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The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility

https://qz.com/1184574/the-idea-that-everything-from-spoons-to-stones-are-conscious-is-gaining-academic-credibility/

“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. “Einstein tells us weird things about the nature of time that counters common sense; quantum mechanics runs counter to common sense. Our intuitive reaction isn’t necessarily a good guide to the nature of reality.”

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DNA from the perspective of a software engineer

You really will probably only benefit from this if you are at least familiar with software engineering jargon.. but if you are.. it’s very interesting..

https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/

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INSIDE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/?mbid=synd_digg

“What is going to be created will effectively be a god,”

 

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Elon Musk is worried about people who talk of “AI gods”

https://www.fastcompany.com/40485668/elon-musk-is-worried-about-people-who-talk-of-ai-gods

Musk prefers to make super humans as opposed to deities. He wants to make sure humans stay on the throne.

 

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New wormholes allows information to escape

https://www.quantamagazine.org/newfound-wormhole-allows-information-to-escape-black-holes-20171023/

 

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The multiverse is inevitable

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“What is the Multiverse, then? It may go well beyond physics, and be the first physically motivated “metaphysics” we’ve ever encountered. For the first time, we’re understanding the limits of what our Universe can teach us. There is information we need, but that we’ll never obtain, in order to elevate this into the realm of testable science. Until then, we can predict, but neither verify nor refute, the fact that our Universe is just one small part of a far grander realm: the Multiverse.”

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The Last Invention of Man

http://m.nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/the-last-invention-of-man

 

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An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?

An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?

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Silicon valley’s religious drive

https://newrepublic.com/article/145121/silicon-valleys-religious-drive

“Science is like religion, an effort at transcendance that ends by accepting a world that is beyond understanding,” John Gray writes in The Immortalization Commission. “Just like faith, reason must at last submit; the final end of science is the revelation of the absurd.” The chief hypocrisy of evangelical atheism is its reluctance to recognize the magical thinking in its own dogma. Intellect and religious feeling can co-exist, because that religious feeling springs from a place intellect doesn’t reach. The desire to transcend, to conquer, and to endure propels our drive to invent and maps our relations with those inventions.

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Proof of God playing dice

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The takeaway for me here is that “uncertainty” is baked into the Universe’s operating system. It’s fundamental to the existence of everything. Why and how? How can seeming randomness be a part of the Universe?