Tag: irrational
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Cancelling your eyes. Making everything still. Flying…
Scientists analyzed how the brain of a fly compensates for its own movement when seeing and found out that indeed specific neurons are suppressed in order to keep the fly… flying. When a gust of wind unexpectedly blows a fly off course, for example, a powerful reflex known as the optomotor response causes the insect’s…
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Arranged marriages or marriages out of love? A not so easy to answer question…
– Have your married out of love? – Of course! What a silly question! Is it silly? While in our society and in any other “progressive” society the marriage out of love is the norm, there are still some societies (like India, S. Arabia etc.) where many marriages are arranged. The question is whether these…
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Harmonia Philosophica – The philosophy of the irrational! (MiLAct16 conference presentation)
Could all philosophers be correct at the same time? Could time be an illusion? Have we lost connection with the One? Do we over-analyze things? Are we too logical in an illogical world? Does science progress through logic or through “madness”? Thinking logically entails the acceptance of various assumptions. But can thought based on assumptions…
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Chess: random wise moves. Not possible. From a computer anyway. [OR: The futility of artificial intelligence]
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. At the beginning of the second game the computer made…
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Raw chicken. Τime-reversal mirror. Living to your birth.
Light that strikes a new and improved mirror is always returned to sender. South Korean physicists have created a composite mirror, made up of about a thousand tiny reflectors, that coaxes light waves to retrace, in reverse, the paths taken by the original waves that struck it. As a result, the researchers were able to…
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