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5 minutes ago: Here's "Me and MY Dog." Thanks

10 minutes ago: What I never quite understood how scientist draw up a model of our hominids (with skin tone, hair, facial aesthetics etc.) with just a couple fragments of bone.
also, it takes a specific series of essential events to produce a fossilized anything, usually catastrophic. oddly enough fossils findings are assumed to have a injury prior to fossilization rather than the seeing that fossilization itself is a likely damaging violent process.

interesting lecture here.

15 minutes ago: As it will be open sourced, I'm sure we'll see all kind of designs from different companies. There's no reason SixthSense glasses won't be available, just as there's no reason it should be the standard design! As a matter of fact I think that pendant design is quite clever and elegant.

20 minutes ago: "If we can't all agree on something like this there is truly something wrong with the human spirit."
So those of us who don't see this issue your way have a defective human spirit? Now I wonder why that sounds familiar?! I think you just scored an own-goal!

20 minutes ago: well, if there is a clear difference in time between what we experience by our perception and the 'reality', wouldn't that mean there is the same difference in time with regards to us reacting to this world? Therefore, we could only react on and alter our surroundings after a certain lapse; yet we find ourselves thinking we react instantly. That is, with a little delay due to interpreting our perceptions - but still, rather immediately.

Due to that, the only way to combine the idea that there would be a significant (thus bigger than the fifth of a second of our normal reaction speed) time lapse between the 'actual world' and our perception of it AND our observation there is no such time lapse (since we can directly react on our perceived world) is by proposing 'we' are only observants! No free will since we are not in control of 'our' actions, but even so under the illusion we are in control, that we are someone, that we Are.

20 minutes ago: So because other people decided to use their ideas to make profit, so should Pranav? How low have people got? Now it's reprehensible to be generous, my goodness...

30 minutes ago: Fascinating speech! It gives us an excellent understanding of why people from different cultures behave differently.

The only problem I have with having a denominator of infinity (as opposed to 1) is it promotes the numerator to be zero i.e. achieve nothing in your present life. Because no matter what you do, you are going to have to go through another life.

I would have liked to hear more about your role as a Chief Belief Officer @ Big Bazaar.

30 minutes ago: Tiberu, I'm guessing you're not an artist, I play a few different instruments (though i'm only really good at guitar, don't hold it against me) but I also thoroughly enjoy physics, mathematics and literature. From which have I learned more about life? Music. How can that be? Study music as in depth as I have and I think you will find what not only myself but many others have. This can be said for ALL forms of art (and yes, mathematics and science are usually considered arts).

45 minutes ago: There were more jokes than "evidence" in that piece I think. Dawkins leads an army of faithful believers.

45 minutes ago: Her book, "My Stroke of Insight" is easy to read and very informative. Don't take my word for it, visit your local library/

1 hour ago: This is a brilliant idea! Now instead of using a a projector he should make it into a pair of glasses. That would impress me!

2 hours ago: I wonder why he did not mention that Astrolabe was made by the Arabs; mainly for determining the direction to Mecca and the time of praying

2 hours ago: 1) No Asian is critical of oriental thinking??? What is the history of China in the 20th century but radical criticism of oriental thinking? There is a lot more Westernisation of the the East than the opposite.
2) Pattnaik may be a simplistic but he never claims objectivity so it is OK in my opinion if he presents Indian ideas in front of a Western audience. He is simplistic because he fails to see that similar ideas appear in both cultures, e.g. Plato's philosophy includes reincarnation.
3) The lecture shows, right from the start, that West and East have very different views on what it means to be successful and achieve things in life. It is no surprise that a Western value system evaluates the achievements of the West and finds them better than their Eastern counterparts (and vice versa), but can one system even evaluate the other or claim objectivity (= third man logical fallacy)?

2 hours ago: brilliant. evident, but evidently not enough. specific. powerful. perfect.
thank you

3 hours ago: First I want to say thank you Paul for opening this topic. This is one of the most accessible ideas for mass change I have ever known of. I have recently come down with some kind of virus myself. I am hoping that the Reishi mushroom will help with it.

3 hours ago: This is great. But I think he should not open source it. Open a company and earn from it.And that will be real contribution ti India.I know people will call be mean but then Bill Gates didn't sell windows for free. iPhone is great but Steve Jobs did not give it for free for humanity !!! Do something great for your yourself and country.

3 hours ago: After driving AMD into the ground so hard that they went from "Intel killing" mode to the verge of bancrupcy ant to effectively sell their manufacturing to Saudis, he really shouldn't be the one to toss around smarts about technology.

It was above all his "contribution" that AMD bought ATI for ridiculously high price and then had additional troubles integrating it. Because of this:

- AMD's jewel- K8 concept was delayed immensely, enabling intel to catcha a breath and respond with Core2

-K-10 was VERY LATE and full of problems

- several fabs with future geometries were posponed and later effectively outsourced.

- laying off many, many hard working technical gyus/gals that were crucial part of the company

After all those debacles he didn't have any problem trousering big fat CEO style checques for his "merits" and is now here to lecture mere mortals about "future"- IRONY OF THEM ALL.

4 hours ago: Very good speaker.
Having said that I suspect certain amount of package dealing going on with associating fuzzy logic,relativity etc with Indian belief system.
I agree with the idea of using mythology to understand a culture and using that understandig to drive a marketing strategy but a sound marketing stratgey does not imply a sound life strategy
The fact that Indian Mythology helped Big baazar come up with a good marketing strategy should not imply that the same mythology can be used to come up with a good life strategy too.
One could very well argue that believe in infinite lifes could make one complacent, less productive and less creative.

4 hours ago: Marc what prevents someone from pushing the plunger back through the syringe orifice?

4 hours ago: Adam:

1: CO21 is actually good for the environment.
2: Warming is good, all living things flourish in warm climates, in cold climates, not so much,
3: Look up into the sky around mid day. You'll see a huge thing up there, that's so bright and hot that it can burn your skin...

IT'S THE SUN STUPID !

Did you ever notice that everyone complains about the weather but only the democ-rats try to legislate it?