A somewhat gloomy citation from Vital Dust by Christian de Duve (Chapter 26, Brain, p. 240): The human brain has completed all the neurons it will ever make some five month before birth. Contrary to what happens to other cell types, multiplication of neurons ceases after that. Henceforth, neurons only die, starting in uter0, to [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Sometimes I write about books and I have applied for Amazon associates to advertize these books. The use of the links from Amazon associates happened to be problematic though. They produce them as iframe and WordPress does not like iframe. When I copy the code to the HTML editor and then go back to the visual editor, [...]
August 21, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: simulation argument
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Social Tagging: simulation argument
Some time ago, I have occasionally found Nick Bostrom, Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? http://www.simulation-argument.com/ I should say that this idea looks crazy but on the other hand why not? The page of Prof Schmidhuber adds mathematical insight into this problem Computable Universes & Algorithmic Theory of Everything http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/computeruniverse.html Interestingly enough, it was [...]
August 21, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Forgotten Revolution
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Social Tagging: Forgotten Revolution
A couple of citations from Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution, How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn “The departure of physics from the ancient scientific method started at the turn of the twentieth century, when an enormous increase in the range of observed phenomena demanded the creation of [...]
August 21, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Different Universe • Robert Laughlin
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Social Tagging: Different Universe • Robert Laughlin
An interesting citation from Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe, Chapter 4, Water, Ice, and Vapor, p. 42. By the most important effect of phase organisation is to cause objects to exist. This point is subtle and easily overlooked, since we are accustomed to thinking about solidification in terms of packing of Newtonian spheres. Atoms [...]
August 15, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Vital Dust
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Social Tagging: Vital Dust
Some citations from Christian de Duve, Vital Dust, 1995. Chapter 13, The Universality of Life In the introduction to this book, I argued on theoretical grounds – remember the thirteen spades – that the ermergance of life must have involved a very large number of steps, most of which had a high probability of occuring [...]
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