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yk42bbon Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?

Since the brain can communicate between both hemispheres without a corpus callosum[0] I think it is obvious that our brain does interact with itself via electromagnetic fields.

[0]: https://www.kurzweilai.net/unexplained-communication-between...

yk42bbon Army of avatar robots readies to invade Japanese job market

When I first heard of this I thought it was really stupid, as in it just adds a robot where a person is for the coolness factor. I didn't realize until now that this is an easy way to collect data to create the AIs for the robots of tomorrow.

yk42bbon I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

I have never read a first-hand account, that is why I am posting this.

yk42bbon Four features that justify a new Unix shell

I still have high hopes for Lush, the Lisp Universal SHell[0].

[0]: http://lush.sourceforge.net/

yk42bbon Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

I use Amazon music because it lets you download DRM-free MP3s and lets me easily switch between iPhone and Android. I just wish it didn't reset to 'cloud' when I want it in 'offline' mode because I live in a patchy area.

yk42bbon Better Than JSON?

It should mention canonical s-expressions[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_S-expressions