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History of science, concept. Isaac Newton with Apple in hand

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Author
Erik J. Larson
Date
November 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Isaac Newton, The Economist}

Don’t Expect AI to Revolutionize Science

_{Data science is a downstream phenomenon. Thinking isn't.} _{Erik J. Larson

November 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

The September 2023 cover of The Economist features a robot sitting under an apple tree, raising a finger to some Eureka! moment, after an apple falls from the tree and hits it on the head. Anyone even remotely familiar with the history of science knows the image belongs to Isaac Newton, who gave an account of an apple falling to the ground while sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor in 1666. As he later recounted, he asked himself why the apple should fall perpendicularly to the ground, which gave rise to the idea that the very same force pulling the apple to earth kept the moon falling to the earth, and the earth to the sun. The apple, in other words, Read More ›

Silhouette of a man, with thoughts in the form of physico-mathematical formulas. The concept of scientific and education topics.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 6, 2023

Categorized
Mathematics

Tagged
Elements by Euclid, Euclidean geometry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Mathematics, Physics, Robert J. Marks, Royal Society}

Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

_{Some think math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards discovery.} _{Robert J. Marks

July 6, 2023

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Mathematics}

Some think math is invented. (See the article by Peter Biles.) Evidence, though, points towards discovery. Simultaneous mathematical discovery supports this viewpoint. Many mathematical breakthroughs are sometimes independently reported by two or more mathematicians at roughly the same time. The most famous is the simultaneous discovery of calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Newton was secretive about his discovery and shared his results with only a few members of the Royal Society. When Leibnitz published his discovery of the calculus, Newton charged him with plagiarism. Today, historians agree that the discoveries were independent of each other. Here are some other lesser-known examples of simultaneous discovery. The Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm (PGA). The PGA is an ingenious method for recovering lost Read More ›

Law of Universal Gravitation education funny concept. Isaac Newton under an apple tree

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 31, 2023

Categorized
Physics

Tagged
Atoms, brain, Democritus, Ghosts, gravity, Isaac Newton, machine, Materialism, Matter, mind, Mind Brain, Particles, Physics}

Blinded by a Defunct Theory

_{The "interaction problem" is everywhere we look in physics, but the dogma of materialism remains} _{Eric Holloway

January 31, 2023

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Physics}

Materialism. What a weird word. It sounds like a ghost, materializing in front of me. And it is sort of like a ghost, one that has mysteriously taken over the minds of many intelligent people. Because they believe in materialism, these smart people don’t believe in ghosts. Especially the ghost in the machine. The problem is there is no way for the ghost to interact with the machine. This is known as the “mind-body interaction problem”. The great thing about materialism is at least that theory doesn’t have an interaction problem. Any material thing can interact with any other material thing. Yet there is a deep irony. Let’s explore the idea of materialism to see why. Materialism is the idea that reality only consists of matter. Read More ›

multiverse and alternative universes concept

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 28, 2021

Categorized
Mathematics, Science

Tagged
David Hilbert, David Hilbert (on infinities), Featured, Georg Cantor (on infinities), Hilbert's Hotel, Infinity (as understood in math), Isaac Newton, Multiverse (refuted by math)}

Why Just Anything Can’t Happen via Infinite Universes

_{We can see why not, using simple mathematical reasoning in this universe} _{Robert J. Marks

October 28, 2021

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Mathematics, Science}

Can anything happen if there are an infinite number of universes each with an infinite number of possibilities in each? Can you be bald in one universe and fully haired in another? Can you have two eyeballs in this universe and three in another? The answer is no. In a nutshell, the reason is that some infinities are bigger than other infinities. (And this is not a claim like infinity plus one is bigger than infinity. Infinity plus one is still infinity.) The number of points on a line segment from, say zero to one, is a bigger infinity than the number of counting numbers {1,2,3,…}. We can label the infinite number of universes in the multiverse as universe #1, Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
February 2, 2021

Categorized
Religion, Science

Tagged
Blaise Pascal, Claude Shannon, Donald Knuth, Featured, Francis COllins, George Washington Carver, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, Richard Feynman, Robert Boyle, Thomas Bayes, Tycho Brahe}

Five Surprising Facts Re Famous Scientists We Bet You Never Knew

_{How about juggling, riding a unicycle, and playing bongo? Or catching criminals or cracking safes?} _{Robert J. Marks

February 2, 2021

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Religion, Science}

We know what famous scientists like Einstein are famous for but we don’t know much about who they are. Here are five personal life facts about scientists who made a big difference to our understanding of the world that you probably didn’t know. The most interesting one is saved for last. 1.Isaac Newton dressed as a bum to mingle with the unwashed and catch criminals. Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) was the father of classical physics and an inventor of calculus. When students take their first college classes in calculus and physics today, they study the concepts Newton developed in the 17th century. But Newton also wrote over a million words on Biblical prophecy. He was also the Warden and Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
September 4, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI Singularity, Alchemy, Isaac Newton, Singularity}

Pursuit of the AI Singularity Is Modern Alchemy

_{Just as lead cannot just become gold, software cannot just become creative} _{Robert J. Marks

September 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence}

Isaac Newton was a great scientist but he wasted a lot of time trying to turn lead into gold. Today, some great computer scientists waste a lot of time trying to produce AI that creates better AI without a programmer. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 6, 2018

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Classical Physics, Coin Flipping, Cryptography, Determinism, Encryption, Featured, free will, Isaac Newton, Physics, Quantum Collapse, Roger Penrose, Specified Complexity}

Quantum Randomness Gives Nature Free Will

_{Whether or not quantum randomness explains how our brains work, it may help us create unbreakable encryption codes} _{Robert J. Marks

December 6, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

When I was boy, my father explained free will and predestination to me: I dig a fence post hole. · Did I create the hole because of my own free will? · Or was the hole already there and I simply removed the dirt? If true, the hole was predestined. The question cannot be answered by examining the evidence. In philosophy terms, it is “empirically unanswerable.” That is the sort of stuff that philosophers debate. Religious people might point to scripture to support one conclusion over the other.1 In physics, however, quantum randomness offers a definitive answer to the question of predestination vs. free will—for subatomic particles. In the world of classical physics (Isaac Newton’s physics), it can be argued Read More ›