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CREATIVE MACHINES. “And suddenly we noticed that one of the neurons was tracking faces. It was tracking our faces as we were moving around. Now, the spooky thing about this is that we never trained the system to recognize human faces and yet, somehow, it learned to do that. Even though these robots are very simple, we can see that something else is going on there. It is not just programming.” (Professor Hod Lipson). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1_14 View in LinkedIn

QED. “We conclude that a dark sector indeed exists in the Universe!” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

THE IMPLICATION. “Thus, there must be other kinds of matter/energy with which the Universe can map out its spacetime geometry to a finer spatial accuracy than is possible with the use of conventional ordinary matter.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

READ CAREFULLY. “Our analysis of the Salecker-Wigner type of gedanken experiments and implied by the holographic principle: it is now apparent that ordinary matter contains only an amount of information dense enough to map out spacetime at a level with much coarser spatial resolution.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

EINSTEIN’S FUDGE FACTOR. “Alternatively one can interpret these long-wavelength quanta as constituents of dark energy, contributing a more or less uniformly distributed cosmic energy density and hence acting as a dynamical effective cosmological constant.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

MACRO = MICRO. “Thus intriguingly, the large-scale physics of dark energy is intimately connected to the small-scale physics of spacetime foam.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE concerns the phenomenon of emergence. “The phrase “more is different” was coined by PW Anderson in 1972, and sums up emergent phenomena, which occur when things scale to large numbers and transition into complex systems with new laws, such as the behavior of bird flocking, fish shoals, ripples in sand; new properties appear which are not present in their constituent parts. https://medium.com/sfi-30-foundations-frontiers/emergence-a-unifying-theme-for-21st-century-science-4324ac0f951e#:~:text=Examples%20of%20emergent%20behavior%20are,and%20planets%2C%20the%20evolution%20of View in LinkedIn

CONTESTED SUBJECT. “A distinctively controversial topic, research on emergence has been characterised by differing assumptions and positions — explicit and implicit — about its nature and role within science.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

Water towers do not have to be utilitarian eyesores as shown in this magnificent tower in the Barcelona waterfront. View in LinkedIn

BROAD APPLICABILITY. “Emergence is a profound subject that straddles many scientific disciplines, including the formation of galaxies and how consciousness arises from the collective activity of neurons. Despite the broad interest that exists on this concept, the study of emergence has suffered from a lack of formalisms that could be used to guide discussions and advance theories.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn