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Can Intelligence Really Be “Artificial”?
Read more: Can Intelligence Really Be “Artificial”?I’ve never been too much in favor of the term “artificial” as applied to what we now call “Artificial Intelligence.” There has always been something about the term that just doesn’t seem right. It seems to me that what we call intelligence is the ability to deduce a result from two or more independent concepts,…
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Speed Redefined
Read more: Speed RedefinedLast week in my post on this website, I blogged about the vast distances between star systems and how difficult it would be to travel between them. It’s a contention of mine that those immense distances are at least one of the main factors, if not the main one, that keeps aliens from other planets…
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The Superintelligent Species
Read more: The Superintelligent SpeciesIn this post, I want to continue, in a more limited way, from the post I made last week, about traveling the universe, or at least our Milky Way galaxy. Last week’s post was about why we haven’t been visited by aliens from other planets, and I gave some reasons why this hasn’t taken place. …
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The Other Guys Out There
Read more: The Other Guys Out ThereI’ve noticed recently several postings on social media questioning why haven’t we heard from intelligent beings from outer space. The question has so often been asked, if we are capable of listening to signals from outer space, and observing all the stars and planets and galaxies and all the other stuff that exists out there,…
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Crewed or Crude?
Read more: Crewed or Crude?I’ve decided to not like the term “crewed” when referring to a spaceship that has human beings in it. Granted, the term is now used as a replacement for the word “manned” because spaceships nowadays have women in them too, either as crew or passengers. In the beginning of the US “Man in Space” program,…
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A Couple of Notes About the Artemis Project
Read more: A Couple of Notes About the Artemis ProjectI just have a couple of comments to make about the Artemis project that NASA has developed to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. First, humans haven’t been to the moon since the Apollo program was shut down prematurely in 1972 after Apollo 17 returned. There were three more Apollo flights scheduled (they…
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Is Outer Space Real?
Read more: Is Outer Space Real?I still have lots of questions. Like, what is outer space? Is it real? Does it actually exist? Now, I’m defining “outer space” as all the emptiness outside all the other things in the universe. I’m eliminating all planets and stars and asteroids and all space junk and photons and atoms and molecules and gas…
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Movement
Read more: MovementAs I mentioned in my post of two weeks ago, I said I had a lot of questions to ask, and I thought I’d ask a few of them today. Instead of a post asking inane questions about a whole bunch of different items, this time I thought I’d throw out a question or two…
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Metric System Revisited
Read more: Metric System RevisitedI’ve posted about the metric system before, and now I want to revisit the topic because I think it’s important to the United States. The US is one of very few countries that don’t use the metric system of measurements for most of the common functions we have. We measure distances in feet and yards…
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Real Time
Read more: Real TimeAs the title of this post says, I’m talking about “real time.” It’s a term used to refer to something that takes place immediately. It takes place so fast you can see and hear it happening with no perceptible lag in time between the occurrence and the recognition of that occurrence. My dictionary defines it…
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Time
Read more: TimeWhat is time? I’ve seen a few posts on the internet lately about “time.” Questions have been raised about whether time exists or not, and what it is, and if there is any substance to it. Some have suggested that time does not exist, that it is a figment of our imagination, or that we…