We have a perfect example of life on earth. This life, made up of DNA, has a physical existance due to molecules and structures which compose it. But, is physical existance a pre-requiste of life? Can life exist as information only with no phyiscal basis...
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Weird (but killer) uses of human tongue…
What can be exciting uses of human tongue: 1. Licking ice-cream 2. Having chocolate 3. Routing information from camera to brain (huh?)
Yes, researchers have developed a device, appropriately, called "Brain Port". It uses tongue to tra...
Self-Aware rover in Mars may cheat humans..
First of all check out the news story at nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/060313-11.html
Do you smell something fishy here? Well, I certainly do. The NASA people are planning to let the rovers decide which images are interesting...
Putting Man on the Moon….
Perhaps the biggest achievement of man ever was putting man on the moon. I am not talking about the event itself but the abstract idea of the ability of a thinking machine (man) to surprise his future (us) to the grandest extent possible.
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The Paradox of Intelligence
Yesterday, I was thinking that almost all approaches to Artificial Intelligence attempt to silumate parallelization. Be it neural networks, Genetic Algorithms, Searching methods, etc. All attempt to simulate techniques which depend upon parallelization....
Ant School: The First Formal Classroom Found in Nature
Hey,
Just like we teach people how do thigs by demostrations, in the same way ants teach them. I wonder if they have sufficent intelligence/complexity to understand and teach how to find food. But, indeed researchers have found that ants teach eac...
Geniuses are Just Like Us
I always knew that.. The reseach just confirmed my belief that I may also be a genius 🙂 See: http://www.livescience.com/history/060111_genius_like_us.html ...
The Future of Human Evolution
What is the future of human evolution? Where are humans headed towards?
According to [URL=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7103668/print/1/displaymode/1098/]this article[/URL], There are few likely scenarios: 1. Humans divide into two different spec...
Is this life?
We are quite close in creating the first "protocell". Protocell refers to an artificially synthesised cell which has bare minimums. The basic motivation behind creating artificial living systems is that the people who are doing this believe that what w...
What is your most dangerous idea?
The most fascinating online magazine EDGE has released the new year edition. It poses the grand question "What is your most dangerous idea?" to 199 people all of whom world's great scientists. Last year it posed an equally thought provoking question o...