A couple of citations from Vital Dust about Gaia, p. 220-221. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis She was the Mother Earth goddes of the ancient Greeks. Long forgotten, except in such words as geology, geography, and geometry, she has recently been revived by James Lovelock, a distinguished English scientist, an F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society), the most coveted [...]
Archive for September, 2010
September 11, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: biology
Social Tagging: Vital Dust
Filed under: biology
Social Tagging: Vital Dust
September 10, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: consciousness, physics
Social Tagging: everything-list • Vital Dust
Filed under: consciousness, physics
Social Tagging: everything-list • Vital Dust
The group Everything List is devoted to discussion of the mind-body problem. There was some interesting discussion about this recently What’s wrong with this? http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/13fea9ff2b590213/ A copy of my message where I have used a citation from Vital Dust there is below. For answers please follow the link above. on 07.09.2010 05:11 Rex Allen said the following: [...]
Chemical Basis for Minimal Cognition Martin M. Hanczyc and Takashi Ikegami Artificial Life 2010, Vol. 16, No. 3: 233-243. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/artl_a_00002 Abstract: We have developed a simple chemical system capable of self-movement in order to study the physicochemical origins of movement. We propose how this system may be useful in the study of minimal perception and [...]
I have seen the next announcement on the alife-announce list (see http://www.anarg.jp/bioambis2010/). In the future ambient information society, not only can a user obtain information in a flexible manner as in the ubiquitous information society, but also the information systems autonomously provide desired information to the user and control the environmental conditions according to the context [...]
September 2, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: biology, consciousness
Social Tagging: brain
Filed under: biology, consciousness
Social Tagging: brain
I have received an offer to download one audio book for free from Audible.de. Well, it happens that they have their own audio format, not mp3 and they use DRM. However, it was working with my iPod Shuffle and I have decided to take a bite. In Russian this called “halyava” and I could not resist [...]
On Linkedin in the group Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals there was an interesting discussion “Can we compute an answer to every question?” with over 600 comments. Here I have realized that I cannot give a good definition what computing is, in spite that I have been working with numerical methods all my life [...]
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