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1 MINTE, CONȘTIINȚĂ LIBERUL ARBITRU

2 Nu există materie ca atare. Tot ceea ce numim materie îşi are originea şi există doar în virtutea unei forţe care face să vibreze particulele unui atom şi care menţine integritatea acestui minuscul sistem solar al atomului Suntem obligaţi să presupunem că în spatele acestei forţe există o minte conştientă şi inteligentă. Această minte este matricea întregii materii. Max Planck

3 Cunoașterea actuală se îndreaptă către o realitate non-mecanică; Universul începe să semene din ce în ce mai mult cu un mare gând decât cu o mașinărie Mintea pare că nu mai este doar un intrus accidental în tărâmul materiei mai degrabă am privi-o ca pe creatoarea și guvernatoarea planului fizic. Sir James Hopwood Jeans. The Mysterious Universe. Cambridge University Press

4 At 13.7 billion years old and filled with 100 billion galaxies each containing hundreds of billions of stars the Universe as revealed by modern science is humbling in scale and dazzling in beauty. But, paradoxically, as our knowledge of the Universe has expanded, so the division between us and the cosmos has melted away. B.Cox

5 By early 2011, we had discovered that the Universe is composed of twelve basic building blocks, only three of which are required to build everything on our planet, including our bodies. These three components, known as the up and down quarks and the electron, can be assembled into the more familiar protons and neutrons two up quarks and a down quark make a proton, and two down quarks and an up make - up a neutron. B.Cox

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7 Ideologeis, philosophies, religious doctrines, world-models, value systems, and the like will stand or fall depending on the kinds of answers that brain research eventually reveals. It all comes together in the brain. In brief, recent conceptual developments in mind-brain science are seen to bring changes in worldview perspective that revise the ultimate criteria and frame of reference for determining human value priorities and resolving value differerence. R. W. Sperry. Changing Priorities. Ann.Rev.Neursci.1981

8 Artificial intelligence and advanced robotics have the potential to transform the world economy. Changes are being made already, especially in technology that acts like the human brain, learning to complete more varied and complex tasks based on past experience. Artificial Intelligence Gets a Little Smarter. Stratfor

9 Here we report the design of a synthetic mind-controlled gene switch that enables human brain activities and mental states to wirelessly programme the transgene expression in human cells. Humans generating different mental states (biofeedback control, concentration, meditation) can differentially control SEAP production of the designer cells in culture and of subcutane-ous wireless powered optogenetic implants in mice. Folscher M et al. Mind-controlled transgene expression by a wireless-powered optogenetic designer cell implant. Nat. Communication. 2014

10 Cybernetics has pioneered mindcontrolled electromechanical man machine interfaces that allow brain activities to intentionally control bionic prostheses, and optogenetics has established electromolecular machine man interfaces that enable light controlled therapeutic interventions by modulating brain, heart and gene activities. Folscher M et al. Mind-controlled transgene expression by a wireless-powered optogenetic designer cell implant. Nat. Communication. 2014

11 Recently, however, advances in genetic engineering and microsurgery have brought these creatures into existence. Scientists now have created humannonhuman chimeras organisms that have both human cells and animals cells in their bodies. Jielin Yu. Rethinking Humanity: the Chimera Debate. Boston University Arts & Sciences Writing Program. 2010

12 Mental health disorders make up the majority of disease around the world A key challenge facing global mental health is to understand the factors affecting etiology and treatment of mental health disorders, as well as the mechanisms underlying disparities in mental health disorders across nations. Joan Y. Chiao. Population Disparities in Mintal Health:Insights from Cultural Neuroscience. Am J Public Health.3013.

13 Do we consciously cause what we do, or do our actions happen to us? Yes, we feel that we consciously cause what we do; and yes, our actions happen to us. Rather than opposites, conscious will and psychological determinism can be friends. Such friendship comes from realizing that the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain just as human actions themselves are created by the mind and brain. Daniel M. Wegner

14 The answer to the question of conscious will, then, may involve exploring how the mechanisms of the human mind create the experience of will. And the experience of conscious will that is created in this way need not be a mere epiphenomenon. Rather than a ghost in the machine,the experience of conscious will is a feeling that helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Daniel M. Wegner

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17 This paper argues that at least one of the following prepositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolution history (or variations of thereof);

18 (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become potshumans who run ancestor- simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. Bostrom N. Are you living in a computer simulation?-philosophical Quarterly (2003) Vol. 53, No. 211, pp

19 Statutul nostru pare a fi acela de componente intrinseci ale Universului, poate cele mai frumoase, dotate cu puterea creației, a liberului arbitru, dar şi a răspunderii, într-un univers ierarhic. În fond, conştiința este reflectarea conştientă a legilor din univers în mintea noastră care, la rândul ei, se reflectă în comportamentul nostru de zi cu zi; conştiința este gardianul nostru care ne conferă calitatea de membri ai unei societăți față de care nu putem, sub nici o formă să ne izolăm sau să nu participăm conştient-constructiv la vigurozitatea şi armonia ei. Conștiința la răspântia dintre filosofie L. Zăgrean. NOEMA vol. XIII. 2014

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21 We are the citizens of the coming NEUROWORLD, and ours are the brains that are likely to be changed.

22 The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all other and is more interesting than any of them, is of determination of man's place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos. Th. Huxley

23 The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind

24 ândirea amprentă a identității Poate, dacă suntem norocoși, roboții de mâine ne vor păstra ca pe niște animale răsfățate sau dacă suntem destul de deștepți, am putea transfera Sea squirt roboților structurile noastre proprii de informație R.Penrose Halobacterium salinarium

25 Suntem Tinere Vlăstare de Puterea însufleţite ale Pământului, Gândului Prin copac, Pamântul se leagă de Soare Prin Om, Pamântul se extinde în Univers Leon Zăgrean

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