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Aug 12, 2023

Daniel Dennett: Consciousness is a User Illusion (User Interface)

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August 6, 2021

Daniel Dennett on Consciousness, Virtual Immortality, and Panpsychism | Closer To Truth Chats.

Aug 12, 2023

1960: A Vision of the Future, by Arthur C. Clarke

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http://www.ThoughtPollution.org — “If what I say now seems to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell appears absolutely unreasonable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.”

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Aug 12, 2023

Muons are still behaving oddly, which could break particle physics

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An experiment at Fermilab in the US suggests that muons rotate faster than expected, which would be a problem for the standard model of particle physics.

By Leah Crane

Aug 12, 2023

What is Panpsychism? | Rupert Sheldrake, Donald Hoffman, Phillip Goff, James Ladyman

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What is panpsychism? Does it finally offer an explanation of consciousness? From the problems with materialism to the tradition of dualism, we asked the world’s leading thinkers to explain all.

#panpsychism #consciousness #reality #philosophy #mind.

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Aug 12, 2023

Quantum Echoes: A Revolutionary Method to Store Information as Sound Waves

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Quantum computing, just like traditional computing, requires a method to store the information it uses and processes. In the computer you’re using right now, information—whether it be photos of your dog, a reminder about a friend’s birthday, or the words you’re typing into your browser’s address bar—must be stored somewhere. Quantum computing, a relatively new field, is still exploring where and how to store quantum information.

In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Physics

As the name implies, Nature Physics is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal covering physics and is published by Nature Research. It was first published in October 2005 and its monthly coverage includes articles, letters, reviews, research highlights, news and views, commentaries, book reviews, and correspondence.

Aug 12, 2023

DARPA Aims to Develop New Synthetic Quantum Materials That Could Radically Improve Quantum Computing

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new program it says will develop synthetic metamaterials that could lead to breakthroughs in quantum computing and information science.

Called the Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures program, or SynQuaNon, the new DARPA initiative “aims to address this challenge with a fundamental science effort that seeks to develop synthetic metamaterials to enable enhanced functionalities and novel capabilities,” read a statement issued by the agency this week.

The program aims to produce a range of new quantum materials that will have a variety of uses in quantum computing and other information science applications.

Aug 12, 2023

Exponential Future of the Universe #shorts

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Aug 12, 2023

Study identifies characteristics specific to human brains

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, neuroscience

Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified cellular and molecular features of the brain that set modern humans apart from their closest primate relatives and ancient human ancestors. The findings, published in Nature, offer new insights into human brain evolution.

“Most on the have focused on neurons because this cell type was thought to be responsible for our intelligence and enhanced . This study gives us a renewed appreciation for other cells involved in and the role they have played both in advancing cognition and our susceptibility to a number of cognitive diseases,” said study leader Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience and a member of the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern.

Since , people have been curious about what gives humans abilities that other animals don’t have, such as speech and language, Dr. Konopka explained. A range of previous studies have sought to answer this question by examining anatomy or performing genetic or on whole brains or sections, experiments that provide a view of thousands of cells at a time.

Aug 12, 2023

Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces

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Talk kindly contributed by Michael Levin in SEMF’s 2022 Spacious Spatiality.

https://semf.org.es/spatiality.

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Aug 12, 2023

China’s Military Laser Weapon Could Outperform US Technology

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According to Chinese military experts, they have created a novel cooling mechanism that enables high-energy lasers to run “infinitely” without producing any waste heat. South China Morning Post claims that researchers at the National University of Defence Technology in Changsha, Hunan province, claim that the novel cooling system fully avoids the dangerous heat produced by high-energy laser operation.