I'm listening to the live streaming of the Humanity+ Summit here. Or, use this player:

Wolfram: "computational irreducibility is our great enemy."

Using Rule 30 for human purposes: used to produce random numbers. 2:03 CT

Huge implication from Stephen Wolfram's Rule 30: cellular automata in general, are the key to understanding how simple rules produce complex structures and behaviour in nature.

From Twitter: transcript: John Smart's talk.

Computation is the key to the future. His three big projects: Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, A New Kind of Science. 1:49 CT

Stephen Wolfram talking about his view of the future. 1:47 CT

Quantum computer nets are already being used. 1:44 CT

Seth Lloyd: No grandfather paradox- the universe censors impossible things. 1:32 CT

Molecules in green plants are doing quantum computation to approach near-perfect efficiency in photosynthesis. 1:26 CT

Speaker says he's going to explain time travel yesterday. 1:24 CT

Science is information that can be tested... by anybody or anything. Speaker argues that proprietary or secret science is not science at all. 1:20 CT.

Timothy Marzullo (@backyardbrains) slides. 11:46 CT

Slides to really amazing neuro talk by Kenneth Hayworth here: slides

Brain plastination may make brain stasis possible at room temperatures. Circumvents biggest problem w/ cryonics: crystals. And I'd guess it's cheaper. 11:33 CT

Shapiro's advice: find people with currently untreatable conditions where solutions could be early versions of eventual enhancements. 11:27 CT

Breaking from live blogging. 10:00 CT

Genetic Researcher Lee Sweeny: "Half the emails I get now are from athletes." 9:57 CT

breaking from live blogging... 9:19 CT

Five things to do to increase your intelligence: seek novelty, challenge yourself, think creatively, do things the hard way, network. 9:18 CT

Increasing neural plasticity, or establishing new neural connections, by forcing your brain to engage in novel activities and adapt to environments outside of its comfort zone, may be the key to proving false the old assumption that intelligence is fixed at birth. 9:10 CT

Andrea Kuszewski; Intellectual Enhancement: Maximizing Your Cognitive Potential; intelligence is NOT immutable. 9:08 CT

Thought is useful in an uncertain world - we use probability to guess (often with great success) at the world around us in spite of noise. 8:58 CT

Alex Backer: The world needs a wikipedia for scientific research. Instant peer review. Announcing today site everybodyscience.org. 842 CT

Got to be a better way than standing in a physical line. Alex Backer has invented a system for standing in line virtually with your cell phone. http://waitinginlinesucks.com/ 8:39 CT

There is an optimal genetic distance between parents and offspring. Too little and they can't adapt to new challenges, too much and the offspring can't survive. 8:34 CT

Alex Backer now talking about why we age, and how we extend life expectancy. 8:30 CT

Ed Boyden's treated blindness in a mouse with these methods.8:29 CT

Ed Boyden's slides: http://www.slideshare.net/humanityplus/controlling-brain-circuits-with-light-ed-boyden 8:26 CT

Ed Boyden is talking about controlling brain circuits with light and with gene silencing. 8:14 CT

Citzen scientists empowered by improved, cheaper sensor tech, and like-minded networks. 8:03 CT

First mention of the "Big Bang Theory" show. 8:02 CT

Reputation capital is, Alex says, the currency of the future. Wuffie! 8:00 CT

Alex just announce that Ray Kurzweil is flying into the conference tomorrow from Colorado. Kurzweil is attending the premier of "The Singularity is Near" Phil! 7:54 CT

Citizen Scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Home Brew Computer Club. Alex says we are entering a new age of citizen scientists. 7:52 CT

Alex Lightman talking about the importance of thinking long term - because you may "live to see it." 7:49 CT

Twitter questions with the #hplus tag. Tweets with that hash mark ending in a "?" will be considered for the conference. 7:47 CT

Good morning. I'm listening to the live streaming (see yesterday's post). Thought I'd live blog a little this morning.

7:43 am CT