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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011Tonight I’ve been trying to study neuroscience, in particular our language systems, but I’m unable to concentrate. My mind is just rushing all over the place. I want to scream, but there’s nobody to scream to, so I’ll scream here in text. I’m going to begin by asking you all a few questions. Do you [...]
Christians Need Us All To Eventually Die
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011The other day I was speaking with my father, who, as many of you already know, is a pastor of a protestant church. Somehow we got to speaking about medicine and recent advances in technology, and I began telling him about synthetic organs. Naturally I’m very excited about them. I recently came across an article [...]
Ramblings About Video Games
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Don’t ask me why, but today I was in the mood to search Youtube for clips of some of my favorite games from my childhood. Where shall we begin? Day of the Tentacle: Now there’s a classic for you. You play the role of Bernard, an intrepid computer nerd who is forced by dire circumstances [...]
An Upcoming Technological Singularity?
Friday, June 24th, 2011Philosophers all around the world are wondering, “What will happen when we have machines which are more intelligent than we are?” This event has come to be known as the “technological singularity”. Wikipedia defines the event as follows: Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than human intelligence. Since the capabilities of such [...]
A Sixth Sense
Friday, June 17th, 2011Sometimes I feel like a stuck record, saying the same things over and over, but I want to spend a moment tonight reflecting on how amazing, and strange, consciousness really is. Imagine if, while you were developing in the womb you underwent a mild complication leaving you with brain damage in your gustatory cortex. You [...]
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