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QUANTUM BRAINS. “Motivated by the potential similarities between the underlying mechanisms of the enhanced memory storage capacity in black holes and in brain networks, we construct an artificial quantum neural network based on gravity‐like synaptic connections and a symmetry structure that allows to describe the network in terms of geometry of a d‐dimensional space.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER BOLD IDEA. “Black Holes as Brains: Neural Networks with Area Law Entropy, by Gia Dvali.” https://lnkd.in/gdGJbxD View in LinkedIn

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ALTERNATIVE CONFIRMATION. “To confirm the involvement of the sweet taste receptor TAS1R2/TAS1R3 in D2O signaling we performed functional calcium mobilization assays using HEK 293 FlpIn T-Rex cells heterologously expressing both required TAS1R subunits as well as the chimeric G protein Gα15Gi343.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

BLIND MAN’S BUFF. “We’re playing Russian roulette, with a gun pointed at our children, with five bullets instead of just one in the chamber, and we go on pulling the trigger until it goes off. That’s basically what climate and nature breakdown are.” https://lnkd.in/gNpHt_C View in LinkedIn

CONCLUSION. “In an additional experiment, the sweetness of pure D2O was scored significantly higher than that of D2O + 0.9 mM lactisole solution (p = 0.0003), while the same amount of lactisole had no effect on the perception of sweetness of H2O that served as control (Fig. 4b). These results suggest that D2O elicits sweetness via the TAS1R2/TAS1R3 sweet taste receptor.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

THIS DIFFICULT PAPER is a sampling of the extraordinary thinking that physicists studying complexity and black holes are engaged in, and how purely mathematical and logical operations are being used to dissect the possibilities within such an inscrutable object. An exceptionally interesting and challenging paper. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201500092?casa_token=8OO3b1OY4e4AAAAA%3ARqriAgTwtxnvsxl09CqnNy79m7l4ye7ZrkZxcLtObB9kHsTwYgzBuIV2X-xXQ7ezoR6VQPfQLCS-vnI View in LinkedIn

TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS. “This was first explored by combining water samples with lactisole as an established TAS1R2/TAS1R3 inhibitor. Using the two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) method, in which the participant must choose between two samples, 18 out of 25 panelists chose pure D2O as sweeter than D2O + 0.9 mM lactisole solution (p 

“FIREWALLS, like reversals of the second law, can occur in one of two ways; either by the action of an extremely complex operation needed to locally reverse the arrow of time, or by bottling up the system for a classical recurrence time. Temporary firewalls can also form if black holes are formed over long time periods.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201500092?casa_token=8OO3b1OY4e4AAAAA%3ARqriAgTwtxnvsxl09CqnNy79m7l4ye7ZrkZxcLtObB9kHsTwYgzBuIV2X-xXQ7ezoR6VQPfQLCS-vnI View in LinkedIn

THE HYPOTHESIS. “The chemical dissimilarity of D2O from sugars and other sweeteners raises the question whether the effect we observed in human subjects is mediated by TAS1R2/TAS1R3, which is the major receptor for sweet taste.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn