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Emotion and Reason Balanced: The Mind’s Consequence?
For example, in 1704 Sir Isaac Newton struggled to devise mathematical formulas to equate the vibrational frequency of sound waves with a corresponding wavelength of light. He failed to find his hoped-for translation algorithm, but the idea of correspondence took root, and the first practical application of it appears to be the clavecin oculaire, an…
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Science’s Responsibility While Investigating Consciousness?
Our attempt to justify our beliefs logically by giving reasons results in the “regress of reasons.” Since any reason can be further challenged, the regress of reasons threatens to be an infinite regress. However, since this is impossible, there must be reasons for which there do not need to be further reasons: reasons which do…
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Democritus had Passion and Heat?
It seems “humour” is pervading the internet today, so I thought I would add my take. Democritus Laughing, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628, in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam According to legend, Democritus was supposed to be mad because he laughed at everything, and so he was sent to Hippocrates to be cured. Hippocrates pointed out that he…
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Hippies, Rock Bands, and Woodstock
There is a reason for this article. Bee was kind to point to this article, ““Artist on LSD” for consideration. 2 hours 45 minutes after first dose. Patient tries to climb into activity box, and is generally agitated – responds slowly to the suggestion he might like to draw some more. He has become largely…
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Ring World
Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed (for example, by the impact of a projectile such as a bullet) – a technology which is quickly approaching reality; in fact being tested during the 2006 Winter Olympics as a product called d3o Lest…
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Below the Surface is a Pattern
Stephen Hawking: However, by using “matter/antimatter annihilation”, velocities just below the speed of light could be reached, making it possible to reach the next star in about six years. While I presented the “break through in propulsion system” used for space travel by explaining the ideas behind Susskind’s “thought experiment.” It is with that thinking,…
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The Higg’s Boson and Memory?
While some like chocolate bars and the bubble nature of candy, some also like the molasses and ice cream? :) If Plato Had thought “the new born” was not really such a “blank slate” then what did he mean exactly? If we could remember, “in what form” would these memories have manifested? The origins of…
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"Lead by Physics," Faces the "Trouble With Physics"
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC…
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Donald Coxeter: The Man Who Saved Geometry
“I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered.”Harold Scott Macdonald (H. S. M.) Coxeter Some would stop those from continuing on, and sharing the world behind…
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