Space junk tends to be flying so fast (36,000kmph) that it would damage whatever material your ship was made of. It's better to have something that could be repaired easily. Here's a link on space junk.
Historically, the reason large groups of people could be controlled by small groups is that the small groups were able to coordinate their behavior better. This usually took years of training within a culture of discipline (like the Roman army). Now, with technology, it is easier to coordinate the behaviors of large groups of people. Your seeing more of this sort of thing with grass roots campain activity over the internet. However, this will lead to unexpected side effects which I certainly can't predict, and I imagine has the entrenched powers-that-be worried, because if you're in power you want the general population to be predictable.
Actually, it does explain why so many men stay faithful to their wives after child-bearing years. It states that there was an evolutionary advantage for men to stick around women even if he wasn't sure she was fertile. Sexual attraction and emotional bonding evolved to keep the man around. It grew to such strength that it can keep a man around even if the woman is no longer fertile. You can't deny that men have a tendency to be attracted to young, fertile appearing women. But it is because of evolution that all men aren't dumping their women after menopause.
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
Being a programmer and not knowing at least the basics of assembly language is like being a doctor and not knowing what a cell is. Depending on your specialty, you can get by all right about 99% of the time, but if you hit a problem that stumps you, you won't be able to delve deeper into it because you won't know how. A deeper knowledge gives you insights, because where the rubber hits the road, it's all bits turning on and off in registers. If you don't understand what those bits are doing then it might as well be magic and it's time to break out the prayer beads.
Seems like an awful lot of work. It's much easier to set a break points and step through the code. Log files are good for some types of bugs, but I don't resort to them until after I've tried stepping through.
I used to volunteer on at a schizophrenia ward at a psychiatric hospital when I studied psychology. People would be admitted, get put on meds, stay for awhile until the meds took effect, and then go back out on their own. Once on their own many would think they were 'cured' and stop taking their meds. Then they would have another episode and end up back at the hospital. So my advice is to support her in taking meds. The right type and dose of medication is crucial to a good quality of life. It may take awhile for the doctors to get that right, and it is important to support her while they try.
The funny thing about consciousness is that we're talking about what it's like to be something. For instance, I know what it's like to be a clump of brain cells. I don't know what it's like to be a ping-pong ball. I know I'm sounding a little wacky, but perhaps it is a characteristic of physical stuff to have "awareness". My awareness is "self-awareness" because the clump of neurons that is me is a simulations of the universe that is self-referencing.
The really weird thing is the binding problem. I'm a bunch of neurons with different neurons having different information about the self-referencing simulation of the universe. So how does this clump of neurons seem to experience the different bits of information in different places as a whole? I see and hear at the same time. What's up with that? Well, perhaps the complex continuous electromagnetic field that the clump of brain cells generates is the thing that has subjective experience. Maybe all continuous electromagnetic fields have subjective experience. It's just an aspect of the universe.
What is a "thing" anyway. That's what I'd like to know!
Each of the many instances of me that exist throughout time is active, none is specially "picked out". Each experiences his one moment as now. Each thinks that each now is special because that is the one he happens to be in. Each is in fact stuck on one state. I am not the same being that existed a moment ago. I am not the same being that will exist a moment from now. Each one is different, but has memories from the previous one, and those memories provide the illusion of continuity. You get the feeling you are not stuck because the time slice you are in now has memories of things being different from the one previous, and you believe that was you. An instant from now another "you" will have that same feeling. And the instant after that, and so on.
No being experiences one thought and then another. A being experiences a thought and the memory of having another thought that the previous being had in the past. You say you have "one thought and then another", but when you have your "another" thought, you are not simultaneously having the thought that is in the past. That thought is with the being that exists in the past. The only thoughts you can have now are the ones that exist now. The experience of change comes from the memory of things being different.
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Zu Mangani bundolo numa? Rota!
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Space junk tends to be flying so fast (36,000kmph) that it would damage whatever material your ship was made of. It's better to have something that could be repaired easily. Here's a link on space junk.
Oh, wait...
Too easy.
Historically, the reason large groups of people could be controlled by small groups is that the small groups were able to coordinate their behavior better. This usually took years of training within a culture of discipline (like the Roman army). Now, with technology, it is easier to coordinate the behaviors of large groups of people. Your seeing more of this sort of thing with grass roots campain activity over the internet. However, this will lead to unexpected side effects which I certainly can't predict, and I imagine has the entrenched powers-that-be worried, because if you're in power you want the general population to be predictable.
It is more probable that gravity propogates at the speed of light. See here.
i, for one, welcome our nouvelle overlord of freedom
If that's not flamebait I don't know what is.
It might be very very insightful. It might be shallow, but then again, it might be very very very insightful. It almost certainly won't be dense.
It might be very very bad. It might be good, but then again, it might be very very very bad. It almost certainly won't be great.
Actually, it does explain why so many men stay faithful to their wives after child-bearing years. It states that there was an evolutionary advantage for men to stick around women even if he wasn't sure she was fertile. Sexual attraction and emotional bonding evolved to keep the man around. It grew to such strength that it can keep a man around even if the woman is no longer fertile. You can't deny that men have a tendency to be attracted to young, fertile appearing women. But it is because of evolution that all men aren't dumping their women after menopause.
Once you get this thing working, how much for a ticket to ride?
They stood close because they were hoping the exhaust would dye their hair blond.
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
Being a programmer and not knowing at least the basics of assembly language is like being a doctor and not knowing what a cell is. Depending on your specialty, you can get by all right about 99% of the time, but if you hit a problem that stumps you, you won't be able to delve deeper into it because you won't know how. A deeper knowledge gives you insights, because where the rubber hits the road, it's all bits turning on and off in registers. If you don't understand what those bits are doing then it might as well be magic and it's time to break out the prayer beads.
Seems like an awful lot of work. It's much easier to set a break points and step through the code. Log files are good for some types of bugs, but I don't resort to them until after I've tried stepping through.
His name was Imhotep
I used to volunteer on at a schizophrenia ward at a psychiatric hospital when I studied psychology. People would be admitted, get put on meds, stay for awhile until the meds took effect, and then go back out on their own. Once on their own many would think they were 'cured' and stop taking their meds. Then they would have another episode and end up back at the hospital. So my advice is to support her in taking meds. The right type and dose of medication is crucial to a good quality of life. It may take awhile for the doctors to get that right, and it is important to support her while they try.
The article simply claims that this is new evidence. Blame michael for saying it is a new discovery.
Where's John Gault?
I knew it was a bad idea for them to make spacesuits out of meat.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but this article may provide an additional clue.
The funny thing about consciousness is that we're talking about what it's like to be something. For instance, I know what it's like to be a clump of brain cells. I don't know what it's like to be a ping-pong ball. I know I'm sounding a little wacky, but perhaps it is a characteristic of physical stuff to have "awareness". My awareness is "self-awareness" because the clump of neurons that is me is a simulations of the universe that is self-referencing.
The really weird thing is the binding problem. I'm a bunch of neurons with different neurons having different information about the self-referencing simulation of the universe. So how does this clump of neurons seem to experience the different bits of information in different places as a whole? I see and hear at the same time. What's up with that? Well, perhaps the complex continuous electromagnetic field that the clump of brain cells generates is the thing that has subjective experience. Maybe all continuous electromagnetic fields have subjective experience. It's just an aspect of the universe.
What is a "thing" anyway. That's what I'd like to know!
Just give them a couple of Powerballs and have 'em start spinning. Powerballs
Each of the many instances of me that exist throughout time is active, none is specially "picked out". Each experiences his one moment as now. Each thinks that each now is special because that is the one he happens to be in. Each is in fact stuck on one state. I am not the same being that existed a moment ago. I am not the same being that will exist a moment from now. Each one is different, but has memories from the previous one, and those memories provide the illusion of continuity. You get the feeling you are not stuck because the time slice you are in now has memories of things being different from the one previous, and you believe that was you. An instant from now another "you" will have that same feeling. And the instant after that, and so on.
No being experiences one thought and then another. A being experiences a thought and the memory of having another thought that the previous being had in the past. You say you have "one thought and then another", but when you have your "another" thought, you are not simultaneously having the thought that is in the past. That thought is with the being that exists in the past. The only thoughts you can have now are the ones that exist now. The experience of change comes from the memory of things being different.