I'm working on a Remy-XO Cognac and the room is semi-filled with contractors...mostly Australian. This "sports" bar usually houses the Stanford Alumni, Profs...
I found this neat post describing why humans are "dualists". I've recently suspected that religion is genetic, given that about 86% of the world's population...
This is kinda rambly, so I apologize up front. To me duality is just an illusion/artifact of how our brain processes scenario planning for goal acquisition...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/06/next_future_sal.html Good futuristic practice is to shift traditions, not being bound by them....
... One idea I had is, we could go on a little field trip and do a tour of SLAC. Unfortunately it looks like the 29th is the only available day in July. So...
Just a quick update. I added 4 new laws to the list of laws page: - Kurzweil's Law, - Schneier's Law, - Gore's Law, and - Kazaa's Law. They've all been...
... The Alcor North group is going to see the Movie "I Robort" at Shoreline on Sunday July 25th. These events are followed by an early dinner and discussion at...
... Yes it is. ... Sort of. It was believed to be literally true, but now we know it's only probabalistically true. I've already written about this on my other...
Sorry for the long break in the conversation, I've been very busy. I'm just going to respond to this one message now (and this has taken me a few hours to...
... I disagree that this is the case especially when personal taste thown into the picture. Best implies apples to apples comparison when it could be apples to...
... There are a few flawed assumption in how most of these experts arrived at their numbers. Most analyses currently being made by people who are current on...
... Last I heard, neurons were generally viewed as delivering information at just a few bits per second. If the timing of each pulse were significant, that...
Hi Wayne, thanks for the time and effort to find areas of agreement and disagreement. Perhaps some others can jump in and clarify how futurists might think...
Kenneth Bruce Malpass
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If our present material universe is 10 to 20 billion years of age,and if we compare that age with the infinite age of the endless space that houses this...
It appears that single packets of glutamate can modify synapses. This may be the mechanism by which long-term memories are created--not during REM, but during...
... For the general cognitive function of the brain, timing is not significant. However, timing phase relationships is important for raw sensor signal...
What's New at HowStuffWorks! July 12, 2004 http://www.howstuffworks.com Hello, Joschka Fischer! New at HowStuffWorks: Breast implants are becoming a popular...
I've seen the movie; it was in Tucson AZ several weeks ago. I'm not surprised to hear it's cult-produced. I found it not very useful; it implied a lot more...
Hey folks... ...wanna live longer? Don't wait or navigate singularity drivel. Don't buy what Chris is selling. Don't wait on Stanford's belated Bio-X program...
Well...what did you expect? Why should Microsoft make all the $$ stealing and blocking people with Intellectual Property & patent infringement hippocracy...
Apologies...the Guardian main link changes every day. This link is frozen to the article from yesterday. Note: Subsumes under technology is only for the monied...
Exhibit: Traveling beyond your wildest imagination Through September 30, Brown Gallery, Doe Library http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/index.html#future Most of...
... July 16, 2004 BEIRUT JOURNAL A Cellphone Boycott Fails to Produce Sounds of Silence By NEIL MacFARQUHAR EIRUT, Lebanon, July 15 - The Lebanese went through...
Yes, it's very last minute. But Mike Korns, Gilda Cabral and I, at least, will be heading over to the Crossroads Café tonight for a "Mini Salon" like we had...
Mellow or Stressed? Mom's Care Can Alter DNA of Her Offspring Wall Street Journal Science Page July 16, 2004 If anyone out there still believes that DNA is...
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