And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Although we take this for granted, the cancellation of positive and negative charges is quite remarkable, and has been experimentally checked to 1 part in 1021. (Of course, there are local imbalances...
Algunos críticos afirman también que un verdadero detector de mentiras, como un verdadero telépata, podría hacer que las relaciones sociales ordinarias resultasen muy incómodas, puesto que cierta cant...
A quantum theory of gravity that unites it with the other forces is the Holy Grail of physics.
A careful analysis of the DNA within the mitochondria indicates that errors are indeed concentrated here. The hope is that one day scientists might use the cells' own repair mechanisms to reverse the...
The Mind of God, which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.
¿Llegarán a superarnos los ordenadores en inteligencia? Ciertamente no hay nada en las leyes de la física que lo impida.
Phrenologists
Hurtling in all directions; he preferred the smooth creation of mass out of nothing. In other words, the universe was timeless. It had no end, nor a beginning. It just was.
El hito siguiente en la historia de la IA: aplicar una ingeniería inversa al cerebro humano.
You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.
To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.
This means that, in some sense, free will is a fake. Decisions are made ahead of time by the brain, without the input of consciousness, and then later the brain tries to cover this up (as it’s wont to...
This means that the two hemispheres may even have different beliefs. For example, the neurologist V. S. Ramanchandran describes one split-brain patient who, when asked if he was a believer or not, sai...
Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.
They found that temperature and carbon dioxide levels have oscillated in parallel, like two roller coasters moving together, in synchronization over many thousands of years. When one curve rises or fa...
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. —G. K. Chesterson
The most complex object in the known universe, brain, only uses 20 watts of power.