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"They travel between the stars in immense living ships, and send down smaller ships as shuttles and to plant living communities." Octavia Butler wrote these words in her Xenogenesis  trilogy (later collected as Lilith's Brood ), describing the Oankali—genetic traders who voyage through space not in metal vessels but in living organisms engineered to sustain themselves across the void. The Oankali's ships are more than transportation: they are symbiotic ecosystems, self-healin

Can Buddhism Drive Innovation? When the Buddha experienced back pain and dysentery, he didn't achieve enlightenment by refusing treatment—he simply didn't cling to the outcome. But would a society of enlightened beings have invented the treatments to back pain and dysentery in the first place? The Question No One Asks We're told that Buddhism is compatible with science. The Dalai Lama dialogues with neuroscientists. Matthieu Ricard, a molecular biologist turned monk, runs hum

How hybrid biological-artificial intelligence systems could transform medical AI by learning the way humans do Part I: The Vision (TL;DR)...

DRAFT WHITE PAPER: Prepared for the Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Collaborative Community (iBCI-CC) Executive Summary As invasive...

As invasive brain-computer interface (iBCI) companies race toward FDA approval, they face a critical strategic decision that will...

Why the most transformative BCI innovations fall through the cracks—and what it means for the future of neurotechnology There's a...

PART 1: OVERVIEW Pioneering Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neurorestoration I lead the Raphael Center for Neurorestoration at Thomas...

In the September 24, 2025, New York Times, former Prime Minister Benny Gantz wrote an essay with the following assertions: Core...

A comprehensive blueprint for creating sustainable, evidence-based pain rehabilitation programs that serve patients, preserve surgical...

Part I: The Vision - A New Paradigm for Neurological Recovery The Problem We Must Solve Millions of people live with neurological...

What if the next leap in computing doesn’t come from faster GPUs or more efficient transformer models, but from a living system that...

A roadmap for navigating the bandwidth bottleneck between biological and artificial intelligence Neural tissue and silicon firmware can communicate directly with each other both in vitro and in vivo. © 2025, Mijail D. Serruya The Fundamental Problem Current brain-computer interfaces are impressive—and we can ask: are they 'just' a more direct equivalent to screen-and-keyboard, or are something fundamentally different? Are we trying to squeeze the entire ba

The Blueprint Three Visions of Biologically Grown Infrastructure Living Shelters: Architecture as Organism The convergence of bioelectric morphogenesis and computational ecological design enables a radical reimagining of human shelter—not as dead structures imposed upon landscapes but as living systems that grow themselves into habitable form. By integrating Mike Levin's TAME (Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere) principles with multi-species consortia, we can program b

Question: Is there a way to present information so visitors can make their own conclusions rather than being guided or steered one way or...

"I have a queer sensation as if I am not here... As though I were half here and half not here." When Wilder Penfield's electrode touched...

In an era where moral certainty seems increasingly elusive, a compelling question emerges: Can ethical behavior truly flourish without...

TL;DR : With nearly $1 billion invested in implantable brain-computer interfaces, investors expect a 10x return on a $10 billion market. Yet the path to this scale requires fundamental shifts beyond technical innovation—from regulatory frameworks to reimbursement models, from device-centric thinking to platform ecosystems, and from passive medical devices to living pharmaceutical systems that partner with human agency. The Cochlear Implant Benchmark: A 70-Year Reality Check W

The Initial Provocation If a Super-Compassionate Super-Intelligence existed and was approached by a council including figures like Yoshua...

Nearly a century has passed since Reinhold Niebuhr penned his devastating analysis of human nature and social organization in "Moral Man...

"We must demand that injured Palestinians seeking food and medical aid be allowed to come to the United States. If AIPAC and Laura Loomer...