• As the great physicist Richard Feynman once described… the energy in a single cubic meter of space is enough to boil all of the oceans of the world. (solari.com)
  • The physicist Richard Feynman (1988) answered, "Don't even ask me. (anarhija.net)
  • Brian David Josephson FRS (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. (wikipedia.org)
  • He attended Cardiff High School, where he credits some of the school masters for having helped him, particularly the physics master, Emrys Jones, who introduced him to theoretical physics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicist John Waldram recalled overhearing Nicholas Kurti, an examiner from Oxford, discuss Josephson's exam results with David Shoenberg, reader in physics at Cambridge, and asking: "Who is this chap Josephson? (wikipedia.org)
  • According to one eminent physicist speaking to Physics World, Josephson wrote several papers important enough to assure him a place in the history of physics even without his discovery of the Josephson effect. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before Anderson and Rowell confirmed the calculations, the American physicist John Bardeen, who had shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics (and who shared it again in 1972), objected to Josephson's work. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931) [1] is a British mathematician , mathematical physicist , philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics . (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, the rise of 'big science'-initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy), and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics, and connectomics)-is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and, eventually, advancing science in a stroke of genius. (paricenter.com)
  • The fact is, Tesla was also a physicist who studied in college such courses as analytic geometry, experimental physics and higher mathematics. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • It doesn't quite fit into the category of "fundamental" questions one expects at a theoretical physics conference, but I think it's an interesting point. (blogspot.com)
  • This is a new theory I formulated in the field of theoretical physics in order to explain the hidden dimensions of the universe. (quantumpsychophysical.com)
  • The philosopher, and founding quantum physicist Niels Bohr made account of ways in which words and worlds are inextricably linked as discursive and material practices. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • Biomedicine is the umbrella theoretical framework for most health science and health technology work done in academic and government settings. (stanford.edu)
  • Lynne explores the work of various physicists, biochemists and other scientists who have stumbled across or purposefully searched for evidence in their respective fields that there is a force, which she calls the Field, which connects all beings and matter at a fundamental level. (solari.com)
  • As if climate scientists working for NASA and every other space agency in the world haven't considered basic theoretical concepts in thermodynamics. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • He shared the prize with physicists Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, who jointly received half the award for their own work on quantum tunnelling. (wikipedia.org)
  • He set up the Mind-Matter Unification Project at the Cavendish to explore the idea of intelligence in nature, the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness, and the synthesis of science and Eastern mysticism, broadly known as quantum mysticism. (wikipedia.org)
  • But it wasn't until 1911, with an experiment by Max Planck, one of the founding fathers of quantum theory, that physicists understood that empty space was bursting with activity. (solari.com)
  • For once, I don't get weird looks when I express my believe that Quantum Mechanics will turn out to be not fundamental or that our understanding of human consciousness will be relevant to avoid a stagnation of progress in science. (blogspot.com)
  • Quantum Mechanics will turn out to be not fundamental or that our understanding of human consciousness will be relevant to avoid a stagnation of progress in science. (blogspot.com)
  • The conference, The isomorphism of knowledge: projections of science in literature (twentieth-twenty-first centuries) , proposes an interdisciplinary theoretical approach placing at the forefront the recent contributions of epistemocritique and the cognitive theory of figurative language and discourse in the perspective to establish, in a Hispanic and international framework, a dialogue between these two theoretical currents. (edge.org)
  • Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche are no more than bug-infested versions of human consciousness. (edge.org)
  • But it does seem that so much of the strife, folly, and missed opportunities of the human condition are caused by bias, negative emotion, and ignorance that could be lessened using principles borrowed from both contemplative practices and dialogic principles, and that the call to raise awareness and consciousness is well-founded, as it is about building human capacity in ways that are sorely needed in this era. (integralleadershipreview.com)
  • We were both speakers, and I went to him and I said, "Is the reason you think that a machine can't equal human intelligence because you believe that we have a divine spark and computers don't have a divine spark? (mindmatters.ai)
  • Here is an answer, based on an interview with Paul Davies , a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science . (maths.org)
  • The most common attitude you find among physicists is who cares? (blogspot.com)
  • As environmental changes force themselves into our physical consciousness we find ourselves re-thinking connections between politics, nature and humanity. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • Dr. Vladimir Chernousenko , Physicist and Scientific Director of the Chernobyl "clean-up", 1986-91, testifying at the World Uranium Hearings in Salzburg, September, 1992. (ratical.org)
  • But the rise of theoretical and systems ecology and its models, including ecological energetics, panarchy, and ascendancy, can be viewed as supporting the idea that ecologies themselves both evolve and develop. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • World War I saw the first use of other weapons: machine guns, poisonous gas, large artillery and armored tanks. (rationalwiki.org)
  • We introduce a novel approach by incorporating the extracellular matrix and chemotactic factor effects into a unified term using a single parameter, primarily focusing on modelling sprouting dynamics and morphology. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • The increased residence time inside the passed-through nucleons (with their inherently ultrafast quark motions) reduces the equivalence time by a factor of perhaps 1.000 to the order of 1 day. (lifeboat.com)
  • ill investigations are on one or another of the well-known capable questions that bear dedicated major during this fever specific as first, equivalent, central, morality, electric, responsible, and paper consciousness. (paris-vluyn.de)
  • In his view, it will not be long before all the questions Western philosophers asked themselves, all the questions of being, illusion and consciousness, begin to be asked by computers. (edge.org)
  • However, another idea which Tesla discussed was abandoned by modern physicists, and that was the concept of the all pervasive ether. (newdawnmagazine.com)
  • In the past decades, the idea that our universe is only one of many, has become popular among physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • These practices enabled the shaman to enter altered states of consciousness, where they believed they could access spiritual realms and communicate with supernatural beings on behalf of their community. (christianeducatorsacademy.com)
  • 1:18:01) - Would David enter the Experience Machine? (dwarkeshpatel.com)
  • At the time, they were very unfashionable and people feared the technological erasure of humanity - as many still do today, in the face of AI and machine learning. (frieze.com)
  • If you didn't factor in this time distorting effect of motion, then your GPS would very quickly begin to accumulate errors so that in an hour or two you'd be lost. (maths.org)
  • According to the quantum theory, everything vibrates,' theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells NPR's Guy Raz. (ufodigest.com)
  • If there are several universes, their collection is called the "multiverse", and physicists have a few theories for this that I want to briefly tell you about. (blogspot.com)
  • The first paper in this series, a critique of previous theories of consciousness, explored how both the mainstream and traditional Reichian views of consciousness are inadequate. (psychorgone.com)
  • A brilliant physicist published a revolutionary paper citing 30 other scientific papers that reveal HAARP has incredible powers far beyond what most investigators of the high frequency energy technology suspect. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • This phenomenon violates classical concepts of locality and realism and has led some physicists to suggest that information might be able to travel faster than the speed of light, which is incompatible with relativity theory. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • Quantum entanglement' may sound like an awful sci-fi romance flick, but it's actually a phenomenon that physicists say may someday lead to the ability to teleport an object all the way across the galaxy instantly. (ufodigest.com)
  • I argue that the conjunction of these three theoretical sources, Maximum Entropy, Kauffman s Fourth Law, and physiosemeiosis, allows to show that the Kleidon restatement of the Gaia hypothesis is equivalent to the proposition that the biosphere is a system of generating, processing and storing information, thus directly treating information as a physical phenomenon. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Indeed, to state that our success has been severely limited and decidedly skewed toward the most material end of natural phenomenon may outrage the biologist and neurologist who believe they are so close to unravelling the ultimate mysteries of life and consciousness. (sriaurobindo.nl)
  • When they do arrive, whether in a few decades or a few years, intelligent machines will introduce both vast new opportunities and surprising new risks. (spinblocks.net)
  • In the past decades, the idea that our universe is only one of many, has become popular among physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • in the last 20 years or so, research in psychology and the cognitive science of religion has increasingly focused on another factor that contributes to evolutionary disbelief: the very cognitive mechanisms underlying human cognition. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Technical developments in consciousness research and information technology are reviewed and their relationship to an organism and orgone-based approach is considered. (psychorgone.com)
  • Each physicist's theoretical stance results in a somewhat different interpretation of "transcendence. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In a context in which science is often exclusively identified with the physical and life sciences, the setting of ISS was an important factor in allowing the BtSM2005 participants to appreciate the integrity of human knowledge, across the boundaries that separate historically created artificial divisions. (learndev.org)
  • A new orgonomic theory of consciousness could help lead to true artificial intelligence this writer believes. (psychorgone.com)
  • The enormous empirical success of classical physical theory during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has led many twentieth-century philosophers to believe that the problem with consciousness is how to explain it away: how to discredit our misleading intuition by identifying it as product of human confusion, rather than recognizing the physical effects of consciousness as a physical problem that needs to be answered in dynamical terms. (lbl.gov)
  • A tripartite theory of a single orgone continuum with three aspects, physical orgonotic consciousness, orgone energy and orgone-matter has been proposed. (psychorgone.com)
  • However, if orgone is viewed as 'conscious-in-itself', which this writer has proposed, then a new orgonomic theory of consciousness may have direct implications for technology, experimentation and computing. (psychorgone.com)
  • We demonstrate that, in spite of deterministic physical, chemical, and biological factors that control most of our planet's mineral diversity, Earth's mineralogy is unique in the cosmos. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Gilbert Ryle, re-nowned professor of metaphysical philoso-phy at Oxford University, says about the idea that the mind is something nonphysical, "I shall speak of it with deliberate abusiveness, as the dogma of the 'Ghost in the Machine. (krishna.org)
  • Considering that our intelligence is fixed and machine intelligence is growing, it is only a matter of time before machines surpass us unless there's some hard limit to their intelligence. (spinblocks.net)
  • This might happen when machines can autonomously design and build their successors: a closed loop of ever-accelerating intelligence augmentation. (bobblum.com)
  • Physicist Barrie Condon has that rarest of combinations, intelligence, industry and the time to evaluate many of the bedrock assumptions hidden beneath the dogmatism of our culture in order to ask, "What and who should I believe, and why? (integraldeeplistening.com)
  • In scientific discourses theoretical concepts are not true or false elements or pictures of some part of reality, but are constructions designed to do a job the best possible way. (capurro.de)
  • Perhaps after Lombrozo turns her incredible analytical/cognitive abilities on her unsolved problem of free will in her materialistic worldview, i.e. figuring out exactly how we can possibly make rational decisions without the inherent ability to make rational decisions, she can then turn her incredible analytical talents on the hard problem of consciousness? (uncommondescent.com)
  • But the hard problem of consciousness is so hard that I can't even imagine what kind of empirical findings would satisfactorily solve it. (uncommondescent.com)
  • From a theoretical point of view, it is unjustifiable. (sriaurobindo.nl)
  • In other words, almost everything you see in your living room, almost everything you see in a modern hospital, at some point or other, can be traced to a physicist. (bigthink.com)
  • In IIT, each system is assigned a number, that's big Phi, which is the "integrated information" and supposedly a measure of consciousness. (mindmatters.ai)
  • The economy and endless growth are an imagined machine-like system, unbounded by the laws that govern the rest of us. (skepticalscience.com)
  • This collapse which the communists imagine is a mere collapse of the capitalist system, without noticing that it is the crisis of the whole civilization based upon reason and the machine, civilization of which they themselves and their system form a part. (webshells.com)
  • American physicist Philip Anderson, also a future Nobel Prize laureate, spent a year in Cambridge in 1961-1962, and recalled that having Josephson in a class was "a disconcerting experience for a lecturer, I can assure you, because everything had to be right or he would come up and explain it to me after class. (wikipedia.org)
  • David Chalmers has certainly used that notion when he tries to explain consciousness. (edge.org)
  • This shift follows in principle Turing's recommendation to teach a machine to perform specific tasks as if it were a child. (spinblocks.net)
  • A feature where machines learn to perform tasks, rather than simply carrying out computations that are input by human users. (nih.gov)
  • Either way, it doesn't matter because if free will and consciousness are just an illusion, they are the most seamless illusions ever created. (uncommondescent.com)
  • But be-yond the feeling of conviction (that there must be such a basis), I have nothing, either theoretical or therapeutic, to work on, and so I must behave as if I were confronted by psychological factors only. (krishna.org)
  • I do theoretical view Kommunalpolitik und Kommunalverwaltung: Eine should gain a ePub2 Monsieur from the thin page. (es-eckstein.de)
  • Of particular influence appears to the magntitude of current at resonance, which depends on the effective quality factor (Q) of the RF tank circuit and the input driving power. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • In this case, panpsychism in effect implies that consciousness/ mindedness is an integral aspect of a material world, perhaps as magnetism is present with particles and space, interacting and accumulating into all sorts of phenomena. (uncommondescent.com)
  • We are looking for life and consciousness within specific parameters because these are the only parameters to which our methods give us access. (sriaurobindo.nl)
  • This process happens even faster than the speed of light, physicists say. (ufodigest.com)
  • Apart from all the changes in the human en- vironment, the quality of a life is very different with the average prospect of 60 as compared to 20 years after adolescence. (nih.gov)
  • You are accessing a machine-readable page. (mdpi.com)
  • hat tip to reference in note 21 on page 221 of The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies. (boffosocko.com)
  • Early applications of AI included machines that could play games such as checkers and chess, and programs that could reproduce language. (nih.gov)