How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
Yasemin Saplakogluquantamagazine.org
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Tim Baynetheconversation.com
"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
Over the past several years, Roger Penrose, a noted physicist and philosopher, has suggested that fine structures in the neurons called tubules perform an exotic form of computation called “quantum computing.” Quantum computing is computing using what are called “qu bits” which take on all possible combinations of solutions simultaneously. Just bec... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
On the contrary, mathematics molds itself into a preexisting, innate representation of numerical quantities, which it then extends and refines.