Amit Goswami: The Self-Aware Universe Change or Die Overcoming Bias One Hundred Interesting Mathematical Calculations, Number 7: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal One Hundred Interesting Mathematical Calculations, Number 7 One Hundred Interesting Mathematical Calculations, Number 7: Julius Caesar's Last Breath What's the chance that the breath you just inhaled contains at least one air molecule that was in Julius Caesar's last breath--the one in which he said (according to Shakespeare) " Et tu Brute ? Then die Caesar"? Assume that the more than two thousand years that have passed have been enough time for all the molecules in Caesar's last breath to mix evenly in the atmosphere, and that only a trivial amount of the molecules have leaked out into the oceans or the ground. That gives a chance of 2 x 10 22 /10 44 = 2x 10 -22 that any one particular molecule you breathe in came from Caesar's last breath. [1-2x10 -22 ] [2x10^22] as the probability that none of the molecules in the breath you just inhaled (assuming you are still holding out) came from Julius Caesar's last breath. How to evaluate this? [e [-2x10^(-22)] ] [2x10^(22)]
Future of Humanity Institute - Prize The Future of Humanity Institute and the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology are pleased to announce the winners of the Crucial Considerations for the Future of Humanity Thesis Abstract Competition. From a large number of very high quality entries, the winning entry (receiving £2,000) was: Nick Beckstead (Rutgers University)Global priority setting and existential risk crucial ethical considerations Due to the large number of high-quality entrants, six second prize winners were chosen, each of whom will receive £200. Sebastian Farquhar (Oxford University)Trends in automation and the unemployability problem James Hall (Oxford University)Facing the future progress as technological change George McGowan (Oxford Brookes University)How much (dis)value could future civilisations have G Owen Schaefer (Oxford University)Challenges for moral enhancement a research proposal Aron Vallinder (Lund University)Preferences elicitation, extrapolation and aggregation
"Quantum Physics, Consciousness, Creativity, and Healing" with Amit Goswami (part 1 of 3) | IONS Library Visionary: Amit Goswami Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In this 3-part audio presentation, Dr. With clear definitions he contrasts the quantum principals with traditional scientific beliefs, and then provides examples from research and human experience to demonstrate their veracity. The building blocks to this comprehension are straightforward: Everything is comprised of waves of possibility at the subatomic level. In Part 1 Dr. Download as mp3 Publication Date: Length:
Struggling with quantum logic: Q&A with Aaron O’Connell On stage at TED2011, Aaron O’Connell talked about building the largest object ever put into a quantum mechanical state, a vibrating piece of metal (called a mechanical resonator) — work he completed in the lab of professors John Martinis and Andrew Cleland, and working closely with Max Hofheinz and many others. Now he’s interested in starting a science company with the potential for dramatic impact on the world. The TED Blog talked with him about his research, the nature of physics, and the differences between academia and the corporate world. You made an object that’s an enormous breakthrough in physics, and then you have a huge challenge to try to explain to non-physicists why it’s a big deal. Where does that disconnect come from? A lot of the impact of the experiment is that it forces you to change your perception of the world, and in such a way that you need to develop a new logic system. That’s a really tough concept. This is something we have no intuition for. No, actually I don’t.
Exploring openness in radical video: Jason Silva at TEDGlobal2012 Photo: James Duncan Davidson Jason Silva is a “performance philosopher” driven by the concept of awe. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller and Timothy Leary, his background of film and philosophy has given him the tools to create movie trailers for ideas — what he calls “philosophical shots of espresso.” In terms of his videos, their aesthetics, music and presentation all matter — because Jason believes we want to be transformed.
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