The Impossible Turing Test
Will we ever admit that AI has become smarter than us? Or is it a goal that will always be just out of reach…
Finding Meaning in the Modern World
What is the meaning of life? Meaning is often discussed in a philosophical context, but in reality meaning is a feeling. Just like any other feeling, we can find reliable…
The Gift of Language and the Hidden Existential Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Giving AI the ability to read and write is a turning point in the course of its development, going far beyond its ability to see and imagine. Will our life…
Activation Energy
Sometimes things need to get worse before they get better. Sometimes things need to get messier before they become clear. Sometimes you need an initial push to get the car…
Being Too Quick to Judge: A Necessary Evil?
Relatively recently, I wrote a review on Goodreads of the book \”The Secret Commonwealth\” by Philip Pullman. I initially knocked the book a star. I thought it was a 4-star…
Learning out of curiosity: Bubbles of ignorance
The only way to learn is to learn out of curiosity, otherwise, there’s no motivation. If you learn due to an external drive, you’re not really learning. If you don’t…
Can Money Buy Happiness?
A Sisyphean perspective sheds light on the age-old question of whether money can buy happiness. Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash During this unusual time, many people, including myself, may…
The Disappearing Plank
What I am about to tell you about is magic – REAL magic – that can be performed using mere mathematics. This is not a trick. It is reality. I…
Don’t tell me, show me
“Do not simply tell people what happens in a story – show them”. This is a major pseudo-rule in story telling. Its what turns a series of random events into…
Knowledge
When somebody knows everything, they might be right in their own eyes, but certainly not from a less biased perspective. Knowing everything means that there is nothing you do not…
To infinity and its negative – a demonstration of the nature of space in the universe
This graph is analogical to movement in the universe. It is in fact the graph of the reciprocal of the hyperbolic tan function. What I wanted to demonstrate was the…
Probability, chaos and the nature of creation
Probability and an elementary, almost axiomatically governing rule of the universe (thoughts given through the analogy of a complex puzzle)I will attempt in this article to describe my views on how…
There is no such thing as magic!
This article is not about the magic of the Harry Potter Universe – that which fuels the dynamics of wizarding society, but rather the magic that seems to fuel on…
We’ll be counting… numbers
You may have learnt the formula in school: $\\sum\\limits_{r=1}^n r = \\frac{(n+1)(n)}{2}$ $n$ here is the last value in the series to be added up. $a$ is the starting value.…
The Self Referencing Proof or (God’s) Pure Essence Tainted Upon Entering this World
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/evQsOFQju08&source=uds Watching this video by VSauce recently, reminded me of a question that I had once asked myself: do we all see colours in the same way? When Michael mentioned…
Zero divided by zero?
What is the value of 0/0? At first glance you might think that this actually has the value of 0, considering that if zero is divided by anything it is…
Relative Matters
While reading about the amazing NASA New Horizons Space Probe (which is due to arrive at Pluto in less than a year!) I came across a webpage tracking the movement…
Do you believe in fate?
We oftentimes hear about the suggestion that there is such a thing as \”fate\”, \”destiny\”, a \”plan\” for humankind. These words are tossed around in everyday speech in a myriad…
Computers don’t always do what they’re told to
Thinking about computers, we know that one of these days they\’re going to stop obeying Moore\’s law, at least for silicon microprocessors. Moore\’s law was a prediction made by a…
The never ending end and the means justified
One question we may ask ourselves often is, \’is what I\’m doing really worth doing?\’. Think about the last time you might\’ve thought this way, perhaps it was at school…
About Time – what we "know" about the master of the human race
Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2014/02/about-time-what-we-about-master-of.html We all encounter it everyday. We think about it constantly. We can hardly say a thing without mentioning it. Yes, what I’m talking about is of…
How to improve your life with a ‘P’…
Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-improve-your-life-with-p.html I’ve thought up a little system composed of ten words. These words describe and include ten things that apply to everyone in the world, and will…
The World Upside Down
Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/10/world-upside-down.html We all know about the laws of physics and gravity and the like. We know that previous societies thought that the sun and stars revolved around…
Arrogance about Knowledge
Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/10/arrogance-about-knowledge.html Of course, many of us in the world have often said: ‘Oh, I know all about that’ and therefore don’t listen to what others have to…
Charges of Geresy 