My keynote on how dictatorships constitute the biggest threat to the progress of humanity on the planetary scale.
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Did Life on Mars Self-Destruct?
An overview of the possibilities of life on Mars and recent science that suggests that it may have gone extinct by its own doing.
An exploration of time scales and time passage and its relation to the Fermi Paradox as a straightforwards solution.
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Fermi Paradox: Degrading Civilizations
An exploration of the idea of asymptotic or homeostatic civilizations that degrade over time, thus solving the Fermi Paradox.
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‘Mystery’ condition causing ‘terrifying’ hallucinations in one million Britons
More than one-third of UK health experts are not aware of Charles Bonnet syndrome — CBS — a condition which can cause vivid, and sometimes frightening, hallucinations.
A poll of 1,100 health experts — including GPs, doctors and optometrists — found 37 per cent were not aware of CBS.
The condition is not caused by mental health problems or dementia. It is purely due to a loss of sight — 60 per cent or more — which reduces or stops the regular messages from the eye to the brain.
Thomas Yeo: Human brain network organization across different timescales
The human brain is a complex system exhibiting multi-scale spatiotemporal organization. In this talk, I will provide an overview of my lab’s work on large-scale functional network organization across different timescales. First, I will present a biophysically plausible model of second-level fluctuation in the brain’s functional connectivity patterns. I will then discuss how minute-level task-state changes can predict behavioral traits. This is followed by exploring how brain dynamics can vary over the course of a day. Finally, I will discuss our work on estimating individual-level network markers that are stable across weeks and months.
This video is part of the SNAC seminar series organized by Mac Shine, Joe Lizier, and Ben Fulcher (The University of Sydney).
Hear professor’s prediction on the future of AI tools
The first 5 minutes are well worth it.
ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with users and can provide lengthy and thorough responses to questions and prompts, is stunning users. Professor Scott Galloway from NYU Stern School of Business joins CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss. #CNN #News
Lee Hood on Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
In this video, Dr. Lee Hood traces the beginnings of systems biology and the founding of the Institute for Systems Biology to its role in the creation of systems (P4) medicine and ISB’s recent affiliation with Providence.