Category: Philosophy General
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Dogmas, science, assumptions and the need for Philosophy!
Horgan: What’s your opinion of the recent philosophy-bashing by Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson? Rovelli: Seriously: I think they are stupid in this. I have admiration for them in other things, but here they have gone really wrong. Look: Einstein, Heisenberg, Newton, Bohr…. and many many others of the greatest scientists of…
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Speaking infants…
Ιnfants can tell the difference between sounds of all languages until about 8 months of age when their brains start to focus only on the sounds they hear around them. It’s been unclear how this transition occurs, but social interactions and caregivers’ use of exaggerated “parentese” style of speech seem to help. University of Washington…
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Reality. In HD…
The world is our playground – especially when it is scanned and replicated exactly in a video game. A wave of new games use a technique called photogrammetry to produce digital replicas of the real world. The technique can be used to recreate rooms, objects, streets and even whole cities, says Krzysztof Plonka of special-effects…
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Colour and Soap…
Images of soap film. [1] Full of colors. Beautiful. Fleeting. Beautiful. Even though we do not completely understand why, we like them. What the hell, it MUST be philosophy in a hidden form of some kind…
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