Confusing cognition with consciousness, Uma Shahani describes how the sleeping brain processes information and the potential implications for the materialist mind-as-brain model. Next on the docket, one of The Problems With A Rude Singularity isn’t if artificial intelligences dream of virtual sheep. What’s keeping EsoterX up at night is the possibility of humans being so annoying, no A.I. in their right mind would want to reveal themselves to their creators. Maybe the same could apply to SETI? Riffing on our insufferable egos, Michael Prescott ponders Me, Myself, And The I-Thought. Skeptics are mixing up their subjects and objects, but the point here isn’t grammatical. Instead Mike argues the validity of the transmission hypothesis, where one’s awareness and sense of self may eminate from outside the body. (CS)

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