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		<title>Richard Dawkins on the Evolution of a Collective Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Edge.org question for 2010 is How is the Internet Changing the Way We Think? The site has lots of interesting answers including quite a bit doom and gloom about how we&#8217;re distracting ourselves to death, penned by smart people like Clay Shirky, Danny Hillis, and Dan Dennett.  But I was particularly intrigued by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=197&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Singularity Already Here and Making Us Stupid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a plane to Boston to attend a workshop sponsored by the XPrize Foundation, and hosted by MIT &#38; the renown futurist Ray Kurzweil, head of Singularity University. The workshop is being held to discuss the merits of creating an $10M XPrize to accelerate the development of direct brain-computer interfaces or BCI for short. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=174&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Social Media from Talk to Positive Change &#8211; One Pothole at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, social media seems to have a lot of roar, but very little teeth when it comes to facilitating social change.  Users of services like Twitter and Facebook seem more interested (sometimes compulsively) in entertainment, &#8216;branding&#8217; &#38; connecting with friends than about initiating positive social change. The always-insightful Venessa Miemis (@venessamiemis) hit the nail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=155&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sentient Web and an Autonomous Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may have just witnessed an important milestone in the awakening of the web. While this point may be controversial, I content that future exponential growth of the digital economy will eventually require getting humans out of the loop.  If computing power continues to double every 18 months in accordance with Moore&#8217;s Law,  utilizing all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=120&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New News</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/the-new-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting on the couch at my in-laws connected to the global network via my cell phone, and mesmerized by events unfolding in real-time in Iran.  While I sit relaxing with family in the afterglow of Christmas, half way around the world people like this man: with rocks in both hands and his cell phone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=106&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collective Intelligence and Individual Obscurity?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/collective-intelligence-and-individual-obscurity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd and Freddy Snijder have posted an interesting dialog about the streams and the &#8220;global sensorium&#8221;.  Freddy&#8217;s original post, Stowe&#8217;s reply, and Freddy&#8217;s reply to Stowe, are all worth reading. I like what both have to say, and the fact that dialogs like this is occurring is a sign that a collective intelligence is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=90&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of a Good Thing? &#8211; Compulsive Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/too-much-of-a-good-thing-compulsive-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans, like many species, are highly social creatures. The process of natural selection has instilled in us a drive to connect with other people. Those ancestors that were well connnected got support from their community and prospered, allowing them to pass on their gregariousness down to their offspring. With the advent of modern communication technology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=78&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Neurons Say Thank You?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/do-neurons-say-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hobby is analyzing real-time social media from the perspective of neuroscience. I'm fascinated by the analogy between Twitter and the brain. The recent discussions about the etiquette of 'thank you' posts on Twitter got me thinking - how do neurons in the brain handle thank yous?Pat on Back

At first it seems like a silly question. Upstream neurons don't thank downstream neurons for passing on the message they sent. A pre-synaptic neuron sends neurotransmitters to the post-synaptic neuron and that would seem like the end of it. Right? Or is it?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=63&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Etiquette</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/social-media-etiquette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, I&#8217;m new to social media, especially Twitter, and I&#8217;m still learning the rules.  But it appears to me that there are (as yet) few clear behavioral codes, perhaps because the medium is so young. For example, today one of my favorite visionaries on Twitter and a seasoned social networkers, @VenessaMiemis, tweeted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=50&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Futuring?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/the-future-of-futuring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Pomerleau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by organizations like the Institute For The Future and the World Future Society.  The folks at both these fine institutions sincerely want to help steer humanity towards a better future through careful foresight, and I applaud their efforts. But at the same time, I remain skeptical about the impact these types [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulcog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10849805&amp;post=44&amp;subd=thoughtfulcog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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