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POPSSuperholographic Model of the Universe An extraordinary article. The idea seems to hark back to Leibniz's monads which always seemed very strange but has followers in the philosophy world. The discoveries of science seem to be getting more counter-intuitive as time goes by
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POPSArtificial General Intelligence: Barking up the wrong tree? The question is: could Kurzweil and Goertzel's Aritifical General Intelligence genuinely surpass the human brain? Or is ti simply mimicing it? Their solution still relies on computation, but there is no evidence that the human brain makes any such calculations to arrive at its conclusions. If so, what needs to be done in order to develop a computer system that works the same way as the human brain? And what about the mother of all conundrums: free will. Goertzel pretends it doesn't exist at all, but how could we motivate even a self-aware computer to do things on its own initiative?
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POPSPeople of science and religion need not disagree "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.--2 Peter 3:8" This is what I wondered aloud in Bible Study when I was 18. Maybe Genesis was a parable like most of the bible, and the earth was not literally created in six days. I asked our pastor why evolution couldn't be the method God used to create. And he called me an idiot. He was too preoccupied with shouting & stomping, being indignant and offended by the suggestion that he and a monkey have a common ancestor. That was when I was 18. I'll be 36 this month and I haven't been to church since. I'm against religion, but it's nice to see a pastor giving his students permission to at least open their minds a narrow crack. I don't know for sure, and YOU don't know either! Let's not fight about it.
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POPSThe Big Business of Global Warming Alarmism Via Aguman's clip: Global warming is an official pseudo-science. "'Global warming' is likely to be the most expensive pseudo-scientific hoax ever implemented. As of August 22, 2005 - and since the Kyoto protocol came into effect on February 16, 2005 - the Kyoto Agreement has cost 80 billion dollars for, supposedly, a prevention of warming by 0.0008 deg C... To prevent a 1 deg C increase it will cost some 100 trillion dollars . One can measure this wasteful capital expenditure by the 16 billion that was needed to shore up New Orleans and the Mississippi delta from a stage 5 hurricane like Katrina, or by the paltry 3 billion that the US spends annually in orthodox research on alternative energy (reduced, in essence, to solar cells and wind turbines) . 'Global warming' is a clearcut example of the central role acquired by antiproduction in global capitalism. "
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POPSDenier is the new heretic. When an ignorant moron takes to calling someone a denier they are showing they cannot deal in the real world of facts and science. More typical foolishness of the LIARS that fall for such lunacy. I call them liars because they cannot make a case. They do not discuss the merits of the science and usually display they have no clue what they are talking about. They call Bush a liar because of perhaps faulty intelligence. However, on the global warming issue the facts are clear.
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