It's interesting to me that so little attention is paid to the origins and properties of order. More fundamental than gravity or electromagnetism, order is a principle so subtle and so powerful that it contains all principles...or else it contains nothing. Order is the membership card for inclusion into the universe. Dreams are unreal to us not ( Read more... )

Everybody go see Walk Hard.

braince in our phonce and foans in our branesGoogle Wireless And The End of The Telephone
YouTube of dood (Jeff Hawkins) talking about brain theory. Intelligence is prediction yo. (which fits in with my theory of consciousness that the fundamental unit of consciousness is the question.)

"Instead of craving blood like Dracula, Chocula craves Count Chocula breakfast cereal." - Wikipedia


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Nanosolar's Solar Sheet Wins Pop Sci Award
Another study shows organic ag outpacing conventional
Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos
Hmm, the future stands a chance maybe? I would stick around for a solar-digital-inked tofu hovercraft that gets rid of stupid people.

Evolution is deterministic, not random, biologists conclude from multi-species study

NYT nugget of panpsychism

order, order in the core-techs.

string me no stringz

Of all the unique and improbable facts about
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How about the question as fundamental unit of intelligence? Computers are based on microtransistors - a piece of hardware designed to be rapidly questioned and controlled. That's the thing about a transistor, not only can it be set to a binary value of on or off, but you can query that value without affecting it. Operating systems too typically ( Read more... )

Can two people even agree on what is the fundamental unit of psyche ( Read more... )