{"id":950,"date":"2009-10-20T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2009-10-23T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T17:31:25","slug":"the-artifact-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Another Double Hit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-965 alignright\" title=\"Cylon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Cylon-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cylon\" width=\"142\" height=\"158\" \/>As a companion piece to Calvin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=858\">excellent Caprica review<\/a>, my article about mind uploading (and other proposed methods of individual immortality, feasible and otherwise) just appeared in H+ Magazine:<a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/ai\/ghost-shell-why-our-brains-will-never-live-matrix\"> Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be a third article, then we&#8217;ll see if they&#8217;re game for more!\u00a0 My thanks to the wonderful editor-in-chief of H+ Magazine, R.U. Sirius of <em>Mondo 2000<\/em> fame.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-973\" title=\"Time Travelers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Time-Travelers-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Time Travelers\" width=\"179\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Time-Travelers-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Time-Travelers.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/>Update 1:<\/strong> They say good things come in threes.\u00a0 When I got home tonight, I found a surprise package: Jack McDevitt&#8217;s just-released novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Time-Travelers-Never-Jack-McDevitt\/dp\/0441017630\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1256093739&amp;sr=8-2\"><em>Time Travelers Never Die<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 It contains a dedication, an acknowledgment &#8220;for acting as a guide and translator at Alexandria&#8221; and there is an Andreadis fellowship in that universe &#8212; for linguists, I think.\u00a0 Thanks to Jack for inviting me to share his exciting journey.\u00a0 I&#8217;m eager to read the book&#8230; and wonder: what will the third good thing be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> The H+ article was slashdotted.\u00a0 The funniest comment there was &#8220;Shhh.\u00a0 Nobody tell Kurzweil!&#8221;\u00a0 And the Andreadis fellowship in <em>Time Travelers<\/em> is for classical studies.\u00a0 Very fittingly, its first recipient is named Aspasia Kephalas.\u00a0 The former name is a nod to the Miletian courtesan partner of Pericles, famed for her intelligence and learning; the latter is street-Greek for &#8220;Brainiac&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a companion piece to Calvin&#8217;s excellent Caprica review, my article about mind uploading (and other proposed methods of individual immortality, feasible and otherwise) just appeared in H+ Magazine: Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix There will be a third article, then we&#8217;ll see if they&#8217;re game for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}