Kevin's Watch

peter wrote:Only kidding - good on em! Hope some interesting stuff comes out of it.

Cord Hurn wrote:

Skyweir wrote:https://neurobanter.com/2017/04/19/evid ... s-sort-of/

This is fascinating .. I dont understand it all, so if anyone has a specific interest in counsciousness and numerology please translate and interpret.

I gather that one of the findings or implications is that similar neural activity was detected in waking brains as in dreaming brains .. REM sleep .. in fact the suggestion might be that brain activity is higher.

In the link provided by Skyweir was wrote:Overall, our study adds to a growing body of work - much of which has been led by Carhart-Harris and colleagues - that is now revealing the brain-basis of the psychedelic state. Our data show that a simple measure of neuronal signal diversity places the psychedelic state 'above' the normal waking state, in comparison to the lower diversity found in sleep and anesthesia. Taking this work forward stands to do much more than enhance our understanding of psychedelics. It may help expose how, why - and for whom - psychedelics may help alleviate the appalling suffering of psychiatric disorders like depression. And in the end, it may help us figure out how our normal everyday conscious experiences of the world, and the self, come to be.
After all, everything we experience - even when stone cold sober - is just a kind of 'controlled hallucination.' Our perceptions are just the brain's "best guess" of what's going on, reined in by sensory signals.

It's far from conclusive, as is often the case with ongoing research. It seems to add further likelihood to enhanced consciousness being a result of LSD use (despite this, I've never wanted to try the stuff and still don't). I wish them success in being able to use their research to treat people suffering from depression. That's about all I can think to say on this, Sky.

samrw3 wrote:Near real-time translators or marketed as "Star Trek" type translators pretty cool stuff:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/star- ... ocid=ientp

I'm Murrin wrote:I wonder how that stuff works when it's between languages with significantly different sentence structure, like German putting the verb at the end.

Fist and Faith wrote:https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/
Way too cool!

Vraith wrote:...or put it on your face with your make-up---and infect computers that look at it/take pictures of it.

A lost page of Albert Einstein's handwritten notes and equations has turned up. The page, part of the appendix to a scientific journal article published in 1930, shows one of Einstein's attempts to unite all the fundamental forces into a single set of equations, or a "theory of everything." (Credit: Copyright The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)


A never-before-seen page of Albert Einstein's handwritten notes and equations on the unified theory of physics has been discovered in an archive of Einstein manuscripts recently acquired by The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

According to a statement from the university, the newfound page was part of an appendix that Einstein included with a scientific article on unified field theory -- the long-sought theory that unites all the fundamental forces of nature into a single set of equations -- which Einstein submitted to the Prussian Academy of Science in 1930.

Previously thought lost, the page of elegantly written notes has never been seen or studied since its original submission, according to the statement. [8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life]

The long-lost note turned up in an archive of 110 manuscript pages that The Hebrew University recently acquired from a private collector in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Many of the new pages have never been displayed to the public before, including 84 pages of mathematical calculations written from 1944-48, plus a number of letters to Einstein's friends and family.

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we have artificially created a state that evolves in direct opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time