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And that an analysis of decades of such studies showed stronger statistical results than the highly publicized “proof” of the existence of the Higgs boson particle (a groundbreaking finding in physics that led to the winning of a Nobel Prize).
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
It doesn’t seem particularly compelling. One source of evidence is work by Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist who has dissolved the brains of many creatures to determine how many neurons are present. She’s found a lot of interesting scaling laws. She has a paper discussing the human brain as a scaled-up primate brain.60 Across a wide variety
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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The “laws” of physics are not universal, because on small scales things behave differently from the way they do in the everyday world. Energy can express itself either as a wave or a particle, and sometimes as both. The consciousness of the observer determines how energy will behave.
Gregg Braden • The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief
It is only the strong quantum interference between the various paths taken by charged particles in parallel universes that prevents such catastrophes and makes solid matter possible.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
