We know the things that we know. That knowledge may seem a lot to us. Yet, that knowledge of known knowns becomes very small when we start considering (i) the things we know that we don't know (eg, most foreign languages), and/or (ii) the things we don't even know that we don't know these (no example - by definition). There's also a category of things we don't know...
On 30 October 1938, a live radio show caused panic amongst its listeners (Wiki). That event played an adaptation of The War of the Worlds, an 1898 novel by H. G. Wells, which was directed by future filmmaker Orson Welles. On 25 June 2021, the US government released a highly anticipated report on UFOs (eg, BBC). This time there was no commotion - let alone...
Washington Post title: For some Navy pilots, UFO sightings were an ordinary event: ‘Every day for at least a couple years’ By: Reis Thebault Date: 18 May 2021 "When the Navy pilot first spotted the strange object hovering in restricted airspace off the Atlantic Coast, he was stunned — no exhaust plume, no visible engine and all the makings of something...
View Post Suppose, just suppose, that speed would be unlimited. Would geography or space then still matter? Both would just be travel coordinates. Space is only relevant because speed limits increase the use of time. Essentially, space is a distance in time and speed defines its amount of time. In this Aeon interview, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin states that...
I've already written ten blogs on the complexity bias (my blogs). Yet, this topic is still fascinating me. Future "humans" will be very different than us. I've nicknamed them humanoid sapiens (my blogs). I suppose our descendants will be a mix of human consciousness and replaceable body parts (eg, transhumanism). Something like a robot with a human face (eg,...
I've written several blogs about the "infinity of human stupidity", a paraphrase of a quote by Albert Einstein. Wednesday night, I suddenly wondered why humans consider themselves as intelligent. I had to write it down immediately as that thought was already trying to vanish. Language was my first answer and then a very different answer emerged.The collective...
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