I don't know if it's just that I have better proprioception than most people, but I can 'see' my body, without color, when I close my eyes. From what I can tell, it has nothing to do with light. It's more to do with my body knowing where everything's at, and assembling that information in my mind as a 'visual' data.
This works no matter where the body part is. For instance, if I close my eyes and put my hand behind my back, I can still 'see' it.
Moreover, it works to a limited degree for anything I'm touching as well. I can 'see' the areas of the object I'm holding. If I've touched the entire object, my mind retains the shapes it felt, and displays the whole object (as it was when I felt those areas) as if I were seeing it with my eyes.
I hope this research goes somewhere. I'd like a scientific explanation for this phenomena.
I'm typing this on a computer that is six years old. Nothing in it has ever been replaced.
I'm typing this with a body that is roughly 20 years old. In that time, the exterior has been replaced about 270 times. The blood and associated components have been replaced about 730 times. The whole shebang has been completely wiped and replaced roughly 3 times.
You might say that my hardware has been completely replaced 3 times, yet I persist. Why?
All of the replacing was done fairly automatically. I still had to provide raw materials, but the body did the rest. The 'important' part, however, the 'self' was preserved. My memories, personality, etc... all transcended the replacements. They could do this because they are not directly in the materials of the body, but in the dynamic patterns those materials preserve.
To say that the singularity will fail because the hardware of each unique computer system will fail completely overlooks the fact that most of the 'important' stuff isn't the hardware. You need the hardware, yes, but the data on the hard drive is the important thing. As long as there is more hardware to replace the old hardware, it really doesn't matter what the lifespan of a computer is.
Case in point, I still have some old files on this computer that were on my first computer that I had back in the early/mid 90's. If I keep transferring it, the data may eventually outlive me despite that it's had 3 or 4 'bodies' already.
I want to see this movie for the purposes of entertainment based on stupidity value, and to be able to retort to my friends and family who will inevitably bring it up, but I'm hesitate to give money to a twit such as Stein by seeing it in theaters. Does anyone know where I can (in order of preference) stream, download, or torrent this film?
What's the point in using a variable number? You might as well just post a picture with a sign that says "0 days since we have duped an article" and save yourself the time of programing the counter. Goodness knows they'd never get the opportunity to set it to '1' before having to click the 'we fucked up' button again.
Maybe from the/. community, but the story itself makes me think that someone was watching a little too much.Hack//Sign. Anyone reminded of the "Deadly Flash" virus from that show?
Deadly Flash a virus that is capable of inducing epiliptic seizures is released, killing several people. Now let's just hope no one finds out how to make the Pluto's Kiss virus. I really don't want to be stuck using a Mac.
It seems odd to me that there are so many references to Hal, but none to Jane of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.
Something like this lip-reading technology could lead us towards sub-vocalization technology that would allow us to communicate without fully emphatic lip movements. Personally, if there were a cheap way to have lip-reading on a home computer, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. If we could ever get some of those earrings that Ender uses to communicate with Jane, it would be a big step forward in fully integrating our technology with our biology.
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I can do this, in a manner of speaking.
I don't know if it's just that I have better proprioception than most people, but I can 'see' my body, without color, when I close my eyes. From what I can tell, it has nothing to do with light. It's more to do with my body knowing where everything's at, and assembling that information in my mind as a 'visual' data.
This works no matter where the body part is. For instance, if I close my eyes and put my hand behind my back, I can still 'see' it.
Moreover, it works to a limited degree for anything I'm touching as well. I can 'see' the areas of the object I'm holding. If I've touched the entire object, my mind retains the shapes it felt, and displays the whole object (as it was when I felt those areas) as if I were seeing it with my eyes.
I hope this research goes somewhere. I'd like a scientific explanation for this phenomena.
The title was much more exciting when my dyslexia told me it said, "When Dinosaurs Battled Courtesans."
So... no sexy renaissance ladies battling giant lizards?
That's no moon!
I'm typing this on a computer that is six years old. Nothing in it has ever been replaced. I'm typing this with a body that is roughly 20 years old. In that time, the exterior has been replaced about 270 times. The blood and associated components have been replaced about 730 times. The whole shebang has been completely wiped and replaced roughly 3 times. You might say that my hardware has been completely replaced 3 times, yet I persist. Why?
All of the replacing was done fairly automatically. I still had to provide raw materials, but the body did the rest. The 'important' part, however, the 'self' was preserved. My memories, personality, etc... all transcended the replacements. They could do this because they are not directly in the materials of the body, but in the dynamic patterns those materials preserve.
To say that the singularity will fail because the hardware of each unique computer system will fail completely overlooks the fact that most of the 'important' stuff isn't the hardware. You need the hardware, yes, but the data on the hard drive is the important thing. As long as there is more hardware to replace the old hardware, it really doesn't matter what the lifespan of a computer is. Case in point, I still have some old files on this computer that were on my first computer that I had back in the early/mid 90's. If I keep transferring it, the data may eventually outlive me despite that it's had 3 or 4 'bodies' already.
I want to see this movie for the purposes of entertainment based on stupidity value, and to be able to retort to my friends and family who will inevitably bring it up, but I'm hesitate to give money to a twit such as Stein by seeing it in theaters. Does anyone know where I can (in order of preference) stream, download, or torrent this film?
What's the point in using a variable number? You might as well just post a picture with a sign that says "0 days since we have duped an article" and save yourself the time of programing the counter. Goodness knows they'd never get the opportunity to set it to '1' before having to click the 'we fucked up' button again.
It seems odd to me that there are so many references to Hal, but none to Jane of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series. Something like this lip-reading technology could lead us towards sub-vocalization technology that would allow us to communicate without fully emphatic lip movements. Personally, if there were a cheap way to have lip-reading on a home computer, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. If we could ever get some of those earrings that Ender uses to communicate with Jane, it would be a big step forward in fully integrating our technology with our biology.
Did that sentence sound very MacGyver to anyone else?