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Reverse engineering of the human brain

October 23rd, 2008 - Posted in mathematics, science, special | 3 Comments »

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More or less all as kids we enjoyed disassemble objects, moved by curiosity and armed with a screwdriver past the hour to look into things trying to understand the operation. This ability is called reverse engineering, requires understanding the logic and mathematical knowledge, no other life forms in addition to human beings able to use it. The exponential growth of scientific knowledge has allowed us over time to disassemble building ever more complex, even today we know what's inside an atom, what are the laws that govern it.

Thanks to "push" of progress in medical and military for decades, we can peek inside one of the most complex machines designed by the brain. The brain is the computer center available to most forms of life evolved, fueled by electrical impulses deals dell'eleborazione of information coming from outside. Its structure is not particularly complex, monkeys are divided into two hemispheres, each hemisphere contains N areas each with its own specific task, the loss of an area does not affect the operation of the system the core is made of mirror neurons. This jewel of engineering can produce electricity needed for its operation simply by combining oxygen and sugar, disperses very little heat but needs a constant temperature to function perfectly.

The scientific community agrees on one thing: to understand the functioning of the brain is among the most dangerous things we do. The hypothesis most likely to get even prophesy the gradual disappearance of homo sapiens, successful of singularity technology by 2050.

For the moment the areas of development are more advanced than the vision bionics and control implants, cybernetic eyes are now able to talk to the brain and restore sight to those who lost, artificial limbs directly controlled by the nervous system patient can return normal life to those who have suffered amputations.

The scientists fear more than anything else concerns the strengthening of mirror neurons (the central processor), an increase in computing power, the arrival of cybernetics external memories, all steps that would lead to the birth of a new species. However one should be our choice not an extinction (the same thing that they thought the monkeys a few thousand years ago?), In each case the first to earn the compliments should be good Nietzsche could have understood the mechanism with a lot advance .

"Man is a rope suspended between the animal and the super-man, a rope above the 'abyss'

Kurzweil: machine man born in 2029

Cybernetic eye (Article PDF)





Interview with Adolf Hitler

October 13th, 2008 - Posted in filosofeggiando, information, mathematics, politics, special, history, video | 5 Comments »

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The mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi public in 2005 this imaginary interview to the famous dictator, to whom the Board has not yet read it. There is no revisionism in these lines, the goal is the author highlight the subtle relativism afflicting modern society.

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20 1889, and devoted his life to the creation of politically exposed in 1924 in Mein Kampf, "My Battle", written in prison after a failed attempt of coup d'etat. His reign of terror could legally begin in 1933, thanks to 44% of the votes of the National Socialist Party, and 8% of the Nationalist Party (20.5 million in total), obtained in the elections: a demonstration of the paradox that a dictator can also get to power democratically .

The expansion of the Third Reich began in 1938 with the annexation of Austria, and reached its maximum extension from North Cape to the Sahara, and from Normandy to the Caspian. The contraction began in 1942 with the defeat of Stalingrad and El Alamein, and ended on 9 May 1945 with the entry of the Russians in Berlin. Shortly before, on April 30, Hitler had killed with a shot gun in his bunker.

Sixty years later, while the world is organizing a Fourth Reich ranging from the United States to the Mediterranean, we spoke of the bloody Third vegetarian who has commanded for twelve years.

Furer, after the end of the Second World War his name has become synonymous with evil. What do you think?

History is always written by the victors, and the well is what is on their side. If we had won we would be a synonym for evil became the names of Churchill and Roosevelt.

Do you not think that there are objective reasons, besides the defeat? Stalin war was won, yet even his name has become synonymous with evil.

Millions of people have not thought so, on Stalin, before and after the war: how many Russians have cried when he died? I'm afraid you do not know much nor Stalinism, or Nazism, apart from what Ammann Ministries of Propaganda, his country and what the boss.

Ministries of Propaganda? And what would be our Goebbels?

To speak in terms that you can understand, if we had inhuman totalitarianism of the 1984 Orwell, yours is now totalitarianism with a human face of the new World of Huxley. Its Ministries of Propaganda are therefore cinema and television: If you want to find the new Goebbels, among them trying Spielberg and Zeffirelli, or between Murdoch and Berlusconi.

What he wanted to suggest, among other things, with that country that commands us? "What Italy would be a colony of the United States?

It is not, perhaps? Since you were occupied in 1944, there are more liberated. To date there are 125 bases and 35,000 U.S. troops in Italy: is this independence? In Germany, then we are even worse. What you call liberation, was only for the military to another, less produced but no less effective.

Will not deny, however, that Nazism was guilty of crimes against humanity never before seen.

Ah, yes? And what?

First, the extermination of six million Jews.

Do not say jerks. My model for solving the Jewish problem was the way in which the United States had resolved a similar problem in India: a scientific and systematic genocide of eighteen million native who lived in North America. How many Indians remain in the United States today? A few hundred, kept in reserve as the bison. And how many Jews remain in the world? Million, and have even been a whole for them, which, among other things, is showing that he had learned our lesson on how to deal with ethnic minorities.

She is without a God!

Without the God of the Jews, perhaps. But you had not perhaps been Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, saying that "all the murderers of the Holocaust were Christians, and the Nazi not appeared out of nowhere, but had deep roots in a tradition inseparable from the past of Christian Europe "? Not without reason my SS wore wrote Gott mit uns on the belt buckle.

The Church certainly do not think so!

But if, when Rolf Hochhuth broke the spell with the vicar in 1963, there is talk that the silence of Pius XII against what you call Holocaust! And then, she has not read my Mein Kampf, which I imagine is not easy to find in your library: If he had done, but these countries the project for the triumph of Nazism was modeled on the tenacious adherence to dogma and on fanatica intolerance that characterized the history of the Catholic Church.

In any case, be enough to condemn the contempt for human life of innocent civilians who have proved during the war.

This is to go tell the people of Hamburg and Dresden, which have poured the "fire storms" that have killed one million. Or those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three hundred thousand of whom were incinerated by two atomic bombs: none propaganda can erase the fact that the "bad" Nazis did not build these weapons of mass destruction, while the "good" the United States have not only built, but use!

At least, do not want to deny his abhorrent political eugenics.

Why should I ever deny it? It was a means to achieve the purity of the breed. But I do not understand what is abhorrent to: my Act of 1933, for the prevention of hereditary defects, was explicitly based on the U.S. model of Harry Laughlin, who gave us a reason why an honorary degree in 1936 in Heidelberg. I know you, that the first law for the sterilization of criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists "was promulgated in 1907 dall'Indiana? What was later imitated by some thirty U.S. states, and in 1927 declared constitutional by the Supreme Court? That in the'30s were sterilized 60,000 individuals in the United States, half of them in California alone? And that in the'50s, after the war, 50,000 homosexuals were castrated?

Do not want to say that the United States, the melting pot, are a racist country!

She is a naive! According to her, against what Martin Luther King showed, even in the'60s? And who wrote The passage of the Great Race in 1916?

Who?

Madison Grant, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. When the book was translated into German, the Mandai an enthusiastic letter, of which he was very pleased. And speaking of Roosevelt, do not forget that Pierre van der Berghe, a scholar of race, put together with me and Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of 'South African apartheid, racism in the Trinity of the twentieth century.

At this rate, come to say that the United States were also a Nazi!

The United States could not have followed the Nazis because they preceded and inspired. Basically, we wanted either one: how singing my SS, Morgen die ganze Welt. Unfortunately, the world was almost entirely in the hands of colonial powers, and we take away by force. The "evil" of which we have accused was all here: they want to do what they had done to others. We have failed, but the U.S. is carrying out what was our real project: the global domain (military , Political and economic) of the planet.

E 'This, then, the legacy of Nazism?

He said Otto Dietrich zur Linde, the day before his execution, issued in an Borges of Argentina, was published under the title Deutsches Requiem: Nazism was an ideology as well, that the only way to defeat was to embrace it. We did not want violence dominate the world, and our aim has been fully achieved. We have lived and died not in vain.

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Logos

October 1st, 2008 - Posted in mathematics, science, video | 6 Comments »

Slow-motion pretty much shows that the mathematical structure produced by a steel ball falling in the sand. The deep bond that binds our reality mathematics is too often underestimated, the majority of people prefer to take refuge in simple answers, models illogical that are good for everyone. By now everyone knows that under our planet there is no Atlas hard to sustain the burden with the sweat of the front, however, still views the world rather ridiculous compared to the subtlety of logic.

The story of Logos is very old, anticipates the legends related to Christianity 520 years but in reality has little to do with the novels. To explain in the simplest way possible what is necessary to first understand who they are human beings. Wishing to avoid unnecessary philosophical sproloqui can safely say that homo sapiens is an animal, all shaved and perfumed but always part of the fauna. Having said that the remains undeniable difference between a homo sapiens and any other animal, it is clear that mankind has something more, what it is not clear to many is whether this "surplus" derives from the resemblance to a god or the ability to understand math. Only those who know mathematics can make music, only those who know mathematics can go into space, only those who know mathematics can evolve in a way so fast in 200 years to double its life cycle. Human beings are a lot with technology, according to scientists dispogono of "computing power" from about 15,000 years, although this trend with a discontinuous and in the process of acceleration (Kurzweil's Law), all thanks to mathematics.

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It is not easy to determine who was the first human being to realize the existence of Logos, the starting point is perhaps to be found in Pythagoras and his school.

"The whole world is harmony and number"

Pythagoras unfortunately did not have a good opinion of the people, the school pitagorica required that the lessons remain secret and the oral tradition was privileged, not wrote virtually nothing, some historians have argued that Pythagoras become the power of mathematics decided to keep secret cult to prevent mankind blinded by the power coming to make a bad use (without anything mathematics military technology). Worshiped odd numbers (finite, closed, perfect) and 10 considered as sacred (his depiction points for a draw was the famous "tetraktys"). They were the subject of numerous attacks of the political class and forced to disperse brought knowledge with them.

Galileo Galilei had pretty clear ideas about the forces that surrounded the church not liked:

"The philosophy is written in this great book that we are continually open before our eyes, but we can not think before they learn to mean the language and know the characters, or what is written. He is written in language mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which means it is impossible to understand human speech, without them is a wandering in vain for a dark laberinto. "

Leonardo DaVinci instead was the first to give a practical demonstration of the existence of the "structure" of Logos in nature, with brilliant mind and his hand as the only genius anticipated by several centuries studies in those areas where we launch, had understood that all the "science" were linked by a single logic, he left traces everywhere especially in designs but also in a few sentences scattered codes:

"I do not see who is not in my mathematical principles"

"Nobody is in effect nature sanza reason, plan to reason and you do not need experience."

"Nature is obliged by virtue of his law, which she infused lives."

"The proportion not only in numbers and measures fia found, but etiam on in the sounds, weights, times and locations, and 'n enhances whatever it is."

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I could go on but I think they have reached the goal of these things today are written many books but still do not have the necessary prominence to science, it is easier to replace old clothes cute white idiocy that shoot from a balcony, does not matter if people take vaneggi senile for scientific truth, indeed perhaps the goal is just that today as centuries ago.

The inspiration for this article came from the phrase that Walter Veltroni spoke yesterday at the conference on "secularism 'in Italy - Democracy and religion":

"Religion can not 'be relegated to a private space: you can not' think of leaving it outside the door"

Ualter people are tired of being taken to the anus imaginary friends try to understand, the church no longer controls 99.9% of like 60 years ago, is consumed unnecessary language licking!





All die!

September 9th, 2008 - Posted in mathematics, science, special | 3 Comments »

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Tomorrow, as we all well know this corrupt world will end. The crowds of CERN initiative adopted by Studio Open "the greatest experiment of mankind" could swallow the earth and put an end once and for all the capture of monkeys spelacchiate. I am genuinely puzzled, still three months missing at the end of the calendar Santarelli and more than three years for the Maya, as absurd boiata have invented this time?

But these days the media has emerged a new "theory" of physics that postulates as follows: from a clash of infinitely small quantities of matter can generate a breakthrough of the time, exactly what happens when a star explodes. I wonder if we need a scientific adviser to understand that in the sentence above is something deeply irrational. To create a black hole requires a huge mass that collapses into a very small space, creating a hole mass indefinite. The gravitational attraction of that mass is likely to suck everything, even light. What will tomorrow at CERN has nothing to do with a black hole, from tomorrow begin experiments for the study of the Higgs boson (also called "God particle"), which in theory should be the structure of elementary ' universe. To do this, scientists will have to clash atoms within the 'LHC (Large Hadron Collider), enough to photograph the dynamics of the collision to identify the particle. The paranoia of these days flutteringly probably derives the high speed collision request from the process, however, considered this impact velocity lower than that solar particles have when they arrive on earth.

You can follow live the end of the world sneer while in the darkness of your room / office tomorrow from here, use your good last hours.





Gradual zoom up all'atomo

August 31st, 2008 - Posted in mathematics, science, video | 5 Comments »
One of the most useful video I have ever seen, a user has loaded on dailymotion some progressive so powerful magnification of up to the atomic structure of the elements. The movies come from an electron microscope, the profile of the user are also available cement, human hair and dozens of other materials all to see.




The worst job in the world?

August 11th, 2008 - Posted in mathematics, science, special | 1 Comment »

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Usual speeches night with friends during the warm evenings of mid-August, jump out of the hat the argument: "what's the worst job ever?". The conversation soon takes a dark turn and the idea falls on the first gas station, the motivation of petrol fumes are carcinogenic. The second sull'operaio construction, poor security conditions. The third unexpectedly on the baker, is said to problems of "biorhythms" ... The fourth option verges already nell'inpubblicabile and then I will stop here. I do not know what could be the worst in the world, is rather subjective. Let's say you wanted to see the issue in the broader context can be found in the figure of the philosopher a nice job of M ... The philosopher is one of the rarest species, when they created two good size in a century has been lucky. As the mathematicians have a single interest: the truth. The first try in the numbers, the second in the words. Both to achieve the goal agognato mental efforts are impressive, frequent stories of those who have lost even the right. The big difference between the two sciences lies in the proof, however, recognition of their work in short. For a mathematician is not a problem to prove his formula while the philosopher is almost always impossible to prove his theory. The success story is often a mathematician who came to glory in life, a philosopher's speech is totally different:

  • Come unanimously regarded as a madman
  • That conglomerate of ignorance that called "mass" you do not understand, recalls a point
  • You will find in the attack and models rooted in people, they do not like it
  • You might notice that they belong to the species most vicious and violent on the planet
  • Efforts mentally that you can get to "consumers" the brain
  • As your knowledge in a vicious circle will also increase your sense of ignorance
  • If you were born in ancient greece you heart, but stop talking to plants and animals
  • If you were born before 1400 look to your friends, not like you ... will try to terminate / kill
  • If you were born before 1700 eye to the church, not like you try to burn ...
  • If you were born before 2000 eye to the state, not like you try to kill you ...

After cotanta life if you were really good but bravo 100/200 have to wait years after your death, someone will be able to understand the meaning of what you wrote and perhaps will say that you were a universal genius, you come in history. Despite that few will want to read your works, too complex, "then what is philosophy?" Will say ... well, beautiful work of M certainly, but perhaps knowing that he had found some 'of that famous truth, be been helpful to the whole, perhaps one pays more ...





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