Category: Being
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The beginning of life. The beginning?
Geologists in Ireland have rewritten the evolutionary history books by finding that oxygen-producing life forms were present on Earth some 3 billion years ago -- a full 60 million years earlier than previously thought. These life forms were responsible for adding oxygen to our atmosphere, which laid the foundations for more complex life to evolve…
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Sentient machines. Thinking in wholes. The impossibility of AI.
Sentient machines may never exist, according to a variation on a leading mathematical model of how our brains create consciousness. Over the past decade, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a mathematical framework for consciousness that has become one of the most influential theories in the field. According to…
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Past, present, future...
A smart application for phones, combining photos you take with pictures from the same place from the past. A smart application for phones, teaching philosophy... Photographs of the past, photographs of the present. (1, 2, 3) We walk next to everyone. The past, present, future - ideas in your brain. Next to your car there…
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Flowers. Being. For ever.
A flower. Creating seeds. Future and past locked together. Paused in time. (1) We can see them as if we were there. But wouldn't we always see them if we were there? Time is just another dimension… The flowers are here now. The flowers existed back then. Always. Along with us. I will always be…
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