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In the News
A New Kind of Sensory System
Until a few days ago there had been five known types of sensory receptors: Chemoreceptors, Pain Receptors, Thermoreceptors, Mechanoreceptors, and Photoreceptors. A group of bioengineers at the Geologic Intelligence Lab has now... Read More
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In the Lab this Week
Spooky Movement on a New Mexico Plateau
Over the last 13 years our researchers have been monitoring a SPOOKY movement of rocks on the Datil-Mogollon Section in New Mexico... Read More
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April 12th - 14th, THE GIL EXPO, Valencia CA... RSVP and Learn More
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Send a Letter to IGS
IGS wants to hear and LEARN from YOU
Your friendly neighborhood ROCK star can now do more than just exist, they can recieve mail! Get your own rock pen pal today... Get in touch here
The Entangled Archive
Hidden in an old ice factory in San Luis Obispo CA lies a carefully tended archive of materials, mostly rocks, chosen because of a special quality that sets them apart... Read More
Is this Consciousness?
Research on Igneous Rock 0427 (Igs for short) has shown evidence of self-recognition/self-awareness and metacognition, but is this enough evidence to conclude that Igs is experiencing aspects of consciousness? Igs has been given the ability to “see” through a video feed, and seems to have the ability to recognize itself through this video...Read More
AI or Just I?
Transhumanists have placed an image of the future in our collective imaginings that draws largely from the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), entrancing us with the possible pitfalls and moral questions an AI force would bring to our world. AI is inherently fascinating because it focuses on reproducing ourselves... Read More
In Memorium: Inderpal Isi Larsen and Eleonor Abrahmson
When, on the occasion of a loved one’s death, you are asked to speak of and for them, it is expected that you will speak of what they have left behind. Moments of intimacy, extraordinary and mundane, if no less memorable, in the hearts and minds... Read More
GIL Gives Thanks To:
The Society of the Talking Octopus - Leaders in Non Human Intelligence Rights
Learn more about our supporters hereFun Fact
Igneous rock, the material Igs was named for, is formed when magma deep within the earth becomes trapped in small pockets
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