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Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already ex... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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"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
Two Astrophysicists Debate Free Will
youtube.comAccording to modern physics, it is, at base, quantum perturbations, called electrons and photons, that exhibit properties given names such as mass and spin.
Mark, Vernon • Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps
Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
“We can pull atoms apart, peer back at the first light and predict the end of the universe with just a handful of equations, squiggly lines and arcane symbols that normal people cannot fathom, even though they hold sway over their lives. But it's not just regular folks; even scientists no longer comprehend the world. Take quantum mechanics, the cro
... See moreThe most fundamental components of our so-called physical world are both waves (energy) and particles (physical matter), depending on the mind of the observer