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Granting human rights to a computer would degrade human dignity. For instance, when Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot called Sophia, human women, including feminist scholars, objected, noting that the robot was given more rights than many Saudi women have.
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) in Antarctic detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” Last week, a group of researchers posted a new theory about the rays measured by ANITA. The group, led by Pennsylvania State University physicist Derek Fox, suggests ANITA may have found evidence of a particle that lies completely outside of the Standard Model of physics.
Earlier this year, scientists from New York and Sweden published the results of their sweeping study of 5 million DNA barcodes from about 100,000 different animal species. As reported by phys.org, the results are “sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about how evolution unfolds.” In addition to a shocking absence of genetic diversity, the authors were stunned to conclude that about 9 out of every 10 species on Earth appear to have come into being at about the same time, apparently sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Study co-author David Thaler said of the findings, “This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could.” One unavoidable possibility these results raise is articulated in the phys.org report, which asks, “Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?”
New research sheds light on how people decide whether behavior is good or bad, moral or immoral. The findings could serve as a framework for informing the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Is your own EMF (electro-magnetic frequency) causing things to happen? Editor’s Note: Higher Journeys Several years ago, I noticed as my husband stood in the breezeway between my laptop in the kitchen and the router in our family room, that the laptop would suddenly lose its wireless connection. When he moved his position, the connection re-established. […]
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Scientists report that humans might be quick to judge, but we may have also evolved to be quick to forgive. A recent study found that when assessing the moral character of others, people cling to good impressions but readily adjust their opinions about those who have behaved badly, according to new research.
The suspense is over: Two tiny hopping robots have successfully landed on an asteroid called Ryugu — and they’ve even sent back some wild images from their new home.
Society has encouraged people to be more physically active, yet we are actually becoming less active. A new study offers a possible explanation: Our brains may be innately attracted to sedentary behavior. Electroencephalograms showed that test subjects had to summon extra brain resources when trying to avoid physical inactivity.
Technology is upending the world. Accelerating technologies are giving us new construction kits for our reality. Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology are the three overlapping revolutions that will change what it means to be human. The end of aging, a revolution in healthcare, digital immortality, an intelligence explosion… we can barely begin to imagine what’s coming. But here is a meditation, a look at where we might we heading by Jason Silva.
Like Facebook (and the Chinese Communist Party) before it, Apple is now assigning users of its products a “trust” score that is based on users’ call and email habits, Anti-Media reports.
The idea that we live in a holographic universe that uses a form of quantum “computer code” to create the physical reality is not a new idea. In the 1940s, some physicists suggested that we live in a “computer generated” universe.
It is very important for us to listen intently. Listening is the first step, after which we will embark on a very indescribable yet gratifying journey, in the search for pristine truth, divinity and God. The way forward is by seeking out transpersonal experiences, because God is in the “Transpersonal.”
Watch mulitiple live beach cams of Hurricane Florence on the North Carolina coast.
Did you know that the human heart is the organ that generates the strongest electromagnetic field of any organ of the human body? In fact, the electromagnetic field of your heart can be measured up to a few feet away from your body. Furthermore, this energy field changes in relation to your emotions. One thing you should know about electromagnetic field is that every organ and cell in your body generate an energy field.
Want to see Einstein’s most famous theory in every day life? Read this.
