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René Descartes. Descartes laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Leibniz, Spinoza and Descartes were all well versed in mathematics as well as philosophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed greatly to science as well.
His best known philosophical statement is "Cogito ergo sum" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; I think, therefore I am), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method (1637 – written in French but with inclusion of "Cogito ergo sum") and §7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy (1644 – written in Latin). Early life[edit] Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et-Loire, France. When he was one year old, his mother Jeanne Brochard died. In his book, Discourse On The Method, he says "I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Visions[edit] Work[edit] Descartes lived on Westermarkt 6 (on the left) René Descartes - The Great Philosophers. Three Minute Philosophy: Rene Descartes.
René Descartes - The Great Philosophers. A.I. XPRIZE presented by TED. Announcing the creation of a new XPRIZE in Artificial Intelligence.Give us your input into the rules of this competition! On March 20, from the TED2014 stage, Chris Anderson and Peter Diamandis join forces to announce the A.I. XPRIZE presented by TED, a modern-day Turing test to be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED Talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience. The detailed rules are yet to be created because we want your help to create what the rules should be. RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot | InTouch Health. The RP-VITA® robot was designed to transform the delivery of acute care by expanding the use of remote consults and increasing workflow efficiency. Developed by InTouch Health and iRobot, RP-VITA eliminates the need for telemedicine specific staffing and support with an array of intuitive, easy-to-use features that encourage physician adoption and clinical use.
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Tupac hologram and the Coachella virtual performance | By Musion. Jaw-dropping virtual performance by the late rapper Overview The Tupac Shakur hologram stunned 90,000 festivalgoers and sent digital resurrection stratospheric. There were 15m You Tube views in just 48 hours. The virtual performance took place at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (known simply as Coachella). About the Tupac hologram Coachella is one of the most influential and well-attended music festivals in the world. The festival usually wows the audience and creates headlines, either through a gargantuan performance or a reunion of some kind. To the audience, the hologram looked, moved and acted like Tupac, even bantering with Snoop on stage and addressing the crowd, capping off his stunning entrance by asking: “What the f**k is up, Coachella?”
In true rap form the performance was a feat of bravado, and technology. Our technology used for the Tupac hologram The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio. Occam's razor. The sun, moon and other solar system planets can be described as revolving around the Earth.
However that explanation's ideological and complex assumptions are completely unfounded compared to the modern consensus that all solar system planets revolve around the Sun. Ockham's razor (also written as Occam's razor and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in problem-solving devised by William of Ockham (c. 1287 - 1347). It states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better. Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference is a mathematically formalized Occam's Razor:[2][3][4][5][6][7] shorter computable theories have more weight when calculating the probability of the next observation, using all computable theories which perfectly describe previous observations. ComputersCantThink. WHY PEOPLE THINK COMPUTERS CAN'T Marvin Minsky, MIT First published in AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Fall 1982.
Reprinted in Technology Review, Nov/Dec 1983, and in The Computer Culture, (Donnelly, Ed.) Associated Univ. Presses, Cranbury NJ, 1985 Most people think computers will never be able to think. That is, really think. Not now or ever. BBC Science - Frozen body: Can we return from the dead? 15 August 2013 Last updated at 13:25 The idea of preserving a person's body at very low temperatures in the hope that it will be restored by future medical technology has been a staple of science fiction. But could cryonics be a genuine way of being brought back to life, years into the future? Continue reading the main story How can water stay liquid beneath the freezing point? Water freezes at 0C, but there needs to be a "nucleus", like a piece of dust for example, around which the crystalline structure of ice can form This means that it's possible to chill a purified liquid well below freezing point without it becoming a solid You can witness this phenomenon by "supercooling" filtered water, which turns to ice as soon as it's poured from the bottle Can you instantly transform water into ice?
When a person has been declared legally dead, the cryonic preservation company is informed and it dispatches a response team to attempt to keep the person's blood pumping around their body.