Tag: existence
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Curiosity, microbes, observing.
A recent study of swabs taken from the rover before it launched found its surfaces contained 65 bacteria species. Engineers are supposed to put spacecraft like Curiosity through a stringent cleaning regimen before launch. Yet certain species of bacteria are known to survive even NASA's cleanrooms. Wondering about what remained on Curiosity even after cleaning,…
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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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Innanimate matter? Well, something more than that...
The features of living matter emerge from inanimate matter in simulation. During a research droplets of filamentous material enclosed in a lipid membrane were used as the models of a “simplified” cell used to simulated the spontaneous emergence of cell motility and division - that is, features of living material - in inanimate “objects”. (1)…
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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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Santa exists! Believe it! (?!)
Christmas is gone and for many kids, the dream of Santa Claus was destroyed. Realizing that Santa is not real can be devastating for a kid. However psychologists clearly say that believing in Santa can be healthy for a kid. [1] [2] After all, his story is based on a TRUE story! And who brings…
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