Brains working towards machine consciousness

I have added the Google Friend Connect 'membership' gadget to the site.  This doesn't actually let people join the site (you can do that by registering, if you convince me you are human, interesting/ed and not a spam bot!) but it does allow you to use an existing Google, Yahoo etc. ID to register your interest in the site and also to use various platforms you might be signed up to, to share it with your friends (or maybe people you really, really hate :-))