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On 4/4/2019 at 6:48 PM, Prometheus said:

What's people's opinions on this: can AI become sentient?

Absolutely. It's only a matter of how we digitally imitate the brain sufficiently.

But let's not forget, that humans are not the only sentient beings on Earth. Less than human could be enough.

I see it like this, although it is simplified and not technically totally accurate:

There are 3 realms: Micro (QM), Normal (Earth) and Macro (Universe).

They all have their own unique set of rules called: Quantum mechanics, Newtonian and Relativity.

Obviously they can't be strictly separated like that. They do mix sometimes. But in the grand scheme they rule their domains.

18 minutes ago, beecee said:

Not really......

16 minutes ago, Strange said:

I suppose it is possible (but probably unlikely) that a star could collide with a black hole head on. I guess that would be pretty quick!

Thanks for the answers!

A more speculative one: Could a head on hit cause FRB's ?

Khan academy maybe?

4 minutes ago, beecee said:

Any Sun would not be absorbed into a BH per se. A BH is not an all purpose vacuum cleaner. Any star that approaches a BH would actually start orbiting it, and the stellar matter would be sucked off into an accretion disk, which the spirals into the BH. Accretion disks themselves are orbiting at relativistic speeds and very hot as a result.

Yes, but isn't that relative?
From the EH perspective it probably happens in a jiffy, right?

I have a new question that fits this thread, so instead of making a new thread, I thought you'd prefer me using this. If I am mistaken, let me know, and I'll make a new,

Here goes:

When a sun is absorbed into a black hole, where does all the heat go?

Could Hawking radiation be that heat escaping?

In this computer simulated model of our universe, the shape seems almost cubic

Just now, swansont said:

No black hole needed. I’m traveling forward in time right now, as are you.

No, that's called living. But I suppose living is time travelling too. Sorta.

I'm curious, unless it's a very long video...

The teleportation we see on Star Trek is "dissolving matter and recreating it". I can't see how that could ever be ethically responsible in any way. But then again, in 500 years we are old school. Maybe!

Travelling forward in time is easy peasy. All you need is a black hole.

Travelling backwards violates every rule that exists, because it tries to separate time and space (you are part of space). No can't do. Forget it.

1 minute ago, swansont said:

On the contrary, I don’t know what you mean. Did you mean wave-particle duality?

Yes.

9 minutes ago, swansont said:

If duality means wave-particle duality, it is not wave function collapse.

Do you really need to make this about a mathematical property, when you know exactly what I mean?

I've heard some arguments that duality (the collapse of the wave function itself) is caused by quantum decoherence.

Do any of you agree with that? And if you do, can you explain how decoherence collapses the wave?

AI is at the cradle stage currently.
If its advancement keeps going, there is no limit to its intelligence. Unless of course intelligence has an upper limit in itself. Like C has.

Is there an upper limit of intelligence?

39 minutes ago, LittleBoPeep said:

Very much so.

It is not anywhere in pi it is the first 15 decimals not in any other base but base ten.

This is a place of science and facts. Not of numerologic speculations, which is based in superstition.

Would it be technically possible to make a ternary (3 bit) computer? Instead of the basic "on or off" in our standard binary ones.

I imagine this might be done by having one extra state added beside on and off.
We could call it dormant or standby mode. Dormant/standby would then be neither fully on or fully off.

Edit: I would also imagine that such a computer would be incapable of communicating with binary computers, and be of less use, due to its isolation.

Edit #2: I see now that I have been searching with the wrong keywords, and that such computers have been made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Sorry for the inconvenience. Mods may terminate this, if deemed redundant.

11 minutes ago, studiot said:

Perhaps you would like to expand on this as things are really more complicated.

10 minutes ago, swansont said:

This is quite wrong.

I know the behavior of electricity, but the question was very specific, and I gave an equally specific answer.
I'd rather elaborate gradually than give a long lecture.

1 minute ago, swansont said:

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Moderator Note

Which have to be based on evidence and/or models, and you went out of your way to point out yours was not evidence-based.

 

Duly noted!

4 minutes ago, swansont said:

 

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Moderator Note

This is posted in a science section, so please keep personal opinions out of it.

 

Understood.

But we're debating, and debates - even scientific ones - are always colored by points of view.

13 minutes ago, SerengetiLion said:

Oh my, I feel the same exact way, all life just frigging happened, period, with no help or intervention from a being that had any kind of process to make a plan with any desired outcome.

I just expressed my own personal - non evidence based - opinion. But please note that I am not a theist!

2 minutes ago, SerengetiLion said:

Surely so! Do you have any education on the subject?

No formal education, no. But I spend most of my sparetime studying many of the branches of science online.

5 minutes ago, SerengetiLion said:

Ponder that for a minute. To me that would explain...

It's just standard biology and evolution. Nothing new or mind-blowing about it.

18 minutes ago, DARK0717 said:

If electricity likes to shoot out of pointed things or the sharp edges of things, then what shape or geometrical figure does it like to go into?

Electricity does not care about the shape, only about the path of least resistance.