Category: Knowledge
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Silence. Master. Student.
Only when the student is ready, the master appears. Οἱ δὲ οἰκέται, καὶ εἴ τις ἄλλος ἐστὶν βέβηλός τε καὶ ἄγροικος, πύλας πάνυ μεγάλας τοῖς ὠσὶν ἐπίθεσθε. [And seal your ears to whoever uninitiated comes to you] Φθέγξομαι οἷς θέμις ἐστί· θύρας δ’ ἐπίθεσθε βέβηλοι. [Θα απευθύνω τους λόγους μου προς εκείνους, προς τους οποίους…
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Quantum mysteries. Information. Unity.
No one is about to claim that quantum physics is now easy to understand, but maybe it's not quite as devilishly complicated as we thought. New research suggests that two of the quantum world's most mysterious features, the uncertainty principle and wave-particle duality, are simply two sides of a single coin. "The connection between uncertainty…
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Knowing before seeing...
In the study published online in NeuroImage, the researchers showed that receiving information about a pair of items before seeing them may affect how well they are remembered. Moreover, the researchers also found that the activity in different areas of the brain was unexpectedly related to how the information was remembered. (1) We can know…
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Reading robots' mind? Not.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind. Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is,…
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