into a reasonant megaphone, expressing the western distress with the general idea of forbidding personal freedom. It is hard to beleive that islamic girls who claim to [...]

Nootrópicos: rompendo o status quo bias

Nootrópicos: rompendo o status quo bias Nootrópicos são definidos como substâncias que aumentam a nossa capacidade cognitiva, seja por um aumento na memória, motivação, atenção ou concentração. Eles são usados pela humanidade há milhares de anos, no entanto, recentemente inúmeros novos compostos mais eficientes têm sido descobertos. A pesquisa desta classe de substâncias tende a [...]

It has Begun, Welcome to Human Enhancement

It is now the 11 of December, 2008, the day after the day when human enhancement has shown its face to the world. Yesterday an article on Nature Magazine came about online. The authors include Michal Gazzaniga, and are heretofore to be known as The Seven who began it all. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html This is the article, [...]

Atividade intelectual e Gênero

Esse texto visa esclarecer, do ponto de vista cientifico, a controvérsia a respeito das diferenças entre as habilidades cognitivas entre homens e mulheres. Uma vez que os argumentos aqui apresentados não se inserem no campo sociológico ou cultural esse texto tem a vantagem de apresentar argumentos que estão abertos a debate somente no que se [...]

Is there anything special about conciousness? Concerns about our posthuman future

Most of the atheists, most of the tranhumanists, extropians and neuroscientists would agree that no, there is nothing special about it.But I think it is time to take a carefull look at what do these people mean exactly with this no. First of all, we must consider what does the word “special” mean in this [...]