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| Name | dawnb |
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Every so often, I check news regarding the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Project – the lab closed in 2007 but it’s purpose — “to study the potential vulnerability of engineering devices and information processing systems to the anomalous influence of the consciousness of their human operators.” — has been carried on and…[Read more]
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dawnb replied to the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group
Singularity & Change
Thank you for the question re the fact of singularity…it prompted me to look up the term, which I’d thought of only as an infinite point in the gravitational field – there are fascinating results online to the […]
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dawnb posted a new activity commentIn reply to: J G Coleman posted an update in the group Esoterica I’m a fairly avid viewer of all shows about the paranormal on the TV, although am getting a bit jaded about “Ghost Adventures” show.( “If this is the Portal Of H […] View
I made a common mistake when referring to Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle; what I meant to bring up was instead the Observor Effect – here is a brief definition from Wikipedia:
In science, the term observer effect means that the act of observing will influence the phenomenon being observed. For example, for us to “see” an electron, a photon must…[Read more]
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I believe there are different types of dreams, ie the mundane and the meaningful. Alternatively, the thought occurs that the meaningful type of dreams come to us in the vehicle of the mundane dreamstate that our […]
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After recovering from the shock of discovering ‘mom’s dissolute youth’ her son may appreciate the depth of knowing mom as real and three dimensional, and her honesty as well.
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dawnb posted a new activity commentIn reply to: admin started the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group Singularity & Change What science fiction discusses this fact? View
Considering the topic of artificial intelligence and science fiction… in Robert Heinlein’s novels The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walked Trough Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, etc. computers were more apt to develope consciouness as they increased in complexity – but more significantly as…[Read more]
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dawnb posted a new activity commentIn reply to: J G Coleman posted an update in the group Esoterica I’m a fairly avid viewer of all shows about the paranormal on the TV, although am getting a bit jaded about “Ghost Adventures” show.( “If this is the Portal Of H […] View
I believe we encounter these phenomenon as we become more aware of the possibilities. Consider Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the observor effect in physics. We interact with reality as we put our attention to it…
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Thoughts on consciouseness…
Popular culture is increasingly reflective of a swelling interest in awakening from the mundane conception of reality…think ‘The Matrix’
The new cability of the common […]
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dawnb posted a new activity commentIn reply to: admin started the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group Singularity & Change What science fiction discusses this fact? View
The first thought I had in answer was Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream…/Blade Runner (movie) – must admit I haven’t read the book, but the movie was suberb. Rutger Hauer’s portrayal of a constructed (artificial) sentient being was compelling. Harrison Ford played the blade runner – sent to hunt down the rogue androids…to start, he had…[Read more]
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dawnb posted a new activity commentIn reply to: Jerome started the forum topic Futurists Predictions in the group Singularity & Change: Futurists, including Ray Kurzweil, predict that by 2045 bionic elements will have blurred the distinction between man and […] View
We may then have awakened to the realization that such distinctions as man/machine, animate/inanimate…intent/actuality are illusory.
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I don’t know if that’s true, Dawn,because very few of us, I imagine, go through life on the lookout for ghostly happenings…my experience is that they simply arrive out of the blue while we are making shopping lists, reading a book, putting a baby to bed or involved in other mundane everyday activities. I haven’t read Heisenbergs Uncertainty…[Read more]
I made a common mistake when referring to Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle; what I meant to bring up was instead the Observor Effect – here is a brief definition from Wikipedia:
In science, the term observer effect means that the act of observing will influence the phenomenon being observed. For example, for us to “see” an electron, a photon must…[Read more]