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The simulation assumption is ancient, though, and shows how integrated this transcendent view of virtual reality is with spiritual beliefs, especially Gnostic and Eastern religious beliefs . The Hindus called virtual reality, Maya , and believed that it, too, had internal, external, and transcendent qualities. Maya was a veil of consciousness between Brahman and Atman (dual aspects of the unitary godhead), as well as the projected external world. So, are current virtual reality technologies just tools to discover and transcend the programmed reality?
Nomads of the galaxy | Science News
Using probabilistic analysis, the paper explores everything from why we see newly learned words almost immediately after first learning them, to why double lottery winners exist, to even the frequency of meeting people with the same birthday . They even explore whether or not we can statistically state that Shakespeare used alliteration, or if the frequency of words with similar-sounding beginnings could simply be explained by chance alone.
NASA - Psychedelic Space | Science News
Using probabilistic analysis, the paper explores everything from why we see newly learned words almost immediately after first learning them, to why double lottery winners exist, to even the frequency of meeting people with the same birthday . They even explore whether or not we can statistically state that Shakespeare used alliteration, or if the frequency of words with similar-sounding beginnings could simply be explained by chance alone.
Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries | Science News
How do we know how many eggs are in a dozen? How do we tell red from blue? How can we imagine tomorrow when the sun has not even begun to set on today? These are just a few of the mysteries associated with the human brain, the organ that has allowed our species to build skyscrapers, create artworks, and survive for several thousand years— but what is it about this mess of neurons that allows us to think, interpret, remember, and create?
[VIDEO] Tractor-Trailer-Sized Asteroid Zips Between Earth And Moon | Science News
Just as love does not live inside the heart, consciousness is not contained in a finite space -- it's something that arises, something that occurs: a verb rather than a noun . And since the publication of Francis Crick's influential "The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul," scientists have been looking for it in all the wrong places.
[VIDEO] KEPLER TRANSITS | Science News
Interests in rich countries — mainly multinational corporations (MNCs) make deals with local governments to attain land for their own big-money projects , sometimes evicting locals from their traditional homes and farmland, and contributing to food insecurity. Over the past 10 years, almost 800,000 square miles of land has been bought or leased (eight times the size of Britain), mostly in Asia and Africa.
[VIDEO] Planet Hunter - Deep Sky Videos | Science News
The words we pay the least attention to in conversation--connectors like 'the', 'this', 'there', 'and' and 'that'-- reflect our sexual desire and our place in society , says U of Texas psychologist James Pennebaker.
Is There a 'Fifth Force' that Alters Gravity at Cosmos Scales? | Science News
Image of the Day: Ghostly Remnant of a Sun-Like Star | Science News
Prosocial behavior—generosity, altruism, and other behaviors that promote the social welfare of society— are not unpredictable . Just like many other human behaviors, when examined in the aggregate, they exhibit all sorts of regularities. People cooperate in certain predictable ways, and there are certain scaling laws between prosocial behaviors and the sizes of cities. Well, charity also obeys certain quantitative rules.
[PHOTO] Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars | Science News
At a recent weekend “hackathon,” engineers and entrepreneurs sought ways to use tech to help people in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market Street area find food, housing, healthcare and jobs. In the process, city leaders hope to ease tensions between needy locals and newly arriving startups flush with cash.
Poltergeists are defined as paranormal, mischievous ghostly presences that appear to a select group of people. As paranormal entities, they are beyond investigation by rational scientific means. Or are they?
These colorful planetary maps look like pop art | Science News
Have you ever recorded video of an important event with your smartphone only to discover later that people were out of frame or the video was shaky from frantically panning it around? What you need is a way to record everything around you at the same time. Now, a trio of cool smartphone accessories — the GoPano Micro, Kogeto Dot, and the BubbleScope — can do just that.
[VIDEO] May 2012 Solar Eclipse - Where, When and How To VIew it | Science News
Saturn may have snagged Pluto's cousin, turned it into a moon | Science News
It's my belief that only experiencing and understanding truly disembodied cognition , only seeing the coldness and deadness and disconnectedness of something that truly does deal in pure abstraction, divorced from sensory reality, only this can snap us out of it. Only this can bring us, quite literally, back to our senses .The robotic future is here, and it looks nothing like we thought it would. Instead of humanoid, highly-intelligent robots that do our bidding, the future is increasingly one of robotic swarms, robotic quadrotors, and tiny robots no larger than insects that perform surgery. The robotics revolution, in short, is fast, cheap and out of control
[VIDEO] Amateur Scientists Discover Galactic Bubbles | Science News
The robotic future is here, and it looks nothing like we thought it would. Instead of humanoid, highly-intelligent robots that do our bidding, the future is increasingly one of robotic swarms, robotic quadrotors, and tiny robots no larger than insects that perform surgery. The robotics revolution, in short, is fast, cheap and out of control