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Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Codifying human beings and increasing the processing capacity of computers has made it possible to create machines that can respond to our actions.
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Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (I)
Sandra Álvaro
The design of bionic prostheses and the creation of intelligent machines are some of the advances made towards enhancing our physical and intellectual abilities
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The “uncanny valley” hypothesis in robots
Ferran Esteve
The "uncanny valley" hypothesis holds that when a robot looks almost, but not exactly, like a human being, it causes disconcert and revulsion in the observer,
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The Dangerous Solar System, Exoplanets and Planetary Formation
Sebastián Pérez
To explain the origin of planets, including our own home, Earth, is one of the great challenges that still face human knowledge.
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On the Multiplicity of Intelligences
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
What is intelligence? How can we accurately define a concept that we only understand superficially?
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Storytelling
The Elementary Bestiary
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
Rather than giving you a standard introduction to the modern formulation of particle physics, we are going to take a historical approach.
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The Year of Neuroscience: debates on the human brain
Henry Markram, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Francisco Rubia and Kathinka Evers talk about consciousness, free will, neuroethics, empathy and collective intelligence.
