Everything posted by Genady
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Strange Things
I remember one morning on my way to work in A train shortly before my station a voice of a friend of mine, Alex, suddenly popped in my head. When I got out of the subway, I found myself in the middle of a mess... It was about 9 o'clock on September 11, 2001. The station was WTC. I looked up and saw a huge hole in the upper part of the North Tower. Alex's office was on the 97th floor... I was sure he was dead, and his voice kept playing in my head until I finally got home that day and found Alex's message on my answering machine. He missed his train that day and was late to work. I don't think I would remember about his voice popping in my head if not for these circumstances.
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Not so good news for science
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers (stanforddaily.com)
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
How do you know this? Not necessarily, but it is not a brain function. What do you mean by it? Why does the brain need to recover itself? What do you call "recover" in this context?
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Strange Things
I'd hypothesize that "senses" about that person randomly popped into your head thousands of times before and were forgotten because of having no handle to remember them. But this time the memory of the "sense" is accessible because of the dramatic connection to the real-life event.
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Neutral simultaneity for two frames.
I am sorry, I don't understand your idea of a relation between these numbers and a triangle or an arc.
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Online science forums
For the last two days I've been "studying" recent and ongoing discussions in half a dozen different science forums. They differ to some degree and the choice depends on personal preferences. I'll stick with this one.
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How to induce viviparism ? [botany]
Exactly. This is what I do and never have any issues. Grape/ cherry/ snack tomatoes.
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How to induce viviparism ? [botany]
Depends on the kind of tomato, perhaps.
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Neutral simultaneity for two frames.
I don't know what you mean here, i.e., what should be the same. The body A has velocity v in S, and velocity v'=0 in S'. The body B has velocity u=v/(4-3v2/c2)1/2 in S, and velocity u'=(u-v)/(1-uv/c2) in S'.
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Neutral simultaneity for two frames.
The origin of S moves with the speed -v in S'. The body B moves with the speed u in S. Use relativistic velocity addition formula: the speed of B in S' = (u-v)/(1-uv/c2).
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Neutral simultaneity for two frames.
There is only one frame in your example. What you've calculated is, that if body A moves with velocity v and body B of the same mass moves with velocity u=v/(4-3v2/c2)1/2, then momentum of the body B equals half of momentum of the body A. All in the same one frame.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
No, if it turns out to be a quantum machine, nothing can recover its state without destroying it. Yes, there are. Your nanomachines or whatever cannot measure positions and momenta of these particles and thus cannot recreate them.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
No, I was not. See my response here:
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Online science forums
Thank you. I will check it.
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Online science forums
Would you point to these?
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Life is not a state, it is rather a sequence of states. If there is only a finite number of states, the states will necessarily repeat, but the sequence will not. A sequence of a finite number of states can be infinitely long without repeating itself.
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Online science forums
From repeated hints in posts, I understand that many members of SFN also participate in other online science forums. What's the point of it? Do mostly the same people discuss mostly the same questions on different websites? What would be a reason for me to do so?
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AI and the actors strike
In the related news, AI resurrection of Brazilian singer for car ad sparks joy and ethical worries | Brazil | The Guardian
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Stone-age men thought that how fast you run is limited only by your abilities. We know now that it is limited by the speed of light.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Now it is YOU who is stuck in 2023, it seems. ... and other important components. For a simple example, myelin sheath structures control rate of propagation of signals in neurons. Different rates cause differences in arrival times of the signals. This affects the spikes. Etc. Lesser? This is how drugs affect brain. They don't modify neuron connections. The effects are dramatic, though. Paraphrasing YOU just a bit,
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
me too
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
In the case of quantum computers, it does.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Neurons and their connections are not the whole story of the brain. Quantum computers are macro, too. They operate on quantum, nevertheless.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
It is definitely more than this. Much more. Quantum Mechanics' laws are.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
In quantum computers, only one impulse travels at a time. It does not make them any "less" quantum. "Quantum" does not mean "fuzzy". It means that elementary units are quantum states, and operations are unitary.