Tag: meaning of life
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Gods. Playing...
Humans trying to find the meaning of life. Humans trying to understand existence. Trying to decipher being. Philosophers trying to understand change. Physicists trying to define time. Biologists trying to know life. We were kids.Trying to play. But the game is no longer a game.Angered by our failures to know.Insisting to know more and more...…
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Worms… Deep below…
The sea bed in the deep ocean during the Cambrian period was thought to have been inhospitable to animal life because it lacked enough oxygen to sustain it. But research published in the scientific journal Geology reveals the existence of fossilized worm tunnels dating back to the Cambrian period - 270 million years before the…
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Understanding… nothing?
Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at school, identified clusters of learning difficulties which did not match the previous diagnosis the children had been given. The researchers from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge…
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Insignificant specks...
Vast universe. Huge planet. Look. In the desert. Insignificant specks. In the forest. Smiling. Walking down the road. (Good morning Madam!) Crying. Playing on the street. (Do you remember yourself as a child?) Cherries. Look. Feel the cold water. In a million years... We will not be here. Insignificant specks. Die. And the cosmos will…
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Building theories. Seeing what we want to see. Existing.
Scientists have created, for the first time a three-dimensional skyrmion in a quantum gas. The skyrmion was predicted theoretically over 40 years ago, but only now has it been observed experimentally. (1) We always “see” things we have theories about first. Even if we happen to see something totally unexpected, we always create theories to…
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