Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
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Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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Science fiction headline of the day: Mission to build a simulated brain begins
In what may be a first step along the road to copying consciousness described in last week’s science column, IBM and a Swiss university team have set out to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, one complete down to the molecular level.
Nary a hint or whisper in this news story about the possibilities of consciousness emerging in such a computer simulation. I certainly would have asked the question, however guache it might have seemed in a serious scientific context, had I been the reporter writing this piece.
But then, although I’m a science writer, I’m also (and to my mind, primarily) a science fiction writer and reader. And that’s why I’m making this my SF headline of the day.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/06/science-fiction-headline-of-the-day-mission-to-build-a-simulated-brain-begins/
