PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
We haven't talked about the socialization of intelligence very much. We talked a lot about intelligence as being individual human things, yet the thing that distinguishes humans from other animals is our possession of human language, which allows us both to think and communicate in ways that other animals don’t appear to be able to. This gives us a cooperative power as a global organism, which is causing lots of trouble. If I were another species, I’d be pretty damn pissed off right now. What makes human beings effective is not their individual intelligences, though there are many very intelligent people in this room, but their communal intelligence.See: Communal Intelligence
"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."See: Edge Cast
The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases. MAlt’s objective is to put us back in control using open software. It is now time to present more widely this project and to explain how it will shape our computing environment.
Smolin is a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Canada and adjunct professor at the University of
Waterloo. He is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. In the
past decades, Smolin’s interests have drifted to the role of time in the laws of nature and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
This is the complete record of Bernardo's defense of his second Ph.D., on philosophy of mind and ontology, at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherland's best classical university in 2018), plus the degree granting ceremony. It was recorded on 29 April 2019, in the 'Aula' of Radboud University. The defense was held in English. For the thesis, click on: https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3 The thesis is a companion volume to Bernardo's book 'The Idea of the World':
"Secrets of Cymatics" is an inspirational presentation by acoustic-physics researcher, John Stuart Reid, filmed at the Water Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2016, on the physics, chemistry and biology of water. The title of the talk was originally "The Holographic Properties of Water" and focuses on the CymaScope instrument and the emergent science of Cymatics, including significant implications for medical science and positing the first two laws of Cymatics.
