Nobody knows. Neither anyone would ever know. We are the unfortunate (or perhaps fortunate) consequence of an accident called life. But why should we bear the trouble which we have not chosen. ...
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End of Science?
John Horgan argues that the [URL=http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-06/cover/?page=1]pure science has ended[/URL]. Full Stop.
I don't understand how one can call the end of pure science when we have huge gaps in basic knowledge such as the [i]or...
God and Evolution
I don't know if they are mutually incompatible, but Richard Dawkins certainly thinks so. See [URL]http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html[/URL] for an excellent interview of his on the same topic.
PS: I am a (Atheist...
Livescience.com Special Report on Immortality
Read these two articles:
1. [URL=http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060522_immortality_social.html]Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives[/URL] 2. [URL=http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060523_immortality_moral.html]Th...
Philosophy Questions
A guy named Alejandro Barreto has emailed me asking me few of the [i]grander[/i] philosophical questions. They were quite interesting and challenging. I found it very enjoyable to express my views to someone who values it. Below, I am reproducing my repl...
Should Life neccessarily be tangible?
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...
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.
Zee Stud...
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....