Theory of consciousness, models, research, control.
Recently, the company I worked for was acquired by another company, and the new owner decided to close Denver office. Suddenly, I had to face the unpleasant necessity to sell myself on the job market again. Last time I did it five years ago and, since then, the programming job landscape has changed. The most […]
Reading about the research into the human life span extension is fascinating. One of the researches – Aubrey De Grey from Cambridge University – estimates that in 25 years from now, people will start living 1,000 years and more. By the way, De Grey is also an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics […]
For quite awhile, we are already connected via the internet and multitudes of communication devices, so the idea of connection straight between brains comes naturally. But the progress of the implementation is staggering. It is actually already here. Boy, I am looking forward to stop writing you and starting just thinking together! On July 9, […]
Big thanks to Volodia Timofeev who responded to my previous blog Elephant Inside by sending me pictures of Kopeikin’s paintings with elephants. One of my readers told me that the animal inside is independent only as long as the task at hand is not aligned with our main purpose in life. Because, as soon as […]
It is almost 12,000 years old. Those who visited the site reported unforgettable experience. When I look at the images, curved on the pillars, I cannot avoid the feeling that it was done by a very talented contemporary artist. Not that I have superiority complex over ancient civilizations. Far from it. I think the humanity […]
Emotions help, but should not control us. Recently, we have adjusted our understanding of the role of our emotions and the extent to which we can consider ourselves to be rational beings in certain circumstances
What the word “contradictions” is associated with? Something negative, correct? Oxford Thesaurus lists the following synonyms for contradiction: conflict, clash, disagreement, opposition, inconsistency, mismatch, and variance. It used to have a negative connotation for me too. But later it evolved due to my activity as a scientist. In the science, as you know, a contradiction […]
The dream, that you are behind the train and cannot catch up with it, familiar to many. A group provides for the identification of the individual. How can a teenager (and actually many adults as well) answer the question, who are you?