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[jim_we]

S Korea Surging Ahead In The Sciences
World Science Forum Held In Seoul
Hold On To Your Hats �
Or, Better Yet, Your Brains
By Sherry Baker
5-8-8

http://rense.com/general81/dur.htm

I'm just back from Seoul, South Korea, for the World Science Forum: Brain Power after spending a few days in Hawaii recovering from the high energy event. My bet is, the Forum is an event you probably heard zilch about � I sat at one of two press tables and was the only US journalist as far as I know. The US press wasn't interested, apparently.

But the government-sponsored meeting was clearly a Big Deal for S. Korea and it revealed developments which can be called "mind-blowing" in more ways than one.
Like what?

Robots that learn and beat programmed humanoid mechanical creatures at games because the able-to-learn robots are thinking, trying, learning on the spot � their "brains" are based on how the human brain works ( a sort of back-engineering). Brain/computer interfacing techniques that may sound like sci fi but are already being tested on animals and , in some cases, humans.

A new effort to map � literally and exactly � every neuronal twist and turn of the human brain, much like the human genome has been mapped ( and that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "mind reading"). The ways neuroscience can be used for "neuroeconomics " and " neuro-marketing" � terms used by Yale neurobiologist Daeyeol Lee to describe how neurobiological studies of the brain's reward system can elucidate " the biological basis of our values and preferences" ( i.e., how knowing how the brain works can help those who want to zero on in marketing directly to your mind's biology).

In addition to these and other specific revelations, the forum also clearly put S. Korea's passion for science in the spotlight. There is an open agenda , a resolve to seize these developments and apply them to medicine and technology in this technologically savvy Asian country.............

http://rense.com/general81/dur.htm

[jetrash]

[Ramen]

And what about the stem cell research dog and pony show they put on a few years back.

[billybrobby]

This is a dopey article, but you didn't quote the best part:

[funkywinkerbeans]

I have to wonder about the author's perception of reality after reading the following:

open at the touch of a button to reveal the Han River and , through the misty morning haze, the outline of seemingly endless super modern high rises on the other side, rising up like some fantasy futuristic city


I've never thought of Korean apartments as super modern and maybe futuristic as nightmarish!

[Pyongshin Sangja]

What crap. That's not the future, it's pollution.

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

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[Ramen]

They are also #1 in fan death and madcow disease research.

[moosehead]

don't forget the zillions poured into kimchi cancer cures

[ryouga013]

[Ilsanman]

Korea sparkling!!!