software company, and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC, which is a company that provides advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis (especially microarray and SNP data); Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series, an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly theSingularity Institute) and formerly its Director of Research.
Max Tegmark, physicist at MIT, asserts that if the fabric of reality is made of electrons and quarks, then all things are purely mathematical. Through the Wormhole states that intelligent beings who complete the equations in our cosmos will understand it perfectly. No more need for faith and God, who were concepts developed in a more basic aspect of society. Here’s something to ponder on my part, “Do the advancements of technology weaken our willpower (in conjunction with the study by Kevin Rounding) that can lead to a trend of a shrinking religious affiliation (in terms of Danny Abrams’ study)?”
To counter Max’s position, Through the Wormhole introduces Marcelo Gleiser, cosmologist and theoretical physicist. Marcelo shares with us the Incompleteness Theorem by Kurt Gödel (1931). The theorem states that there is no such thing as a formal logic that is self-contained, which can prove every possible assertion within that system. Although I advise you to watch the show to see the example of how this theory works in action, it relays that there is a limit of how much we can know of the world. Through the Wormhole shares that rational thought cannot reveal all the truths to the universe.
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Added by Michael Grove at 8:25 on September 23, 2014
steps, through a creaky old door, down a dimly lit
corridor; and here it is. [IT] was at the bequest of Dr. Vannevar Bush as the scientific advisor
to President Franklin Roosevelt, following Bush's secret R&D
meeting with Winston Churchill and the inventors of the 10cm
Cavity Magnetron, that the MIT Radiation Laboratory was
established to develop technologies for the detection of aircraft and
ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction
with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the
basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology
that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of the
second World War. …