This is another toy (it is unclear if such things belong here). However, I thought the emergent complexity resulting from multiple interacting automata was worth showing.
you will need the latest version of java to view this
( click and drag things )
if you
...click in an empty area a moth appears
......on a moth it turns into...
2019 Ultra-short -1- Franco the Gondolier
I became nervous, it was 22 hundred hours and no one was coming for dinner, not that there was anything interesting to eat, just the Chinese carb rations dropped from above, and yet I thought that my fellow Italian refugees, will admire the prowess with which I, Franco, the old time gondolier, from...
What if we learn to read human brains down to the most intricate details?
What if we learn to record, in detail, every action that occurs within the brain, every synapse firing, every cell interaction, every memory?
What if if all of this data could then be stored on a computer and used to re-engineer a new, identical brain?
What if...
This was originally a comment to Shandora's first post. But I just started writing and decided to give it some space of it's own...
Consciousness and awareness, are more or less the same thing. If we take self-awareness out of the picture, it doesn't seem too different to the computers we use today - they are able to respond to changes in...
When computers were first invented, users had complete freedom and power, there was no other option but to allow it. However, if they didn't follow the computer's strict set of rules, the computer would break or just not work. Even in the days of Windows 3.11, computers remained obscure and frightening to the masses.
Once computers infiltrated...
I was just wondering....
If knowledge is power, then why are there so many "not-so knowledgeable" people in power today and the more knowledgeable are subordinates.
NOW before some of you start...I'm not contradicting the quote. I just thought it was funny.
Today, I think "having power" isn't what it used to be. AND...
How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.
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