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David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU, joins us to discuss his newest book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Virtual reality as genuine reality.
–Why VR is compatible with the good life.
–Why we can never know whether we’re in a simulation.
–Consciousness in virtual realities.
–The ethics of simulated beings.

You can find the page for the podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2022/01/26/david-chalmers-on-realit…hilosophy/

Listen to the audio version of this episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-chalmers-on-real…0549092329

Check out David’s book and website here: http://consc.net/

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“Unlimited Possibilities” — New Law of Physics Could Predict Genetic Mutations

According to a University of Portsmouth study, a new physics law could allow for the early prediction of genetic mutations.

The study discovers that the second law of information dynamics, or “infodynamics,” behaves differently from the second law of thermodynamics. This finding might have major implications for how genomic research, evolutionary biology, computing, big data, physics, and cosmology develop in the future.

Lead author Dr. Melvin Vopson is from the University’s School of Mathematics and Physics. He states “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. One of the most powerful laws is the second law of thermodynamics, which establishes that entropy – a measure of disorder in an isolated system – can only increase or stay the same, but it will never decrease.”

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Clarketech: Anti-Gravity

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Perhaps one of the most common technologies seen in science fiction is anti-gravity and gravity manipulation. Today we’ll examine if there’s an scientific pathways in physics to permit such technology, and what sort of amazing options it might offer if developed in the future.

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Are warp drives science now?

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Today we’ll talk about one of my favorite topics, warp drives. I am fascinated by warp drives because they are future technology straight out of science fiction and yet they are not for any obvious reason impossible. After all, Einstein taught us that space can indeed deform and that distances can indeed shrink and that time can indeed dilate. So why not bend and deform space-time to get us faster from one place to another?

Well, the devil is in the details. While warp drives have been studied in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, they require unphysical stuff: negative energies, repulsive gravity, or things that move faster than light already. In this video, I summarize what new scientific literature has been published on this in the past year, and what progress has been made.

The new paper from Erik Lentz is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abe692

The press release is here: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6192

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Light accelerates conductivity in nature’s ‘electric grid’

The natural world possesses its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that “breathe” by exhaling excess electrons.

In a new study, Yale University researchers discovered that is a surprising ally in fostering this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria. Exposing bacteria-produced nanowires to light, they found, yielded an up to a 100-fold increase in electrical conductivity.

The findings were published Sept. 7 in the journal Nature Communications.

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Manufacturers could save time and money with the help of new research led by the Clemson Composites Center

The Clemson Composites Center is developing new ways of 3D-printing low-cost manufacturing tools and is funding the research with $5.16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office and industry partners. Collaborators on the project include Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, Ohio State University and Additive Engineering Solutions, LLC.

The Clemson Composites Center is leading a new study that could help manufacturers save time and money while reducing their environmental impact– a project that adds to the center’s fast-growing portfolio of industry-guided automotive and advanced manufacturing research.

The team is developing new ways of 3D-printing low-cost manufacturing tools and is funding the research with $5.16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office and industry partners. Collaborators on the project include Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, Ohio State University and Additive Engineering Solutions, LLC.

The project will be based in the Clemson Composites Center’s cutting-edge facility in Greenville, South Carolina, placing it in the heart of a state where advanced manufacturing is a cornerstone of the economy.

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Meat ads to be banned from public spaces, Netherlands to go meat-free? | World News | WION

A sad day for meat-lovers?

A Dutch city has decided to ban all meat advertisements from public spaces in an effort to reduce the consumption and green gas emissions. Haarlem in the Netherlands will enforce the ban from 2024 and with this it will become the first city in the world to ban meat ads.

#MeatAds #DutchCity #WorldNews.

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Out of thin air: new solar-powered invention creates hydrogen fuel from the atmosphere

Well that’s a game changer.

Researchers have created a solar-powered device that produces hydrogen fuel directly from moisture in the air.

According to its inventors, the prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and can work in air that is as dry as 4% relative humidity. The device would allow hydrogen to be produced without carbon emissions even in regions where water on land is scarce, they say.

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