The Zen of Technology & Scientific Discovery! (& Robots)

[Jundo]

"Samsung Electronics Puts Forward a Vision To ‘Copy and Paste’ the Brain on Neuromorphic Chips"

The future of AI looks interesting...

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-puts-forward-a-vision-to-copy-and-paste-the-brain-on-neuromorphic-chips

Gassho
Sat

So, will our phones someday be "sentient beings?" MU!

Gassho, J

STLah

[Jundo]

There was a time that I could have walked from Japan to New Mexico. When I went to visit Shinshi this summer, I just flew and drove.

(Now, who says that America was "discovered" in 1492??)

Fossilized footprints show humans made it to North America much earlier than first thought

North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when that started is a topic that has divided archaeologists.

The commonly held view is that people arrived in North America from Asia via Beringia, a land bridge that once connected the two continents, at the end of the Ice Age around 13,000 to 16,000 years ago. But more recent -- and some contested -- discoveries have suggested humans might have been in North America earlier.

Now, researchers studying fossilized human footprints in New Mexico say they have the first unequivocal evidence that humans were in North America at least 23,000 years ago.

...Bennett and his colleagues were able to accurately date 61 footprints by radiocarbon dating layers of aquatic plant seeds that had been preserved above and below them. The prints, which were discovered in the Tularosa Basin in White Sands National Park, were made 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, the researchers found.

https://us.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americ...scn/index.html

They walked all that way ... but no shoes!



Gassho, J

STLah

[Inshin]

"Samsung Electronics Puts Forward a Vision To ‘Copy and Paste’ the Brain on Neuromorphic Chips"

The future of AI looks interesting...

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-puts-forward-a-vision-to-copy-and-paste-the-brain-on-neuromorphic-chips

Gassho
Sat

[Inshin]

I'll just eat my toast
Gassho
Sat

[Jundo]

"Our world and the self are constructions of the brain, a pioneering neuroscientist argues."

Anyone had a go at this book?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...droidApp_Other

Only excerpts, the book is on its way ...

But the basic premise is so common sense, so much in harmony with "Buddhism 101," that there is little to doubt. You, Inshin, Jakuden and pretty much all the rest of the human race seem to share a similar experience of the world, with many shared assumptions, because we are all human beings with similar brains, taught to experience the world with similar ideas and language concepts. For example: Today I fixed our "toaster" in the kitchen, but there is no "toaster" in the universe (sorry Plato and Aristotle) absent our having come to associate, in our shared language and conventions, a certain configuration of atoms that processes electricity and heat a certain way, into something that makes, out of other molecules, that which we call "toast." The "toaster" exists as much between our ears as it does as something outside. We may not determine the atoms or their configuration (talk to the quantum physicists about that, however) except to the extent an engineer designs and builds the thing, but we make "toasters" and "toast" between our ears.

We just don't realize, usually, the extent to which we do so. We just all, mutually, are thinking there are actually "toasters" because we share this common dream made of common ideas and conventions.

Now, expand from toasters to the whole kitchen, the whole house, the town, country and planet ... the universe ...

I believe that this fellow uses the analogy of the "file" icon that appears on your computer desktop. The universe is always revealed to us as "icons" instead of the much more complex and hidden processes that we have no need to fully see or witness. Actually, there is no "file" there, but clicking on it commences a serious of transactions of 0s and 1s in the motherboard that cause some software process to proceed. Likewise "toaster" is a kind of semi-fictional icon we "click" for a whole series of physical and chemical molecular changes that, when activated, eventually result in some tasty calories and nutrients fueling our cells.

Gassho, J

STLah

Sorry to have run long