This is my response to a debate between Ben Goertzel and Hugo De Garis who both build artificial intelligence and speculate about what it leads to and the possibility aliens may have already done it. Normal religions help us understand the universe as much as a 1000 year old physics book. That leaves a lot of questions... If you're not more...
Andrew Fazekas
for National Geographic News
Published January 11, 2011
Small specks of dust found in our Milky Way galaxy are the fastest twirlers yet—spinning more than ten billion times a second, astronomers announced today.
Scientists found the tiny grains—each just 10 to 50 atoms wide—using the recently launched European...
We've all seen the lights fade and the news reader collate the shuffled pages on the desk in front of them as the news finishes. It adds a realistic flavour to the show, a physical dimensions which is otherwise completely forgotten in the television experience. Moreover it adds a strong professionalism, portraying the clean, efficient and even...
Buffers, byte order, streaming... Forget that complication. Here's the general solution for making your speakers and microphones do anything you want. With only basic Java programming skills (a first year college class) you can do what took me years to learn: Define sound as numbers from -1 to 1 at each instant in time.
Most people think...
Game theory. Secrets vs freedom of speech. Hierarchy vs symmetric organization. From where we are in history (how society is organized, global power dynamics, how we think, etc), it appears that all paths (to possible futures) that average people can imagine lead to nuclear war and extinction. When? After a few more things like Wikileaks or the...
Computations performed in chemical systems of the living cell approach the sophistication of small neural networks. Additionally, the extensive interdependence of chemical and electrochemical computation blurs the line between spiking-mediated computation and chemical-genetic computation. The assumption that consciousness is mediated by known...
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REMINERALIZATION
of the SOIL
Benefits of Remineralization
Provides slow, natural release of elements and trace minerals.
Increases the nutrient intake of...
Studying biology, or any science, seems to present itself in a more shallow (though, no less intelligent) way than it should be in its universal sense. Schools teach us the consequences of the universe, but I'm sure many think what was the cause:
why does this happen, why doesn't that happen, how does it do that, etc...
My thought came about...
Has anyone noticed the avalanche of beauty and make-up products related blogs that's been drowning the world wide web? Not just blogging platforms, but youtube also, and some other social media websites.
It simply baffles me.
There are so many girls out there who spend their days buying make-up products, using them, and writing about their...
As we see it, though, there are critical gaps in the disciplines that cities and citizens might naturally call upon to help them grasp this opportunity. As a profession, interaction design has tended to have problems thinking beyond the screen; it lacks any account of large-scale physical, spatial or social environments. Meanwhile, the fields that...
i was listening to the radio today and heard this song and thought it would be worth sharing, i assumed not everyone here listens to the same music so if this is new to you- enjoy
The indulgence of our lives has cast a shadow on our world.
Our devotion to our appetites betrayed us all.
An apocalyptic plight.
More destruction will...
growing up my mom had a trinket in the kitchen hanging up that read "if your mind can conceive it, and your heart can believe it, then you can achieve it." This sign caught my eye on a recent visit and got me thinking so i was trying to have a conversation with a friend and i was trying to explain how i believe if i focus- in my mind i...