Maze A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. The pathways and walls in a maze are fixed, and puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are categorised as tour puzzles. The Cretan labyrinth is the oldest known maze.[1] Technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth, which has a single through-route with twists and turns but without branches, and is not designed to be as difficult to navigate. Maze construction[edit] A small maze with one entrance and one exit Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges, turf, corn stalks, hay bales, books, paving stones of contrasting colors or designs, and brick,[3] or in fields of crops such as corn or, indeed, maize. Generating mazes[edit] Maze generation is the act of designing the layout of passages and walls within a maze. There are two main mechanisms used to generate mazes. Solving mazes[edit] Mazes in psychology experiments[edit] Block maze
Earthfiles.com Headline News Home - NAVIbots Lovotics, the new science of human-robot love By harnessing a new sphere of science called “lovotics”, Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, believes it is possible to engineer love between humans and robots. Across 11 research papers, Samani has outlined — and begun to develop — an extremely complex artificial intelligence that simulates psychological and biological systems behind human love. To do this, Samani’s robots are equipped with artificial versions of the human “love” hormones — Oxytocin, Dopamine, Seratonin, and Endorphin — that can increase or decrease, depending on their state of love. On a psychological level, by using MRI scans of human brains to mirror the psychology of love, the robots are also equipped with an artificial intelligence that tracks their “affective state”; their level of affection for their human lover. Read more at Technology Review
Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! 25 (Free) 3D Modeling Applications You Should Not Miss 3D-modeling tools are instrumental in transforming individual concepts into stunning models and prototypes across various sectors. Whether you’re a novice enthusiast or a seasoned professional, these tools offer the flexibility to create and modify models from scratch. They are widely used in industries like film, animation, gaming, architecture, and interior design, making 3D models essential components of various projects. Finding the ideal modeling software can be challenging due to the diverse features and functionalities they offer. To assist you in making an informed choice, here’s a compilation of 20 3D-modeling software suitable for both personal and professional use. 35 Sites to Download Free STL Models for 3D Printers 35 Sites to Download Free STL Models for 3D Printers Free STL models that you can download and print 3D models. Wings 3D Wings 3D is a sophisticated sub-division modeler equipped with an extensive range of modeling tools. Supported Platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux
The Limits of Intelligence Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish Nobel-winning biologist who mapped the neural anatomy of insects in the decades before World War I, likened the minute circuitry of their vision-processing neurons to an exquisite pocket watch. He likened that of mammals, by comparison, to a hollow-chested grandfather clock. Indeed, it is humbling to think that a honeybee, with its milligram-size brain, can perform tasks such as navigating mazes and landscapes on a par with mammals. At the other extreme, an elephant, with its five-million-fold larger brain, suffers the inefficiencies of a sprawling Mesopotamian empire. We humans may not occupy the dimensional extremes of elephants or honeybees, but what few people realize is that the laws of physics place tough constraints on our mental faculties as well. Do the laws of thermodynamics, then, impose a limit on neuron-based intelligence, one that applies universally, whether in birds, primates, porpoises or praying mantises? It is a momentous insight.
Ghost Theory | Paranormal, Ghosts, Cryptids and more Brain-like computing a step closer to reality The development of 'brain-like' computers has taken a major step forward today with the publication of research led by the University of Exeter. Published in the journal Advanced Materials and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the study involved the first ever demonstration of simultaneous information processing and storage using phase-change materials. This new technique could revolutionise computing by making computers faster and more energy-efficient, as well as making them more closely resemble biological systems. Computers currently deal with processing and memory separately, resulting in a speed and power 'bottleneck' caused by the need to continually move data around. This is totally unlike anything in biology, for example in human brains, where no real distinction is made between memory and computation. Their study demonstrates conclusively that phase-change materials can store and process information simultaneously.
Anomaly Archives eNews – September 2013 | Anomaly Archives Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) ANOMALY ARCHIVES eNEWSLETTER – September 2013 Greetings fellow Anomalists! The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings (usually) on the Fourth Saturday of each month. Our next meeting is Saturday, October 26th. 12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302,Austin, Texas 78759 Please make plans to attend next month’s Anomaly Archives Meeting at the SAI – Anomaly Archives / INACS “Mind Quarters” … we look forward to meeting and talking with all of you! – SMiles Lewis Founder & Presidentwww.AnomalyArchives.org UpComing AusTex Events Anomaly Archives September 28th, 2013 Meeting Review On Saturday, September 28th, nearly a dozen Anomalists met at the Anomaly Archives lending library. Roswell UFO Museum / Newspaper Collage Horse art-installation Central Tenets of Contactology including UFOlogy, Cryptozoology, and Parapsychology: Contact with various conscious aspects of an “Alien Other” What can be done about these phenomena and issues related to them: UFOlogy or Roswellogy? - Networking
Human speech recognition pathway identified Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain needs to identify sounds such as speech — and discovered that they are the same as ones identified in non-human primates. In the June 22 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers say their discovery — made possible with the help of 13 human volunteers who spent time in a functional MRI machine — could potentially offer important insights into what can go wrong when someone has difficulty speaking, which involves hearing voice-generated sounds, or understanding the speech of others. But more than that, the findings help shed light on the complex, and extraordinarily elegant, workings of the "auditory" human brain, says Josef Rauschecker, PhD, a professor in the departments of physiology/ biophysics and neuroscience and a member of the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences at GUMC.
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