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Aug 25, 2024

Quantum entanglement: A simple way to fully grasp this ‘impossible’ concept

Posted by in categories: mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics

Measurement in quantum mechanics presents unique challenges. Observing one particle in an entangled pair determines the states of both, leading to critical inquiries: What constitutes a ‘measurement,’ and how does it influence our understanding of reality?

The complex mathematics underpinning quantum mechanics — incorporating concepts like Hilbert spaces, wave functions, and operators — can be intimidating, rendering entanglement less accessible to many.

Simply put, quantum entanglement is just too complicated for most people to fully understand. It defies classical intuitions, involves sophisticated mathematics, and urges us to reevaluate our understanding of reality.

Aug 25, 2024

Big News For Quantum Computing: Scalable Qubits and Quantum Teleportation Achieved

Posted by in categories: computing, open access, quantum physics

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Timestamps:
00:00 — Breakthrough in Quantum Computing.
10:45 — Quantum Teleportation achieved.
15:38 — New Quantum Devices.
20:00 — Explaining my absence.

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Aug 25, 2024

Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit The Self After All

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy – with several rival theories in contention.

A recent scoping review of over 1,000 articles identified over 20 different theoretical accounts. Philosophers like David Chalmers argue that no single scientific theory can truly explain consciousness.

We define consciousness as embodied subjective awareness, including self awareness. In a recent article published in Interalia (which is not peer reviewed), we argue that one reason for this predicament is the powerful role played by intuition.

Aug 25, 2024

Understanding the Difference between Self-Awareness and Consciousness

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Understand the difference between self-awareness and consciousness and learn key ways of how to raise your self-awareness and consciousness.

Aug 25, 2024

Reconfigurable neuromorphic memristor network for ultralow-power smart textile electronics

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology

Neuromorphic computing memristors are attractive to construct low-power-consumption electronic textiles. Here, authors report an ultralow-power textile memristor network of Ag/MoS2/HfAlOx/carbon nanotube with reconfigurable characteristics and firing energy consumption of 1.9 fJ/spike.

Aug 25, 2024

Neuromorphic computing with memristors: from device to system — Professor Huaqiang Wu

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Recently, computation in memory becomes very hot due to the urgent needs of high computing efficiency in artificial intelligence applications. In contrast to von-neumann architecture, computation in memory technology avoids the data movement between CPU/GPU and memory which could greatly reduce the power consumption. Memristor is one ideal device which could not only store information with multi-bits, but also conduct computing using ohm’s law. To make the best use of the memristor in neuromorphic systems, a memristor-friendly architecture and the software-hardware collaborative design methods are essential, and the key problem is how to utilize the memristor’s analog behavior. We have designed a generic memristor crossbar based architecture for convolutional neural networks and perceptrons, which take full consideration of the analog characteristics of memristors. Furthermore, we have proposed an online learning algorithm for memristor based neuromorphic systems which overcomes the varation of memristor cells and endue the system the ability of reinforcement learning based on memristor’s analog behavior.

Full abstract and speaker details can be found here: https://nus.edu/3cSFD3e.

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Aug 25, 2024

On-device machine learning with memristors in the neuromorphic era

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Aug 25, 2024

“Neural organoids, potential consciousness, and ethical consequences” | Søren Holm

Posted by in categories: media & arts, neuroscience

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Aug 25, 2024

Cerebral organoids: What are lab-grown ‘minibrains’?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

In the past decade, lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue began making news headlines, as they ushered in a new era of scientific discovery and raised a slew of ethical questions.

These blobs — scientifically known as brain organoids, but often called “minibrains” in the news — serve as miniature, simplified models of full-size human brains. These organoids can potentially be useful in basic research, drug development and even computer science.

Aug 25, 2024

What Counts as Consciousness

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and then, at midnight, ran up to the summit of Mount Wilson, the 5,710-foot peak that looms over Los Angeles.

After an hour of “stumbling around with my headlamp and becoming nauseated,” as he later described the incident, he realized the nighttime adventure was probably not a smart idea, and climbed back down, though not before shouting into the darkness the last line of William Ernest Henley’s 1,875 poem “Invictus”: “I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.”

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