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Who or what is conscious? How does it function? Why do we think, and how? Scientist Stuart Hameroff of the…
BY LAMRE AUGUST 1, 2022 NO RESPONSES.
Who or what is conscious? How does it function? Why do we think, and how? Scientist Stuart Hameroff of the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Research recently proposed a ground-breaking idea that is so compelling and beautiful that it really seems to resolve the “mystery of the millennia.”
An extraordinarily intricate occurrence known as a “quantum collapse” takes place in the brain, and as a result, an idea is produced. However, it later becomes out that the brain is a sort of universe analog. Alternately, a quantum computer produced by nature that can mentally communicate with every location in the cosmos and any civilisation, even those on the edge of the Galaxy.
The issue of consciousness has been attacked from two directions by science and philosophy. Science was searching for a physical form of mind, like a neuron. It turns out that awareness likewise vanishes with the death of the brain.
Philosophy distinguished “thinking” from the brain and described it as either a “aura” around a person’s head or as an ether loaded with information (Vladimir Vernadsky and his noosphere). However, studies on psychics did not produce a definite conclusion: mediums occasionally displayed astounding results, but frequently they were powerless, and many also turned out to be magicians.
Strangely, quantum mechanics remained uninvolved during this entire period. It is odd since it is the one that has “awareness” from the beginning and is the one that functions in that way. Let’s examine this more closely.
The concept of quantum mechanics first emerged at the turn of the 20th century. This was developed collectively, as opposed to Albert Einstein who was the sole author of the theory of relativity. Despite its “weirdness,” it quickly and permanently formed the foundation of physics since it describes the world around us so well.
According to quantum physics, matter and energy often exist in an undefined state. Light is therefore both a wave and a collection of particles (photons). However, as soon as an observer (a human) steps in, matter is “decided”; for instance, light may either become a wave or a particle depending on what is “anticipated” of it.
The wave function has collapsed in this instance (the term is unfortunate, but everyone is used to it). According to radical scientists, the world doesn’t even exist until we look at it. Others contend that everything in the universe possesses awareness and acts as a “observer”; this includes both wood and stone.
Despite the evident peculiarity, it is simple to see the collapse of the wave function in practice, which is even demonstrated in advanced physics classes in high schools. Thus, there is no question.
But what precisely is it about awareness that modifies the cosmos? Why does the observer matter so much? The first person to hypothesize that consciousness has a quantum component is the scientist and mathematician Roger Penrose of Oxford, a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Hameroff has been using Penrose for thirty years and is eager to fully comprehend how it operates. The quantum theory of consciousness is, in reality, somewhat… unscientific and permits telepathy, mind reading, connection with the spirits of ancestors and an ancient oak, in other words, everything that mystics partake in.
And this is apparently undesirable since mysticism makes no reason. You must provide a scientific justification for your hypotheses if they are to be believed. What he did is as follows.
Every particle in the cosmos, Penrose concluded, is nothing more than a bend in Einstein’s space-time. When such a “bubble” or curvature collapses, quantum collapse takes place and awareness is revealed.
However, in his perspective, meaning and memory could not be created because awareness was generated as though spontaneously. Undoubtedly, the cosmos was “thinking,” but it was “thinking” in the manner of a young child watching the lesson outside the window.
According to Hameroff, brain neurons may arrange these space-time bubbles so that the pops they produce resemble music. This music evokes memories, thoughts, and knowledge. Almost the same notion was expressed by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras in the sixth century BC. Why did he know that? Leave this question unanswered.
Skepticism greeted Hameroff’s theory: Can quantum transitions occur within a warm and humid brain? The quantum computers that exist now work at extremely low temperatures in a sterile environment. Hameroff was now able to dispel any uncertainties. And this is what he receives.
Consciousness is light itself. There once was a theory that a conscious observer might “compel” matter to make a choice. Contrary to popular belief, the quantum shift really creates awareness today.
“In ancient cultures, awareness was described as light. Luminous “halos” or auras were frequently used to portray religious figures. Hindu deities featuring brilliant blue skin. According to Hameroff’s most recent essay, persons who have “awakened to the truth” are considered to be “enlightened ones” in various civilizations.
What chemical processes and substances are involved in the “production” of consciousness? How does this occur at the level of photons, atoms, molecules, and neurons? Hameroff provided a comprehensive analysis.
His idea leads to the most significant conclusion: consciousness existed before life.
“Traditional science and philosophy contend that awareness first appeared at some time throughout the course of evolution, maybe not long after the development of the brain and nervous system. However, panpsychism, Eastern spiritual traditions, and Roger Penrose’s theory of objective reduction all imply that awareness existed before life, according to Hameroff.
And it turned out that these traditions were accurate (again, how did the ancients know?). The early cosmos, which was a megamind and was illuminated by the Big Bang, is described in great detail by Hameroff. But after a while, the material turned murky, and I fell asleep. Complex molecules started to form after it was over. They enabled the Universe to “think” more accurately and clearly.
In light of the fact that awareness is a direct consequence of quantum physics and relativity, the entire cosmos is thus sentient. Man is “more aware” than stone only inasmuch as the brain’s neurons provide a more conducive environment for quantum transition than either the crystalline structure of stone or the fibers in wood, but man is by no means the first or even the first thinking being.
We activate (not “we,” it activates itself) a quantum transition that connects us to any location in the universe and to every sophisticated mind that has ever been simply by thinking anything.
The universe and we are one and the same
Thing is simple. It’s coz me is the main character, all outside my mind or conscious is a supporting role.
When I am interacting with outside(conscious mind), I am leading my life and it creates an illusion of time. All the cause effects rules have been existing, just like the double slits experiment, all the waveform are existing, when there is a conscious mind to lead a time line, it will collapse suddenly by the person.
So the universe is a one person’s universe, it’s my universe. Everyone has his or her universe.
The Ageless Wisdom teaches that this is the reality - that time does not exist outside the human brain - that the passage of "time" is merely the serial apprehension of sense data in by the brain.
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A Harvard scientist has an interesting theory as to how our universe was formed: in a laboratory by higher "class" of lifeform.
Avi Loeb, bestselling author and the former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, penned an op-ed in Scientific American this week positing that the universe could have been formed in a lab by an "advanced technological civilization." If true, he said the origin story would unify the religious idea of a creator with the secular idea of quantum gravity.
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Chinese Rocket Officially Plummeting Down to Earth "Since our universe has a flat geometry with a zero net energy, an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling," Loeb wrote. Class A Civilization One of the more interesting ideas posited in an article chock full of them is the civilization classification system. Loeb said that as a low-level technological civilization, humans are class C (or a civilization dependent on its host star).
If and when our technology progresses to the point where we can become independent of the Sun, we’d be class B. If we can create our own baby universes in a laboratory (like our theoretical creators) we’d be class A.
Of course, there’s a wide number of things in our way — the biggest hurdle being our inability to create a "large enough density of dark energy within a small region," said Loeb. However, if and when we do ever get there, we’d be able to join our theoretical creators in class A!
In any case, the theory is compelling, humbling, and a little bit frightening as well. If Loeb’s past theories are also to be believed, we’re likely not the only ones out there gunning for class A status either.
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Two hot topics, two areas of huge potential for businesses. That is how NFTs and the metaverse can be described. While these concepts have generated a lot of media buzz, headlines and interest, they have created just as many questions.
With many businesses still trying to grasp what these things mean and what their role is, I am here to give you the lowdown based on my company's experience in building these types of solutions. Strap in and prepare to navigate the quirky and promising world of NFTs and the metaverse.
Explaining The Terminology
A solid grasp of the two concepts is crucial for taking advantage of their strengths.
• The metaverse. This is a theoretical concept of a digital 3-D world that you enter via a virtual reality headset. In this virtual world, you have a "body" (avatar) that you can customize, a home to fill with the stuff you like and hundreds of spaces to visit. You can interact with other users, do work, play games and basically perform most of the activities that you do in everyday life.
MORE FROMFORBES ADVISOR Best Tax Software Of 2022 Best Tax Software For The Self-Employed Of 2022 Income Tax Calculator: Estimate Your Taxes The metaverse is useful because it greatly reduces our need to travel and use physical resources. In a 3-D world, we can visualize and interact with any object without putting in much effort and time. We can cycle between activities, chats, locations and data with a simple gesture. Instead of switching between apps and a web browser, everything is connected and accessible in this digital world.
• NFTs. These are nonfungible tokens — tokens that are 100% unique. You can think of them as certificates of ownership that exist on the blockchain. They are created when a digital file (commonly an image, video or GIF) is minted. This means that a certificate of ownership and originality is generated via cryptocurrency (usually Ethereum) and sold/granted to the new owner.
Revealed: Halley’s Comet Could Damage NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Telescope Next Year NFTs are useful because digital art and assets are notorious for being easy to steal and copy. While NFTs cannot stop somebody from stealing digital assets, they provide a neutral and unbiased confirmation of the designated owner. If we ever see NFTs integrated into copyright law, they may also serve as evidence against the misuse of digital goods.
NFT Uses In The Metaverse
Because NFTs are generally associated with websites and transactions that occur through web browsers, and because the metaverse is mostly VR-based, there might be some confusion about what their common ground is — and whether there is any in the first place. Thankfully, despite the relative novelty of both concepts, several companies have already found creative and fruitful ways to use both simultaneously.
VR and NFT marketplaces can appeal to many brands in various industries, and Nike is a good example. It's already dipping its toes into the metaverse with its own virtual "Nikeland" and has now acquired a studio (RTFKT) known for making NFTs of products. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before we see the two concepts meet in "Nikeworld."
For example, many museums are currently placing NFT artwork in metaverses such as Сryptovoxels, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. According to The Art Newspaper, Cryptovoxels hosts "art galleries and museums, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the FC Francisco Carolinum Linz, Austria."
This case is more easily illustrated with an example. Decentraland is a virtual territory where plots of land can be sold as NFTs, and everything is represented in 3-D. This "country" has its own cryptocurrency and is slated to enter the metaverse (make the world accessible to VR users) later in 2022.
How To Implement A Metaverse With NFTs
As you may have noticed, the metaverse is still a pretty new concept, and only a handful of companies have already built real solutions in this field that implement NFTs. Thus, if you see a use case for the combination in your business and have the resources to make it happen, you could be one of the first companies in your industry to take advantage of these two trends.
Because most companies do not have any VR developers employed on their payroll full time, we might recommend looking to work with a company that has many years of experience in building immersive apps. Companies might consider going down this road even if they have a few local developers, as they might lack platform-specific knowledge of VR software such as building with Unity and Unreal or implementing movement tracking. Knowledge of blockchain and NFT minting will also be helpful unless you want to take on these technical aspects yourself.
Hopefully, now you know the main ideas behind the two concepts and have a sense of where the market is headed. If you choose to embrace the metaverse and NFTs in your business, it could be a great chance to break away from competitors and paint your business as a future-oriented one.
we are also working on a bot with a very specific intent, just motivate students to do online exercise. Students can pick a feeling preset by system, chatbot then reply a feedback. It’s not difficult to reply based on some conditions. But we would prefer a more human reply, ie with more variety and rich in language. Is it possible to do it ?
Hi, I have a question about chatbot. I've found information how to do it generally but want few features which I'm not sure how to best achieved as I've mostly found a simple ones. EDIT (as my need is clearer ;)) 1) I'd like to create an AI chatbot, not scripted chatbot 2) I'd like it to have an intent detection 3) I'd like it to be able to get some info from conversation and use it to run other scripts 4) I can't use any ready chatbot framework or anything subscription-based and need to create algorithm by myself 5) it needs to support other languages than English 6) even if my questions sounds very basic I'm happy to learn and approach more advanced solutions where necessary
Please at least direct me with this
It will depend on the approach and technologies you used. I have been working for 2 years and a half on a complex chatbot and ended up many times in dead ends having to start over and over because of limitations of each technolgy. I ended up with an AI that consumes partially ML models to make decisions and find proper and complex responses
Przemek Rybicki probably Rasa will be enough for your use case, in my case it was not enough due to the complexity of my project but rasa is a very robust option
Przemek Rybicki you can setup flows to have some automation there, but it will not be 100%automated, machine learning is based on labeled data for training, if your chat doesn't understand what a user is saying how will it improve without human intervention? But you can create flows and pipelines to store those messages your chat cannot understand and do some process that after categorizCion or labeling it will automatically reteain one or more models. But nothing like this will come out of the box you will have to do the work by yourself
I built something like this for a startup. It's a big project. My advice: start with a small usecase (as small as possible, maybe even only one or two intents). Create a dataset (lots of work!). Train an intent classification model (eg. similar to twitter topic classification examples). Voila, you have the core of your project. :)
Published Wed, Jul 20 202210:19 AM EDTUpdated
Nuthawut Somsuk | Istock | Getty Images More than 4 million people have left their jobs each month in the U.S. so far this year — and according to new research, this record-breaking trend isn’t going to quit anytime soon.
About 40% of workers are considering quitting their current jobs in the next 3-to-6 months, a report from McKinsey and Co. published last week, which surveyed more than 13,000 people across the globe, including 6,294 Americans, between February and April, has found.
“This isn’t just a passing trend, or a pandemic-related change to the labor market,” Bonnie Dowling, one of the authors of the report, says of the elevated quit rates. “There’s been a fundamental shift in workers’ mentality, and their willingness to prioritize other things in their life beyond whatever job they hold. … We’re never going back to how things were in 2019.”
Such conversations about “The Great Resignation” often focus on why people quit — low pay, few opportunities for career advancement, an inflexible work schedule — but what we hear less often is what happens after people leave their jobs.
McKinsey and Co. also spoke with more than 2,800 people in six countries — the U.S., Australia, Canada, Singapore, India and the United Kingdom — who left their full-time jobs within the last two years to find out where workers are going.
Nearly half of job-leavers are switching industries
About 48% of people who quit have pursued new opportunities in different industries, the report found.
Dowling points to two factors driving this exodus: pandemic-induced burnout and better odds of securing a higher-paid role in a tight labor market.
“A lot of people realized just how volatile, or unsafe, their industry was during the pandemic, especially those working on the frontlines,” Dowling says.
At the same time, companies are still struggling to attract and retain employees — a pattern that had undoubtedly caused a lot of headaches for HR departments throughout the U.S., but has also opened the door for job-seekers to take advantage of new opportunities that might have been out of reach before the pandemic.
“More employers have opened up their aperture in order to meet the yawning talent gap that they’re facing,” Dowling adds. “They’re prioritizing skills over educational background or previous job experience, which is creating more opportunities across sectors for job-seekers.”
Some industries are losing talent faster than others: More than 60% of workers who quit jobs in the consumer/retail and finance/insurance fields either switched industries or quit the workforce entirely, compared to 54% of workers in health care and education who made such a switch.
Others are quitting to start their own business, or pursue non-traditional employment
Of the people who quit without a new job in hand, close to half (47%) chose to return to the workforce — but only 29% went back to a traditional, full-time job, the report notes. These percentages come from a March McKinsey & Co. survey of 600 U.S. workers who voluntarily left a job without another one lined up.
The remaining 18% of people either found a new role with reduced hours through temporary, gig or part-time work or decided to start their own business.
“People aren’t tolerating toxic bosses and toxic cultures anymore, because they can leave and find other ways to make money without being in a negative situation,” Dowling says. “There are more opportunities for work now than ever before with our increased connectivity.”
More people are choosing to be their own boss: Over the course of the pandemic, new business applications grew by more than 30%, with almost 5.4 million new applications in 2021 alone, the White House said in an April press release.
It’s not just about escaping a toxic work environment, either. Such non-traditional pursuits also fulfill people’s growing desire for flexibility. The freedom to work from anywhere, or choose your own hours, has become the most sought-after benefit during the pandemic — so much so that people value flexibility as much as a 10% pay raise, according to research from the WFH Research Project.
Rapid quitting could continue through 2022 unless companies make ‘meaningful’ changes
Even with a possible recession on the horizon, Dowling expects that people will continue to quit and change jobs at elevated rates in the months ahead.
Much of the trend has been powered by a “drastic” change in social norms around quitting. “For a long time, you didn’t leave a job unless you had another one lined up — that’s what everyone was taught and what people did,” she says. “But that has changed so dramatically over the last 18 months. … Now, people’s attitude is, ‘I’m confident that when I want to work, there will be something for me.’”
Instead of lamenting the ongoing labor shortage, companies need to look at the shifting economic landscape in the U.S. as an opportunity to reshape how we work and build a better model, Dowling says.
“It’s everything from embedding flexibility in our credo to re-assessing how we value our employees and provide them with the resources they need to do their job … all employers have the capacity to make these meaningful changes,” she adds. “But we have to start taking action, as opposed to sitting back and hoping that things are going to return to a ‘pre-pandemic norm’ — because all signs point to the fact that they won’t.”
Correction: McKinsey surveyed 13,382 global workers for its report on quitting and hiring trends. The firm corrected its information after an earlier version of this article had been published.