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we are pleased to announce the cosmos annual meeting will be held thursday june 28th to saturday june 30th in copenhagen denmark in the auditorium of the geological museum. registration is now open and both cosmos and non - cosmos members are welcome to attend !
join a cosmos tour to explore the americas, canada or alaska, asia, europe, the british isles or south america. cosmos has been showing travellers the world for over 50 years .
the weather is heating up, and new energy flows as the planets shift in the cosmos .
but recently, the scientists seem to have begun to master the science and art of cosmos creation .
jacinta presents the cosmos public outreach and communication initiatives at the iau' s cap2018 conference in fukuoka, japan .
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rest - frame optical emission lines in far - infrared - selected galaxies at z < 1. 7 from the fmos - cosmos survey
this year' s cosmos meeting will be june 28 - 30 in copenhagen denmark in the auditorium of the geological museum. reg… urltoken
as kurlansky points out, milk is even written into the story of our cosmos –our galaxy, after all, is called the milky way .
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swirling gold spirals, faces morphing into garlands, bodies morphing into trees, the cosmos, greek mythology, munch, castles in the air. .
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on 24 - 28th march 2018 the international astronomical union (iau) held its huge communicating astronomy with the public (cap2018) conference in fukuoka, japan. cosmos was represented at the meeting by team member jacinta delhaize from the university of zagreb, who gave a talk on the various public outreach and communications initiatives of cosmos .
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in addition to offering shows in the explorers' dome, orion will sail with a viking resident astronomer who will lecture on the mysteries of the cosmos and how humans have explored it .
the human loss of the sense of sacred has been driven by a mechanization of the world that privileges the mundane and the material. yet the earliest surviving history of the human mind reveals a widespread, embodied human faculty for perception of the cosmos and an intimate human relation to the cosmos. this history hints of an origin story that may be partly recovered by sacred relics of human prehistory .
description of the two voyager probes sent for interstellar travel. tyson ends the series by emphasizing sagan' s message on the human condition in the vastness of the cosmos & to encourage viewers to ...
the cosmic evolution survey (cosmos) is an astronomical survey designed to probe the formation and evolution of galaxies as a function of both cosmic time (redshift) and the local galaxy environment. the survey covers a 2 square degree equatorial field with spectroscopy and x - ray to radio imaging by most of the major space - based telescopes and a number of large ground based telescopes. over 2 million galaxies are detected, spanning 75% of the age of the universe. cosmos is led by peter capak and involves more than 200 scientists in a dozen countries. more information on the cosmos team members can be found here .
use cosmos, the city of surrey' s online mapping system, to access information about any property in surrey or get a property report, which you can use to find assessment values, and maps on a property by address. explore over 200 layers of information, annotate your own maps or search for underground infrastructure near your property. you’ll never know what you will find. cosmos now supports all modern browsers .
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stepping away from the virtual realm, we have our wonderful artist - in - residence karel nel, who creates renowned artworks inspired by cosmos research. we also sometimes run public astronomy on tap events at the pub alongside our annual team meetings .
first proposed in 1995, the next generation space telescope, as it was then known, was intended to follow in the footsteps of the hubble space telescope, extending astronomers' reach almost all the way back to the big bang birth of the cosmos .
cosmos often simply means
universe
. but the word is generally used to suggest an orderly or harmonious universe, as it was originally used by pythagoras in the 6th century b. c. thus, a religious mystic may help put us in touch with the cosmos, and so may a physicist. the same is often true of the adjective cosmic: cosmic rays (really particles rather than rays) bombard us from outer space, but cosmic questions come from human attempts to find order in the universe .
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cosmos and history is a journal of natural and social philosophy. it serves those who see philosophy’s vocation in questioning and challenging prevailing assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world, developing new ways of thinking about physical existence, life, humanity and society, so helping to create the future insofar as thought affects the issue .
cosmos, fox’s much - anticipated remake of carl sagan’s classic wonder - of - science series, is drawing attention for an unexpected reason. the middle of the premier episode features a long segment on giordano bruno, an early - modern friar and philosopher who was burned at the stake for his outlandish theological views. bruno’s heresy was partially related to his hypotheses about the universe, some of which were astonishingly correct: that the cosmos is infinite, and that the sun is just another star. his proto - scientific inquiry and his clash with the catholic church made bruno an enlightenment hero, lionized by modern historians and even by figures as celebrated as the german philosopher g. w. f. hegel .
that’s more or less the story that gets told in cosmos. bruno is introduced as “only one man on the whole planet” who suspected that the universe was larger than everyone living in the year 1600 thought. neil degrasse tyson ambles through alleys in the vatican, explaining that there was “no freedom of thought in italy, ” and bruno’s theories brought him “into the clutches of the thought police. ” bruno, according to cosmos, wandered around europe, arguing passionately but fruitlessly for his new explanation of the universe, only to be mocked, impoverished, and eventually imprisoned and executed. catholic authorities are depicted as cartoon ghouls, and introduced with sinister theme music. tyson explains that the church’s modus operandi was to “investigate and torment anyone who voiced views that differed from theirs. ”
the deimos 10k spectroscopic catalog contains 10718 object out to z = 6 in the cosmos field observed through multi - slit spectroscopy with the deep imaging multi - object spectrograph (deimos) on the keck ii telescope. the objects have been selected from a variety of input catalogs based on multi - wavelength observations in the field, and thus have a diverse selection function, which enables the study of the diversity in the galaxy population .
but that chaotic story is worth telling, even when it comes to pop entertainment. it reminds us that history rarely gives us uncomplicated heroes or black - and - white moral choices. it reminds us that even our most impressive rational feats are colored and shaped by our irrational natures, and that our attempts to explain and master the world are always, at some level, an illusion. cosmos is a grand tour of the amazing things we’ve figured out about the world, and it should also be a reminder of how many more remain unfathomable mysteries .
cosmos and history: the journal of natural and social philosophy is a peer - reviewed, open - access journal of natural and social philosophy. it serves those who see philosophy' s vocation in questioning and challenging prevailing assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world, developing new ways of thinking about physical existence, life, humanity and society, so helping to create the future insofar as thought affects the issue. philosophy so conceived is not exclusively identified with the work of professional philosophers, and the journal welcomes contributions from philosophically oriented thinkers from all disciplines .
this thirteen part series is carl sagan' s personal account of the universe and how humans have interpreted it through time. in cosmos, carl sagan takes us on location to places in the world where the most important people and ideas in science and astronomy were born, and to places in outer space where those ideas have revealed the universe to us. carl sagan shares a sense of wonder that is both intelligent and humorous, while occasionally warning us of our capabilities of self - destruction. though cosmos was made during the height of the cold war, it still stands as a reminder of global problems and dangers we still need to resolve. this series has either consciously or unconsciously set the standard for the format of almost every hosted science show or series on television since it was made, and it' s no wonder. carl sagan is a charismatic and sincere authority on the subject matter, and the music score is mostly by vangelis (bladerunner, chariots of fire, 1492) synergy, tangerine dream, vivaldi, and more. the visuals are amazing and remain as relevant as they were on the release date .
what cosmos doesn’t mention is that bruno’s conflict with the catholic church was theological, not scientific, even if it did involve his wild—and occasionally correct—guesses about the universe. as discover magazine’s corey powell pointed out, the philosophers of the 16th century weren’t anything like scientists in the modern sense. bruno, for instance, was a “pandeist, ” which is the belief that god had transformed himself into all matter and ceased to exist as a distinct entity in himself. he believed in all sort of magic and spirits, and extrapolated those views far beyond his ideas about the infinity of the universe. in contrast to contemporaries who drew more modest conclusions from their similar ideas, bruno agitated for an elaborate counter - theology, and was (unlike the poor, humble outcast portrayed in cosmos) supported by powerful royal benefactors. the church didn’t even have a position on whether the earth orbited the sun, and didn’t bring it up at bruno’s trial. while the early - modern religious persecution certainly can’t be denied, bruno was killed because he flamboyantly denied basic tenets of the catholic faith, not because religious authorities were out to suppress all “freedom of thought. ”
this article explains how, according to the pythagorean concept of the first four numbers (1 - 2 - 3 - 4), augustine develops his own musical cosmology in christian theological context. augustine agrees with the pythagorean cosmology that numbers as the essence of the cosmos have been measured and arranged in a harmonic order and the sequence of the first four numbers perfectly illustrates the harmonic order. based on the unchangeable nature of numbers, augustine argues that the ratios of the first four numbers (1 / 1, 1 / 2, 2 / 3, 3 / 4) are not only the fundamental of harmonic law, but also the highest modus, by which god created all beauties / forms .
cosmos ’ treatment of bruno as a “martyr for science” is just a small example of a kind of cultural myth we tell ourselves about the development of modern society, one that’s almost completely divorced from the messy reality. it’s a story of an upward march from ignorance and darkness, where bold, rebel intellectuals like bruno faced down the tyrannical dogma of religion and eventually gave us secularism, democracy, and prosperity. iconoclastic individuals are our heroes, and big, bad institutions—monarchies, patriarchies, churches—are the villains. in the process, our fascinating, convoluted history gets flattened into a kind of secular bible story to remind us why individual freedom and “separation of church and state” are the most important things for us to believe in .
does it matter that a tv show doesn’t get into complexities that divide even the world’s leading historians? to a certain extent, misunderstanding the story of bruno isn’t going to do a whole lot of harm—especially in a country where so many people are in denial about basic scientific facts. but that cosmos added an unnecessary and skewed version of bruno—especially one skewed in this particular way—is a good miniature lesson about our tendency to turn the past into propaganda for our preferred view of the present. there are cultural, religious, and even political reasons that the story of scientific progress and political enlightenment are so attractive, and filter down even into our children’s entertainment. it allows us to see ourselves as the apex of history, the culmination of an inevitable, upward surge of improvement. it reassures us that our political values are righteous, and reminds us who the enemies are. the messy, complex, non - linear movement of actual history, by contrast, is unsettling, humbling—even terrifying .
finding the methods and results of the allegedly rational thought of modern naturalists seriously deficient, vine deloria jr. , native indian political activist turned naturalistic thinker, suggests that indigenous thinkers are in this respect more sensible than modern, scientistic naturalists. he traces their good sense to a consistent empiricism which strives to take into account all aspects of their concrete experiencing. lacking however the support of a vitalistic metaphysics that can synthesize their best insights, their modes of thought tend to be dismissed as superstitious and irrational. yet it is nonetheless possible to defend their core belief, that they dwell in a moral universe. to see this one requires a means to overcome the deadening effects of the abstract language of modern reason which presupposes the adequacy of the metaphysics of mechanistic materialism. this can be done starting with samuel butler' s incomplete lamarckian account of the evolution of this living cosmos, an account that can be supplemented by fashioning a vitalistic metaphysics based on the most salient characteristics of a living self using certain insights of a. n. whitehead, gilles deleuze, s. t. coleridge, among others .
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tuna was a 2 year feasibility study into the work needed to develop networks of nanites that behave safely. nanites are novel devices that operate on the nanoscopic level to cause macroscopic effects; nanotech assemblers are nanites that build artefacts .
( 1) to investigate the languages needed for developing abstract models of nanites and the protocols needed for inter - nanite communication and for external control .
( 2) to investigate methods for verifying and validating executable models of nanites .
( 3) to investigate the requirements for an appropriate simulation framework for executable models of nanites and of networks of nanites .
( 4) to investigate the nature of safety cases for the use of networks of nanites .
in carrying out these investigations, we used a case study from the field of nanomedicine: the process of haemostasis (the staunching of bleeding) caused by mechanical platelets .
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m. v. m. oliveira, a. l. c. cavalcanti, j. c. p. woodcock. formal development of industrial - scale systems. innovations in systems and software engineering. 1 (2): 126147, 2005 .
fiona polack, susan stepney. emergent properties do not refine. refine 2005 workshop, guildford, uk, april 2005. entcs, 137 (2): 163181, 2005 .
fiona polack, susan stepney, heather turner, peter welch, fred barnes. an architecture for modelling emergence in ca - like systems. ecal' 05, kent, uk, september 2005. lnai 3630: 427 - 436. springer, 2005 .
steve schneider, ana cavalcanti, helen treharne, jim woodcock. a layered behavioural model of platelets. iceccs 2006. ieee 2006 .
s. stepney, s. l. braunstein, j. a. clark, a. tyrrell, a. adamatzky, r. e. smith, t. addis, c. johnson, j. timmis, p. welch, r. milner, d. partridge. journeys in non - classical computation i: a grand challenge for computing research. international journal of parallel, emergent and distributed systems, 20 (1): 519, april 2006
s. stepney, s. l. braunstein, j. a. clark, a. tyrrell, a. adamatzky, r. e. smith, t. addis, c. johnson, j. timmis, p. welch, r. milner, d. partridge. journeys in non - classical computation ii: initial journeys and waypoints. international journal of parallel, emergent and distributed systems, 20 (1): 519, april 2006
susan stepney, fiona polack, heather turner. engineering emergence. iceccs 2006. ieee 2006 .
heather turner, susan stepney. rule migration: exploring a design framework for modelling emergence in ca - like systems. unconventional computing workshop, ecal' 05, kent, uk, september 2005 .
heather turner, susan stepney, fiona polack. a simulation environment for emergent properties (extended abstract). eccs 2005: european conference on complex systems, paris, france, 14 - 18 november 2005 .
heather turner, susan stepney, fiona polack. rule migration: exploring a design framework for emergence. international journal of unconventional computing. 3 (1): 49 - 66 2007 .
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we explore various definitions and characteristics of emergence, how we might recognise and measure emergence, and how we might engineer emergent systems. we discuss the tuna (theory underpinning nanotech assemblers) project, which is investigating emergent engineering in the context of molecular nanotechnology, and use the tuna case study to explore an…
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astronomer carl sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe .
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[ the show will be airing ] on sunday night [ 9 march 2014 ], in prime time after it had been promo' ed during the super bowl, fox had the super bowl, after it had been promo' ed during the world series in the bottom of the seventh inning in game 3 on saturday night, and it is airing on 171 stations around the world in 45 languages. any one of those sentences is a mind - blow, the fact it is all happening together is a stunning statement that there is a recognition by forces that be that science deserves to be mainstreamed .
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carl sagan explains scientific concepts like relativity and examines the possibility of time travel .
carl sagan examines the origin, development, and complexity of life on earth and speculates on the possibility of life developing elsewhere in the universe .
carl sagan focuses on the origin of the universe by discussing the big bang, galaxies, dimensions, and the expansion of the universe .
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astronomer dr. carl sagan is host and narrator of this 13 - hour series that originally aired on public broadcasting stations in the united states. dr. sagan describes the universe in a way that appeals to a mass audience, by using earth as a reference point, by speaking in terms intelligible to non - scientific people, by relating the exploration of space to that of the earth by pioneers of old, and by citing such earth legends as the library of alexandria as metaphors for space - related future events. among dr. sagan' s favorite topics are the origins of life, the search for life on mars, the infernal composition of the atmosphere of venus and a warning about a similar effect taking place on earth due to global pollution and the
greenhouse effect
, the lives of stars, interstellar travel and the effects of attaining the speed of light, the danger of mankind technologically self - destructing, and the search, using radio technology, for intelligent life in deep space .
and his production team traveled around the world, filming in places like india, egypt, italy, cambodia, france, alaska, mexico and usa, among others .
: human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter - gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city - states, nations. we have broadened the circle of those we love. we have now organized what are modestly described as super - powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together - surely ...
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she spoke about the various successes and challenges of engaging the public in such a large multi - national, multi - wavelength astronomical consortium. this is important because we think our data and science is great and we want to share it with everyone! the main challenge is that our astronomers, therefore the members of the public who we are trying to reach, are dispersed throughout the world over many different time zones and languages .
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the distribution of redshifts and k - band magnitudes of galaxies in the deimos 10k spectroscopic catalog. the colors (stacked per bin) indicate the different target samples from which the galaxies have been selected .
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, we see galaxies, forming a thick network that almost looks like cells in the human brain .
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meant generally
to dispose, prepare ,
but especially
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also
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to deck, adorn, equip, dress
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had an important secondary sense of
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the universe, the world .
pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to
the universe ,
perhaps originally meaning
the starry firmament ,
but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. for specific reference to
the world of people ,
the classical phrase was
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neil degrasse tyson’s remake of the 1980s series tries to explain how early - modern thinkers began to discover the wonders of the universe. its history is as cartoonish as its graphics .
the real path to our modern selves is much more complicated—so complicated that academic historians still endlessly debate how it happened. while some scholars treat “the enlightenment” as if it were a single movement, others argue that it unfolded differently—at different paces, in different styles—in different countries. some argue that atheism was a central concern, while others think the “age of reason” was driven more by the desire for greater political freedom. either way, deeply religious catholic scholars contributed to many of the great discoveries of natural science, and even the foundations of disciplines like geology. very few of the heroes of the enlightenment were atheists, and even the scientific luminaries of the period fell for various forms of “occultism, ” from alchemy to spirit - conjuring. many were elitists who, despite their opposition to tyranny, remained contemptuous of the masses. the veneration of reason did not lead neatly or automatically to moderate democratic politics; in some cases, like the terror of the french revolution, it resulted in bloody brutality not much different from the sort visited on religious heretics like bruno a few centuries before .
this founding work of the history of religions, first published in english in 1954, secured the north american reputation of the romanian émigré - scholar mircea eliade (1907 - 1986). making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen european languages, eliade' s the myth of the eternal return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and
primitive
religious cultures. while acknowledging that a return to the
archaic
is no longer possible, eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. jonathan z. smith' s new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of eliade' s argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text .
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a luminous, profound, and extremely stimulating work... . this is an essay which anyone interested in the history of religion and the mentality of ancient man will have to read .
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profound and pregnant research in the psychology of time and the intuitive forms of the mind as revealed by the early cultures' attitude toward history .
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this founding work of the history of religions, first published in english in 1954, secured the north american reputation of the romanian emigre - scholar mircea eliade (1907 - 1986). making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen european languages, eliade' s
the myth of the eternal return
makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and
primitive
religious cultures. while acknowledging that a return to the
archaic
is no longer possible, eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. jonathan z. smith' s new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of eliade' s argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text .
in a nutshell, this book concerns the translation of myth as a way of mans coping with the cruel world and the events therein. to primitive man the only acts that where valid where those that mirrored the actions of the gods and he frequently wiped his slate clean with frenzied ceremonies, so as to avoid responsibility for his transgressive acts. modern man developed a more inclusive view of himself where by his experience was / is part of a refinement of the soul and his historic sufferings are lessons on the road to his perfection. the development of these systems is determined by the examination of beliefs sourced from a wide range of ancient texts which when cross referenced form a generalised archaic ontology. the text contains an excessive amount of references and the main points / theories are repeated numerous times, but the length of the book and the information contained within make it quite tolerable for the non - academic to read. the final chapter is particularly illuminating as to the predicament of modern man in respect of his autonomy in a world where history is made by a minority .
i love this book since it is very useful book to support my research directly. i have got three books from mircea aliade in which he is one of the great thinker in his field .
the romanian - born historian of religion mircea eliade (1907–86) had to wait for years to get any of the books that would establish his international reputation published in ...
i have read quite a lot of this kind of stuff, but i must say that this was a book which was so good, and which i enjoyed reading so much that i wished i hadn' t read it yet .
originally written in 1954, and is a translation, so the style is not always easily accessible - requires effort to read - but worth it .
eliade is deeply original in his analysis, and i found he transformed my understanding of religious expression and ritual .
myth of the eternal return
is typically considered a vital text to anyone interested in sociological, anthropological and psychological approaches to religion .
this little book has managed to influence all discussions about time not only in religion, but also in psychology (see norman o .
an english translation of a romanian author' s rather vacuous french speculations about
primordial archetypes .
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quantum mechanics is typically divided into two parts: the unobserved amplitude given by the equations of quantum field theory and the observed measurement aspect. we argue that a better approach is insert a probability realm in the middle. the reason is that every measurement involves interactions with a complex environment where massive decoherence transforms the amplitudes into standard probabilities. the probabilities eliminate complex superpositions so that quantum states a and b become classical states a or b. thus the measurement process becomes a simpler and more familiar process of the observer selecting from classical type probabilities. this is close to the approach recommended by henry stapp. we anticipate that by using this approach many of the different interpretations of quantum mechanics become more similar to each other .
morphogenesis, the generation of form, is closely related to the mathematical field of topology, the study of the qualities of shape. since cerebral thought distils itself into shapes, seen and felt, and their subsequent transformation, the study of the emergence and comprehension of shapes is central to address questions of consciousness, emerging at the apparent juxtaposition of the internal world of the mind, and the external world of physical objects. since light is a vibrating electromagnetic wave, we use principles derived from measurements of coherent speckle in light, where energy unfolds out of singularities in the field, to draw analogies with the emergence of the material universe from centers of conscious experience. the vibrational basis of understanding consciousness is additionally complemented with ancient shaivik literature of south asia - the spandakarika (vibration chronicles) .
based on the author' s notes for a presentation to the foundations of mind group in october of 2017, this paper examines the role of metareligion in obtaining a favorable outcome for the human species as it approaches a singularity with both human and technological aspects. for limited technical background, please consult two of the author' s previous papers (langan, 2002, 2017) .
henry stapp' s realistically interpreted orthodox quantum mechanics suggests that when a question is asked, nature answers. in this formalism ,
the thought itself is the thinker ,
which clears the way for any thinker - human or other - to be an actively creative agent. in this process, an ensuing succession of questions arising in the minds of observers is received and responded to by a
nature
that chooses and implements responses in accordance with born' s rule in a physically described universe represented by evolving quantum mechanics states. this paper explores what results might be expected if and when artificial general intelligence (agi) asks questions, based on stapp' s orthodox interpretation .
this paper argues against the paradigm of mechanistic reductionism in relation to consciousness. the paradigm impoverishes reality by dismissing the greater part of the experienced world in exchange for control over a small segment. the distortion limits nature with respect to the concept of time and mistakenly defines consciousness as a
property .
the concept of time in the paradigm provides no way to account for remembering other than storage and mechanical retrieval of records of past events, erroneously called
memories .
the error is the conversion of verbs into nouns: taking actions as bytes and bits of data. once this is allowed, the idea that the person is the mind, the mind is the brain and the brain is a computer becomes the bedrock upon which the edifice of ai rises beyond its capacity as a useful tool and betrays humanity by blurring the distinction between self and machine. an alternative view is introduced which suggests the idea of developmental time instead of physical time and replaces
consciousness
with
experience
.
we propose a universal definition of intelligence of a physical system and discuss its implications on design of intelligent systems. the definition proposed is universally valid and does not invoke teleological or anthropic concepts. we discuss the relationship of intelligence to energetic properties by invoking recent results in inequilibrium thermodynamics and computational mechanics. intelligent system design is reformulated in three natural problems: selective forgetting, memory maintenance and self - recording. we conclude with highlighting the relationship of energetic and informational optimality principles involved in designing intelligent physical systems or their spontaneous emergence .
attempts are currently being made to use quantum mechanics as a probe to unravel the mysteries of consciousness. this paper examines this probe, quantum mechanics and its usefulness in getting an insight of working of human consciousness. the formation of quantum mechanics based on certain axioms, its development to study the dynamical behavior and motions of fundamental particles and quantum energy particles moving with the velocity of light, its insistence on wave functions, its probability approach, its dependence on uncertainty principles will all be critically discussed. the result of this discussion will be presented. its limitations in unraveling the form, function and biological nature of consciousness will be presented. the alternative probe available and being used - the translation of upanishadic insight and advaita philosophy into cognitive science elements in delineating the definition, form and function of consciousness will be given. the usefulness of this modeling and analysis in understanding the consciousness, mind and its functions in cognitive science and theory of human language acquisition and communication will also be presented. the physic - chemical nature of ideas, senses, thoughts, feelings, utterances will be grossly dealt with. the functions of consciousness and mind, in knowledge and language acquisition and communication will be dealt with .
whitehead believed that science and philosophy mutually criticize each other to provide imaginative material for their shaping the history of thought. in the early twentieth century, as a mathematician turned philosopher, he took up the task of challenging the emerging scientific theories of the time, such as relativity and quantum mechanics, and provided a radically novel cosmological scheme. he challenged the incoherence of the mechanistic materialistic scientific world with his visionary process - relational model, based on the ontology of organisms. almost a century later, his challenges to science are as, or even more, valid. this paper explores whitehead' s struggle with relativity, reflects on his response to quantum mechanics, and reviews his tribute to god, based on his philosophical model, as an attempt to understand divergent perspectives on the nature of universe .
the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics, which followed the copenhagen interpretation but was enhanced by primarily werner heisenberg and john von neumann into a fully developed theory, brought in, among others, the role of measurement, available choices and response of the quantum system. it is, more consistent and clear than other interpretations of quantum mechanics as it provides account of the interactions of observers with the external world. as such, the orthodox interpretation does a lot more than just account for physical interactions in the atomic world, which was the original goal of quantum mechanics in the early part of the twentieth century. in this article we present several issues that may have been answered or need further development, such as measurement and observation, what is nature and who the observer is. extending orthodox quantum mechanics, leading to universal non - dual awareness may provide a consistent and integrated view of reality and is consistent with advances in mathematical theory. an issue of paramount importance is what are the philosophical underpinnings or ontological view of the quantum nature of the universe and the role of human minds, observations and choices .
two very significant principles with vast ramifications discovered in the 20th century are the heisenberg uncertainty principle and the nonlocality principles of the einstein, podolsky, rosen (epr) paradox. these aspects of quantum theory have major physical and philosophical implications. the fundamental bases of nonlocality in quantum theory lie in the epr paradox, as well as other experiments that demand a nonlocal explanation for the phenomenon they display. the fundamental basis of nonlocality in the universe is fundamental to the properties of consciousness. we examined both micro and macroscopic nonlocality .
since the time of aristotle, metaphysics has been an ill - defined term. this paper defines it as a logically idempotent metalinguistic identity of reality which couples the two initial ingredients of awareness: perceptual reality (the basis of physics), and cognitive - perceptual syntax, a formalization of mind. the explanation has been reduced to a few very simple, clearly explained mathematical ingredients. this paper contains no assumptions or arguable assertions, and is therefore presented as an advanced formulation of logic which has been updated for meaningful reference to the structure of reality at large. this structure, called the cognitive - theoretic model of the universe or ctmu, resolves the problems attending cartesian dualism by replacing dualism with the mathematical property of self - duality, meaning (for reality - theoretic purposes) the quantum - level invariance of identity under permutation of objective and spatiotemporal data types. the ctmu takes the form of a global coupling or superposition of mind and physical reality in a self - dual metaphysical identity m: l↔u, which can be intrinsically developed into a logico - geometrically self - dual, ontologically self - contained language incorporating its own medium of existence and comprising its own model therein .
the benedictine monk sean o duinn is well - known for his writings in english and tv documentary appearances, espousing an ecological version of celtic christianity. in his writings in gaelic, free from the vatican censors, a more daring hypothesis emerges; celtic christianity was infused by old (possibly aryan) themes from the indus valley civilization. in this paper, we look at constraints on any new religious system, before excerpts from a work in progress to rescue this great figure as his end nears by translating this work into english.
cosmos is a uk funded research project seeking do build capacity in generic modelling tools and simulation techniques for complex systems . its acronym stands for complex systems modelling and simulation . this is a four-year project , running from 2007 to 2011 as a collaboration between the university of york and kent , with further collaborations from the university of abertay dundee and bristol robotics laboratory . 
cosmos is a uk funded research project seeking do build capacity in generic modelling tools and simulation techniques for complex systems. its acronym stands for complex systems modelling and simulation. this is a four-year project, running from 2007 to 2011 as a collaboration between the university of york and kent, with further collaborations from the university of abertay dundee and bristol robotics laboratory.
cosmos is a uk funded research project seeking do build capacity in generic modelling tools and simulation techniques for complex systems. its acronym stands for complex systems modelling and simulation. this is a four-year project, running from 2007 to 2011 as a collaboration between the university of york and kent, with further collaborations from the university of abertay dundee and bristol robotics laboratory.