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Apr 25, 2024
The illusion of consciousness | Robert Wright & Keith Frankish [The Wright Show]
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
02:15 Consciousness as an illusion10:02 How would a belief look in the brain?23:07 Two kinds of dualism29:49 What if you and I see blue differently?38:34 Is…
Apr 25, 2024
Scientist claims to have ‘evidence’ from ‘Second Law of Infodynamics’ that humanity lives in a simulation
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: energy, physics, space
A scientist at the University of Portsmouth claims to have ‘evidence’ that humanity exists with a simulation. In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the plot centers around the fact that we live in a digital simulation, and scientist Melvin Vopson claims that fact may match the fiction of the popular blockbuster.
Vopson has written extensively on the topic of the possibility that the known universe is a digital facsimile. He has provided articles for The Conversation and authored a book, Reality Reloaded, on the theme.
But while many of the theories posited about the universe being a simulation are in the realm of the abstract, Vopson now claims to have evidence that support his theory. “In physics, there are laws that govern everything that happens in the universe, for example how objects move, how energy flows, and so on. Everything is based on the laws of physics,” the scientist said in 2022, reports Popular Mechanics.
Apr 25, 2024
What is information by Entropic Information Theory #entropicinformation
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
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Select “More options” to see additional information, including details about managing your privacy settings. You can also visit g.co/privacytools at any time.
Apr 25, 2024
Chemotherapy may help cancer spread, according to new study
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Chemotherapy is the treatment of choice before most cancer surgeries, but a study from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York, using data from mouse models demonstrated that chemotherapy can paradoxically enhance cancer progression.
Apr 25, 2024
Scientist Says That Humans Are Almost Certainly Going Extinct
Posted by Chris Smedley in category: genetics
Apr 25, 2024
Nanomaterial that mimics proteins could be basis for new neurodegenerative disease treatments
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, neuroscience
A newly developed nanomaterial that mimics the behavior of proteins could be an effective tool for treating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells—with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect.
The innovative findings, recently published in the journal Advanced Materials, were made possible thanks to a collaboration between University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists and nanomaterial engineers at Northwestern University.
The work centers around altering the interaction between two proteins that are believed to be involved in setting the stage for diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
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Apr 25, 2024
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer”
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. But Intel’s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor is one of them, and Sandia National Laboratories is firing up a supercomputer with 1,152 of them interlinked to create what Intel is calling the largest neuromorphic system every assembled.
With Nvidia’s top-end “Blackwell” GPU accelerators now pushing up to 1,200 watts in their peak configurations, and require liquid cooling, and other accelerators no doubt following as their sockets get inevitably bigger as Moore’s Law scaling for chip making slows, this is a good time to take a step back and see what can be done with a reasonably scaled neuromorphic system, which not only has circuits which act more like real neurons used in real brains and also burn orders of magnitude less power than the XPUs commonly used in the datacenter for all kinds of compute.
