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Can We Know the Universe The following excerpt was publ.docxhacksoni
Can We Know the Universe?
The following excerpt was published in Broca's Brain (1979).
by Carl Sagan
"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only
surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities
there may be, to penetrate the connections of things—from subnuclear
particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living
organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a
whole. Our intuition is by no means an infallible guide. Our
perceptions may be distorted by training and prejudice or merely
because of the limitations of our sense organs, which, of course,
perceive directly but a small fraction of the phenomena of the world.
Even so straightforward a question as whether in the absence of friction
a pound of lead falls faster than a gram of fluff was answered
incorrectly by Aristotle and almost everyone else before the time of
Galileo. Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge
old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.
Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage—at the very least the
courage to question the conventional wisdom.
Beyond this the main trick of science is to really think of something: the
shape of clouds and their occasional sharp bottom edges at the same
altitude everywhere in the sky; the formation of the dewdrop on a leaf;
the origin of a name or a word—Shakespeare, say, or "philanthropic";
the reason for human social customs—the incest taboo, for example;
how it is that a lens in sunlight can make paper burn; how a "walking
stick" got to look so much like a twig; why the Moon seems to follow us
as we walk; what prevents us from digging a hole down to the center of
the Earth; what the definition is of "down" on a spherical Earth; how it
is possible for the body to convert yesterday's lunch into today's muscle
and sinew; or how far is up—does the universe go on forever, or if it
does not, is there any meaning to the question of what lies on the other
side? Some of these questions are pretty easy. Others, especially the
last, are mysteries to which no one even today knows the answer. They
are natural questions to ask. Every culture has posed such questions in
one way or another. Almost always the proposed answers are in the
nature of "Just So Stories," attempted explanations divorced from
experiment, or even from careful comparative observations.
But the scientific cast of mind examines the world critically as if many
alternative worlds might exist, as if other things might be here which
are not. Then we are forced to ask why what we see is present and not
something else. Why are the Sun and the Moon and the planets
spheres? Why not pyramids, or cubes, or dodecahedra? Why not
irregular, jumbly shapes? Why so sym.
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Can We Know the Universe The following excerpt was publ.docxhacksoni
Can We Know the Universe?
The following excerpt was published in Broca's Brain (1979).
by Carl Sagan
"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only
surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities
there may be, to penetrate the connections of things—from subnuclear
particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living
organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a
whole. Our intuition is by no means an infallible guide. Our
perceptions may be distorted by training and prejudice or merely
because of the limitations of our sense organs, which, of course,
perceive directly but a small fraction of the phenomena of the world.
Even so straightforward a question as whether in the absence of friction
a pound of lead falls faster than a gram of fluff was answered
incorrectly by Aristotle and almost everyone else before the time of
Galileo. Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge
old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.
Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage—at the very least the
courage to question the conventional wisdom.
Beyond this the main trick of science is to really think of something: the
shape of clouds and their occasional sharp bottom edges at the same
altitude everywhere in the sky; the formation of the dewdrop on a leaf;
the origin of a name or a word—Shakespeare, say, or "philanthropic";
the reason for human social customs—the incest taboo, for example;
how it is that a lens in sunlight can make paper burn; how a "walking
stick" got to look so much like a twig; why the Moon seems to follow us
as we walk; what prevents us from digging a hole down to the center of
the Earth; what the definition is of "down" on a spherical Earth; how it
is possible for the body to convert yesterday's lunch into today's muscle
and sinew; or how far is up—does the universe go on forever, or if it
does not, is there any meaning to the question of what lies on the other
side? Some of these questions are pretty easy. Others, especially the
last, are mysteries to which no one even today knows the answer. They
are natural questions to ask. Every culture has posed such questions in
one way or another. Almost always the proposed answers are in the
nature of "Just So Stories," attempted explanations divorced from
experiment, or even from careful comparative observations.
But the scientific cast of mind examines the world critically as if many
alternative worlds might exist, as if other things might be here which
are not. Then we are forced to ask why what we see is present and not
something else. Why are the Sun and the Moon and the planets
spheres? Why not pyramids, or cubes, or dodecahedra? Why not
irregular, jumbly shapes? Why so sym.
Before we can begin to consider the evolution of consciousness, we have to ask when consciousness first arose. Are human beings alone conscious, or are other creatures also conscious? Is an animal such as a dog, for example, conscious?
Dogs may not be aware of many of the things we are aware of. They are not conscious of much beyond their immediate world, the world defined by the span of their senses. They know nothing of lands beyond the oceans, or the space beyond the earth. Nor can dogs be aware of much beyond the present time. They know nothing of the course of history, or where it might be headed. They are not aware of their inevitable death in the same way that we are. They do not think to themselves in words, and they probably do not reason as we do. And they do not seem to have the self-awareness that we do; they certainly do not get caught up in concern for their own self-image, with all the strange behaviors that engenders. But this does not mean that dogs have no awareness at all.
One of the amazing complexities of life is an organism’s ability
to recognize and react to its surroundings. This trait of awareness exists in the smallest single-celled organism as well as in the most complex of creatures — that is, Homo sapiens, like you and me.
Register to explore the whole course here: https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive?WT.mc_id=Slideshare12202017
A Canadian neuroscientist, Philip Low (Stanford / MIT) and 25 more researchers can lead many people and organizations in a very embarrassing situation, as they are about to ...
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Contents:
1. What Makes Humans Different From Other Animals?
2. Animal Intelligence And The Evolution of the Human Mind.
3.What Does it Mean to be Human?
Before we can begin to consider the evolution of consciousness, we have to ask when consciousness first arose. Are human beings alone conscious, or are other creatures also conscious? Is an animal such as a dog, for example, conscious?
Dogs may not be aware of many of the things we are aware of. They are not conscious of much beyond their immediate world, the world defined by the span of their senses. They know nothing of lands beyond the oceans, or the space beyond the earth. Nor can dogs be aware of much beyond the present time. They know nothing of the course of history, or where it might be headed. They are not aware of their inevitable death in the same way that we are. They do not think to themselves in words, and they probably do not reason as we do. And they do not seem to have the self-awareness that we do; they certainly do not get caught up in concern for their own self-image, with all the strange behaviors that engenders. But this does not mean that dogs have no awareness at all.
One of the amazing complexities of life is an organism’s ability
to recognize and react to its surroundings. This trait of awareness exists in the smallest single-celled organism as well as in the most complex of creatures — that is, Homo sapiens, like you and me.
Register to explore the whole course here: https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive?WT.mc_id=Slideshare12202017
A Canadian neuroscientist, Philip Low (Stanford / MIT) and 25 more researchers can lead many people and organizations in a very embarrassing situation, as they are about to ...
How Does the Brain Work?
How The Brain Works Essay
The Human Brain Essay
The Structure Of The Brain Essay
How Does the Brain Work? Essay
Brain Stem Essay
Essay The Aging Brain
Meditation and the Brain Essay
The Brain Essay
The Human Brain Essay
The Power of the Human Brain Essays
Essay about the human brain
Essay about Drugs Affect on Brain
Memory and the Brain Essay
Contents:
1. What Makes Humans Different From Other Animals?
2. Animal Intelligence And The Evolution of the Human Mind.
3.What Does it Mean to be Human?
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Salas, V. (2024) "John of St. Thomas (Poinsot) on the Science of Sacred Theol...Studia Poinsotiana
I Introduction
II Subalternation and Theology
III Theology and Dogmatic Declarations
IV The Mixed Principles of Theology
V Virtual Revelation: The Unity of Theology
VI Theology as a Natural Science
VII Theology’s Certitude
VIII Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
All the contents are fully attributable to the author, Doctor Victor Salas. Should you wish to get this text republished, get in touch with the author or the editorial committee of the Studia Poinsotiana. Insofar as possible, we will be happy to broker your contact.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
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Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
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of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
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Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
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1. WHAT IF
WE COULD
USE 100%
BRAIN
In science we only know less than 1 dust
particle its unexplored ocean
WRITEN BY KAPIL KUNVAT
2. What if we could use 100% of our brain
Life was given to us a billion years ago If life starts approximately a billion
years ago, we will have to wait 400,000 years to see the aberration of the first
nerve cells. This is where life as we know it begins. Brains in formation of only a
few milligrams.It's not possible to determine any sign of intelligence yet. It acts
more as a reflex. One neuron, you're alive. Two neurons, you're moving,and with
movement,interesting begin to happen.Animal life on Earth goesback millions of
years.Yet most species only use 3 to5% of its cerebral capacity.But it isn't until
wereached human beingsat the topof the animal chainthat we finally see a
species use more of its cerebral capacity. 10% may not seem like much, but it's a
lot if you look at all we've done with it Now let's discuss a special case.The only
living being that uses its brain better than us.The dolphin.It is estimated that
this incredible animal uses up to 20% of its cerebral capacity. In particular, this
allows it to have an echolocation system that is more efficient than any sonar
invented by mankind. But the dolphin did not invent the sonar, it developed it
naturally.And this is the crucial part of our philosophical reflection we have
today.Can we therefore conclude that humans are concerned more with having
than being? For primitive beings like us, life seems to have only one single
purpose,gaining time.And it is going through time that seems to be also the only
real purpose of each of the cells in our bodies To achieve that aim, the mass of
the cells that make up earthworms and human beings has only two solutions.Be
immortal or to reproduce. If its habitat is not sufficiently favourable or
3. nurturing... The cell will choose immortality. In other words, self-sufficiency and
self- management. On the other hand, if the habitat is favorable.They will
choose to reproduce. That way, when they die, they hand down essential
information and knowledge to the next cell, which hands it down to the next cell
and so on.Thus, knowledge and learning are handed down through time.Let's
imagine for a few moments what our life would be like if we could access, let's
say, 20% of our brain's capacity. This first stage would give us access to And
control of our own body. For the moment, it's just hypothesis, I confess. But if
you think about it, it's troubling to realize that the Greeks, the Egyptians and
the Indians had notion of cells centuries before the invention of the microscope.
And what to say about Darwin, whom everybody took for a fool when he put
forth his theory of evolution. It's up to us to push the rules and laws and go
from evolution to revolution. 100 billion neurons per human, of which only 15%
are activated. There are more connections In the human body than there are
stars in the galaxy. We possess a gigantic network of information to which we
have almost no access. the next stage would probably be control of other people.
But for that, we would need to access at least 40% of our brain's capacity.
After control of ourselves and others would come control of matter. But now
we're entering into the realm of science fiction and we don't know any more
than a dog who watches the moon.you can imagine How mystery is our body is
that Pregnant women manufacture C.P.H.4 in the sixth week of pregnancy in tiny
quantities. For a baby, it packs the power of an atomic bomb. It's what gives the
fetus the necessary energy to form all the bones in its body. Once the brain
4. reaches 20%, it opens up and expands the rest. There are no more obstacles.
They fall away like dominoes. You can colonize your own brain. if you think about
the very nature of life, I mean, from the very beginning, the development of the
first cell that divided into two cells.The sole purpose of life has been to pass on
what was learned. There was no higher purpose. So if you're asking me what to
do with all this knowledge you're accumulating, l'd say pass it on. Just like any
simple cell going through time. Time.Electrical impulses. Every cell knows and
talks to every other cell. They exchange a thousand bits of information between
them per second. Cells group together, forming a giant web of communication,
which in turn forms matter. Cells get together, take on one form, deform,
reform. Makes no difference, it's all the same. Humans consider themselves
unique, so they've rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness.
"One" is their unit of measure. But it's not. All social systems we've put into
place are a mere sketch. One plus one equals two. That's all we've learned. But
one plus one has never equaled two, There are, in fact, no numbers and no
letters. We've codified our existence to bring it down to human size to make it
comprehensible. We've created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable
scale. But if humans are not the unit of measure and the world isn't governed by
mathematical laws, what governs all that? Film a car speeding down a road.
Speed up the image infinitely and the car disappears. So what proof do we have
of its existence? Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true
unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter. Without time, we
don't exist. Time is unity. you won't survive. Some cells inside me will fight and
5. defend their integrity till the very end. In order to attain the last few percent,
I have to force it to crack the cells open to their nucleus.
But all of this what i have learned is just a theory until we could get to know why
we existed.
FROME KAPIL KUNVAT
STUDENT