... Try trillion. You're thinking of neurons, not synapses. ... In a narrow sense, that's absolutely right, but it doesn't mean you can take that data (which...
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Davide Mana
doctor_dee_23
Oct 3, 2009 11:34 pm
Greetings Jesper said... ... To quote the master... "some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and...
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infomorph
death_by_sprite
Oct 4, 2009 12:24 am
... I'm not an expert either, but I'll refer you to Charlie Stross's model of memory diamond: ...
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Jesper Anderson
grippen42
Oct 4, 2009 10:10 am
... Quite so. Every neuron has a few thousand synaptic connections, which makes the amount of raw connection data approach perhaps 1k terabyte. Well within the...
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Ricus
jb_dgml
Oct 4, 2009 1:22 pm
I was looking through the winners of this, and previous, years IgNobel-prices (http://improbable.com/ig/winners/) and happened to notice the 1998 Literature...
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Jon Nyx
jon_nyx
Oct 4, 2009 2:04 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... I love this list. *Love* it, I tells ya! Thanks for the fascinating URLs! ObDG: Dunno yet, the nifty articles & this morning's pot o' coffee...
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Kenneth Scroggins
mib_dg
Oct 5, 2009 11:26 am
Get your informant to snitch on all kinds of stuff both real and imagined, then split the payments. Pretty sweet, until the snitch informs on YOU! Link...
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Viktor Eikman
viktor.eikman
Oct 5, 2009 11:32 am
Very good links, thank you! ... I heard him talk (or rather banter, intelligently and amusingly) on related subjects in 2005. He hedges his bets here, and I'm...
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David Farnell
davidfarnell
Oct 5, 2009 11:39 am
... I have a new favorite web service! Dave...
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Jesper Anderson
grippen42
Oct 5, 2009 1:46 pm
... There is no good reason why a given individual should want to wake up in an eternal blissful existence with no ability to even mourn those who do not, and...
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Viktor Eikman
viktor.eikman
Oct 5, 2009 5:59 pm
... The Christian idea you mentioned is not so much a desire for eternal existence as it is a desire for earned pleasure and justice. The concept of eternal...
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Jesper Anderson
grippen42
Oct 5, 2009 8:45 pm
... Having been one of them, I respectfully beg to differ. A major component of many everyday people's faith is simple fear of death in itself, as cessation of...
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Russell Rayburn
rusrayburn@...
Oct 5, 2009 9:32 pm
... That. Is. Awesome! -- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never...
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Marshall Gatten
mgatten
Oct 6, 2009 2:26 am
I'm surprised that both of you, in your arguments, have failed to bring up the fact that there are already disembodied heads in freezers whose brains made the...
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ialdaloboth genzundheit
ialdaloboth
Oct 6, 2009 3:10 am
... There's a wonderful issue of transmetropolitan that handles this matter - "another cold morning" - issue 8, which has been reprinted in the Lust For...
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Chris Womack
j_c_womack
Oct 6, 2009 3:52 am
Hey-- In the midst of the fascinating discussion on brains, AIs, transhumanism, and whatnot, I find myself wondering what Mark McFadden might have to add. The...
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David Farnell
davidfarnell
Oct 6, 2009 5:41 am
... He is indeed. I am sorry to say that he went radio-silent some time ago. As I have had many a warm and friendly offlist discussion with him, I have made...
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Viktor Eikman
viktor.eikman
Oct 6, 2009 7:38 am
... Absolutely. But, although I'm no friend of Christianity, I don't think its theology is the primary source of this fear in US culture. A Christian zealot...
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Viktor Eikman
viktor.eikman
Oct 6, 2009 8:15 am
... Exceedingly poor. We are getting better at it though. ... I hope they like brain damage, but I think you're right, it's a good analogy. Even so, the actual...
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Lee Williams
morthrai
Oct 6, 2009 11:07 am
Greetings all. Issue #2 of Protodimension Magazine is currently on schedule. The current list of articles and literature is available here: ...
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Kenneth Scroggins
mib_dg
Oct 6, 2009 12:08 pm
... His last known DGML posting was April 28, 2008. He used the email lizard.rex@... Prior to this he used the email lizardrex@.... His yahoo ID...
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Russell Rayburn
rusrayburn@...
Oct 6, 2009 12:28 pm
... Thirded, or what have you. As we drag DG into the new age, I often wonder what his perspective would be. -- I can picture in my mind a world without war,...
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David Farnell
davidfarnell
Oct 6, 2009 12:46 pm
... Debatable, I think. HPL certainly did not believe in the existence of a soul, and few of his non-Dreamlands stories imply that souls exist. Even in The...
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EHuelshoff@...
ehuelshoff
Oct 6, 2009 1:33 pm
Yes, He is missed indeed. And I am very, very worried.. But thanks to the MiB for his investigation. Eckhard - lurker...
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Davide Mana
doctor_dee_23
Oct 6, 2009 2:36 pm
Greetings ... Same here. Mark's silence feels wrong. Now the question is - do we have someone close enough to his last reported location, to go and physically...
If I were to submit some of my writing and adventures, how would I go about doing this? -Thanks, CitizenX ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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SGlancy12@...
adamscottglancy
Oct 6, 2009 4:15 pm
... Dear lord! Is that one guy really wearing shades and leaning on a freakin' sword? Who are these wannabes? A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan...
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ialdaloboth genzundheit
ialdaloboth
Oct 6, 2009 4:52 pm
... Must have escaped from the old Pale Puppy HTML chats. His AK47's wrapped up in his duster, off screen. J ...
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Lee Williams
morthrai
Oct 6, 2009 5:14 pm
Simply email us at submissions@..., and just tell us what you have in mind, or if you have something already done send it along. Alternatively...
