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  A comment on Talk: Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone

  Apr 10 2013: I want a flying version of Romo. I could find a zillion uses for it.
  
  This idea can be used to create lawn mover robots to agricultural flying robots that spray pesticides, to robots that are controlled from home to fly around the city paint graffiti on roof tops. Cool.
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  A comment on Talk: Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

  Jan 29 2013: Thank you. There's so many people that talk about meditation without knowing what it really is. There's so much nonsense about "this meditation" and "that meditation" and most of them actually make you even more susceptible to the tricks of your mind. This is the true essence of meditation. Watching your thoughts and not being attached to them and gradually becoming aware of how the mechanism that is your mind works and how you can be the master of it instead of it becoming your master. Thank you for explaining it in such a simple manner.
  
  As a long-time meditator I have first-hand experienced the wonderful rewards it brings to my life. The serenity, peacefulness, concentration, not being overwhelmed by emotions or thought-patterns, and moreover being able to recognize the emotions and thought-patterns when they arise. Yes, just 10 minutes a day is all it takes. It WILL change your life - for the better ;)
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  A comment on Talk: Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains

  Sep 24 2012: I was expecting some fascinating results or discoveries or at least something to make me say "yeah! nice." What was this talk about? He didn't say anything except telling us that they're carrying out these experiments using fMRI. I'm disappointed. This talk could've been as short as 30 seconds and I wouldn't have wasted 15 minutes of my life..
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  A reply on Talk: Hannah Fry: Is life really that complex?

  Sep 2 2012: Cool! I just opened the video and before even watching it I was thinking of Asimov's psycohistory, and yours is the comment at the top of the page right now with the link to wikipedia page for psycohistory. I love these small synchronicities.

• A reply on Talk: Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination

  Jun 28 2012: hahahaha :))))
  
  you made my day :)))

• A reply on Talk: Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding

  May 3 2012: Nonsense! People stop me on the street to take photos with me (because of my blue beard). They like it, it's different and interesting and they want to be able to prolong the experience (by saving it in a camera) and share it with others. Now the indian example may look different but actually it's not (unless you use discrimination and I think that would be disrespectful). When tourists come to my country (Turkey) they take pictures of ice-cream sellers or spice shops or simple villagers if they are 'interesting' enough, and even donkeys! It doesn't mean they show no respect.
  
  I know that I would like to take a picture with a native Indian. And I respect them very much and know about their culture.

• A reply on Talk: Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?

  May 3 2012: Quote Brian "..a belief that our conscious minds move from one reality to the next is ill founded. We have no data to suggest such things happen, you are not a transcendent avatar of energy flying through the cosmos on some adventure. you are a collection of amino acids bound together by the laws of this universe. You gained the gift of self awareness as a result of an enlarged cerebral cortex that was used for advanced predatory modeling"
  
  What if?
  
  Is it so improbable? For thousands of years mystics have pondered on this idea. Whole eastern spirituality (buddhism, taoism, hinduism) is based on it actually. They even go further than that, but what if the 'everything' is what we call 'god' and we are just a manifestation of this 'god energy' which is creating every possible reality - all of them - all combinations of existence, within different universes with different laws, that contain all possible parallel realities, which are experienced by all possible vessels (living things) simultaneously? That is; we are actually 'god' or 'existence' taking a look at itself through our (and everybody else's) eyes all at them same time, simultaneously in all of the parallel realities that are possible in all the different universes...

• A comment on Talk: Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career

  Mar 13 2012: This was definitely one of the best talks I ever watched on TED. A great and very passionate talk (performance) on passion and life. Thank you!
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  A reply on Talk: Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

  Oct 26 2011: It could've been dropped in the ocean as a warning. But no, they dropped it on the city. And as if that wasn't enough they dropped a second one. So yes it ended the war, but it could've done that without being used as a weapon, by just being used to scare.
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  A reply on Talk: Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism

  Oct 19 2011: Hi Peter,
  
  My example about aliens was just to point out another way that life could have started on this planet. But as soon as you say it could've happened, you are against the bible and creationism. What does it matter where aliens came from? If some super-advanced aliens created us than bible is wrong.
  
  As much as I love a good and respectful debate this will probably will be my last post here. There's nothing more I want to say here, in small boxes limited to 2000, and you are good at evading questions. :) I believe I have stated my case and explained why I believe what I believe. This will have to be enough.
  
  And for the record, I'm actually not an atheist. I'm agnostic And about being in agreement that a superior intelligence is required to have seeded life on this planet, I'd say I sympathize with solipsism and pantheism, which both seem equally possible to me (maybe both at the same time). And yes I guess both would mean that a superior intelligence created life on this planet.
  
  Basically I'm not anti-'god', or atheist, but anti-religious. (You must have figured that out by now). My problem is with religion and the suffering and manipulation of humankind that is a direct result of religion. But the world is as it is, and I think have given enough ideas and sources to follow for anyone looking for his own truth rather than the church's. So I respectfully leave the conversation with a quote I find deeply meaningful from G. Massey:
  
  "They must find it difficult... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."