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We do a lot of stuff we don't know about about. A lot of stuff happens that we don't know about.The thing about life that astounds me is that you have to learn to be human, it isn't built in. And the more you know, the more you learn that there is to know. Conversely, you can choose to know very little.I explained to my some this evening that we live on the planet Earth and it blew my mind (hopefully it blew his). Then it truly dawned on me, here is a human brain that knows nothing about living on a planet. It's not in his DNA. It's something he learns. That is amazing.Asking the question, 'what is the answer to life' is like asking, 'what is the answer to math' or 'what is the answer to a zoo'. There is none, it is a process. Ask, 'what is the meaning of life' and that is like asking, 'what is the meaning of the wind', it just is. Now the question, 'how does it all work', is a different question, this is something that can be explored although perhaps never fully answered (depending on who you talk to).
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David Copeās software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?
Posted: 03-10-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: Music, Artifical Intelligence
Putting aside that cheery bit of news for a moment, another physicist recently said that even if that particular scenario didn't come to pass, the simple matter of traveling warp speed could kill you--all because of some stray hydrogen atoms.
Posted: 03-09-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: Physics
So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will. Say "Oh, well, it's just an historical anecdote. It's sophomoric. It's a question with no answer. Just forget about it." But the question keeps staring you right in the face. You think about individuality for example, who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make.
Posted: 03-09-10 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
We humans tend to think of communication as solely about formal languageā"preferably spoken. Instead, animals use things like movement, posture and even peeā"as well as soundsā"to share concepts like, "I want to play," or messages like, "There's food over here." As long it makes sense, communication has happened.
Posted: 03-08-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: BoingBoing, Animals
The correspondents know what life is all about, but it would be dangerous to impart that wisdom to the general public.
Posted: 03-08-10 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
Posted: 03-06-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: Astronomy, Catastrophe
The good news is, we can now control a pinball machine's flippers with our brains, as this demo at Germany's ceBIT Technology Fair proves. The bad news is, it's not going to make aspiring pinball hustlers look cool in bars.
Posted: 03-05-10 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
Tags: Technology, Brainwaves
As she spoke, I realized why my instincts were so completely off. In my misguided empathy I had committed what William James called the psychologist's fallacy, assuming incorrectly that one knows what someone else is experiencing. With this newly widowed patient I imagined that only a life of sadness and decrepitude remained, and I felt bad about it.
Posted: 03-03-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: Death, Psychology
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
Posted: 03-02-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Tags: Science
And now, just in time for Oscar junkies, comes a new statistical mincing of the movies that may someday yield an award category of its own: best fit between a movie's tempo and the natural rhythms of the brain.
Posted: 03-02-10 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
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"David Copeās software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?" - Incredible article - http://bit.ly/bKVJY4March 2nd 09:35 am
"Information is an action which occupies time rather than a state of being which occupies physical space." - http://bit.ly/clwseTFebruary 21st 09:48 pm
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." - Thomas Hobbes. The theme for this week's radio show.February 19th 08:54 am
"Visible light makes up less than one ten-billionth of the electromagnetic spectrum..." - Discover MagazineFebruary 18th 09:03 pm
Listened to an excellent interview with Rich Doyle on Erik Davis' 'Expanding Mind' radio show.Plants are intelligent. http://bit.ly/cA6MwM
"David Copeās software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?" - Incredible article - http://bit.ly/bKVJY4March 2nd 09:35 am
"Information is an action which occupies time rather than a state of being which occupies physical space." - http://bit.ly/clwseTFebruary 21st 09:48 pm
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." - Thomas Hobbes. The theme for this week's radio show.February 19th 08:54 am
"Visible light makes up less than one ten-billionth of the electromagnetic spectrum..." - Discover MagazineFebruary 18th 09:03 pm
Listened to an excellent interview with Rich Doyle on Erik Davis' 'Expanding Mind' radio show.Plants are intelligent. http://bit.ly/cA6MwM
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