35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - CLIFFORD PICKOVER - We are all virtual - "If this ratio of one real life to ten simulated lives turned out to be representative of human experience, this means that right now, you only have a one in ten chance of being alive on the actual date of today."
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35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - DAVID LYKKEN - Laws requiring parental licensure - "I believe that, during my grandchildren's lifetimes, the U.S. Supreme Court will find a way to approve laws requiring parental licensure."
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35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - SUSAN BLACKMORE - Everything is pointless - "We humans can, and do, make up our own purposes, but ultimately the universe has none."
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35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - Clay Shirky - Free will is going away. Time to redesign society to take that into account. - "In the coming decades, our concept of free will, based as it is on ignorance of its actual mechanisms, will be destroyed by what we learn about the actual workings of the brain."
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35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - KEITH DEVLIN - We are entirely alone - "The fact that our existence has no purpose outside that existence is completely irrelevant to the way we live our lives, since we are inside our existence."
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35 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - ALUN ANDERSON - Brains cannot become minds without bodies - "A far more dangerous idea is that brains cannot become minds without bodies, that two-way interactions between mind and body are crucial to thought and health, and the brain may partly think in terms of the motor actions it encodes for the body's muscles
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49 month ago
plasticbag : U2log.com - one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs - I'm not a great fan of U2, but it's still an impressive site - and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for commercial webloggery. I wonder if it makes any money...
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