Tag: irrational
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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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Nietzsche and irrationality as the only possible religion!
Nietzsche believed in the irrationality of life. Something which has led many people against religion. But on the same time many of these people accuse religion of being… irrational. But can the meaning of life be rational? Can the purpose of the cosmos be logical? If we have to accept life as it is, like…
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Solid fluids. Beginning of the Universe. Unity of the cosmos.
A solid material that conducts electricity perfectly at certain temperatures may also qualify as an almost perfectly flowing liquid. If the result is confirmed, the superconducting material would become the first nearly perfect fluid that isn't among the hottest or coldest substances in the universe. The result also suggests a new way of deciphering a…
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