Charlie Rose: April 19, 1996
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Desc: First, an interview with Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, about his first compilation of poems since, "The Spirit Level", which takes its title from the Irish term for a carpenter's level. The volume volume deals with the search for a balancing point in ethical, moral, and spiritual affairs. Then, a conversation with philosopher, teacher, and author Huston Smith, who has dedicated his life to the study of the world's religions. He talks about his life work and the book that has been a bestseller since it was published in 1958, "The World's Religions". |
Lord I Offer You My Life
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Desc: gawa ko sa literature aha. |
Soul-Man Downtown
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Desc: Literature, literature... you don't need no litiratoor... all you need to do is FEEL IT! |
Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field
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Desc: Origin of Earth's magnetic field, new discoveries and new concepts, published in world-class scientific literature and explained here. |
Re: Because I could not stop for death - Emily Dickinson
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Desc: An English A2 Literature Class |
Learn lucid dreaming: part 2
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Desc: The one where I share my favorite literature on lucid dreaming. Visit http://www.lucidipedia.com for high-quality educational support. |
Zoroastrians & Islam - Iranian influence to Islam
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Desc: Zoroastrian faith and culture gave Iran under the barbaric islam the power of unity. Sassanian Art and Literature continoued till today. |
Eli Cash - Wildcat
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Desc: Eli Cash, assistant professor of English Literature at Brooks College and author of Wildcat and Old Custer, interviewed on the Peter Bradley Show. |
Mark Meadows: artificial intelligence, design &psychology
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Desc: Mark Meadows pursues digital creativity at the intersection of visual art, literature, and computer interactivity. He has worked at Xerox-PARC as Artist-in-Residence, at Stanford Research Institute on Artificial Intelligence start-ups, and has co-founded three companies that develop business plans drawing on artificial intelligence, interactive narrative or virtual reality. His 3D animation and interactive designs have powered works by Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures, and Microsoft. In 2002 he wrote, Pause & Effect; The Art of Interactive Narrative. He is now writing a book on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Emotion, and the roles interactive characters play in emerging forms of narrative. He is also working as creative director on a video game with architect, Frank Gehry, and the band, Radiohead.
In this interview, Mark talks about what he has learned by working on these diverse and fascinating projects. He describes the trends he sees emerging and contemplates the most likely futures for the game and AI industries. |
Kavi Sammelan part 1
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Desc: Kavi sammelan, in 2 parts.
Indian literature |
Kavi Sammelan part 2
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Desc: Kavi sammelan, in 2 parts.
Indian literature |
Quantum Computing Day 3: Does an Explanation of Higher Brain Function require...
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Desc: Google Tech Talks
January, 10 2008
ABSTRACT
Syllabus and Recommended Literature
This tech talk series explores the enormous opportunities afforded by the emerging field of quantum computing. The exploitation of quantum phenomena not only offers tremendous speed-ups for important algorithms but may also prove key to achieving genuine synthetic intelligence. We argue that understanding higher brain function requires references to quantum mechanics as well. These talks look at the topic of quantum computing from mathematical, engineering and neurobiological perspectives, and we attempt to present the material so that the base concepts can be understood by listeners with no background in quantum physics.
In this third talk we review the history of the theory that quantum effects are essential to understanding brain function. We look at the theory of Penrose and Hameroff and its refutation by the decoherence calculations of Tegmark. Our experiments with pattern recognition using a quantum computer teach new lessons on which type of problems the brain may solve by quantum processes and how the data flow might look. Specifically, we conjecture that computations that are not time-critical and which require the solution of a global optimization problem are good candidates for brain processes facilitated by quantum phenomena. We then study situations in which coherence could be maintained to be of behavioral relevance as well as recent findings that show the relevance of coherence in basic biological processes such as photo synthesis and enzyme function. We advance a speculative theory that mental states induced by tryptamines might come about by enhancing the propensity of the brain to relegate certain computations to quantum annealing. We argue that by virtue of being a physical substrate the brain exists in a global superposition with the environment and participates in information exchange via fundamental physical interactions. This regime becomes relevant in situations in which neural dynamics is less driven by sensory input or behavioral affordances. Studying multiple corpora of reports describing experiences mediated by the psychoactive brew ayahuasca, we argue that our model outperforms a more mainstream neurobiological explanation based on neural assemblies.
Speaker: Hartmut Neven |
UNDERSTAND THE I-CHING
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Desc: HERE'S A LITTLE LOOK AT THE I-CHING. A VERY GOOD BOOK. |
Avayedoost Deklemeh, Persian Poetry
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Desc: Persian, Poet, Poetry,Literature, Politics, Philosophy, General Knowledge, Entertainment, Nima, Shamlou, Sohrab Sepehri, Maryam Haderzadeh, Ali Salehi,Freindship, Love, Afghan, Iran, Tajikistan, Music , Moien, Moein,Humnan Rights, Women Rights, RoManTic_drOpS7 |
The Mysteries of the Bible: Banned from the Bible 1 of 10
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Desc: The Bible has historically been a static piece of literature having no changes made to it for centuries. This is not the origin of this book. Those who say that God has made this one document for the betterment of humanity do so without a historical context. The contents of the bible have been argued over more than one time. Several books considered cannon at one time are now not considered valid in certain versions of the book. The same is true of several books considered noncannonical are now found in many bibles. My hope is that those who consider this book to be of divine or sacred origin ought to rethink their view. They ought to answer the question: when did this book become sacred or complete or both? Why do believers trust ancient scholars whom they would not likely believe today, given what humanity knows now that was unknown then? This documentary tells us that believers will follow whatever is generally accepted and they won't follow truth. |
The writer's guide to making a digital living
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Desc: The writer's guide to making a digital living |
WLIIA - Songstyles
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Desc: Wayne Brady sings song to English Literature major in the style of Luther Vandross. |
Chinua Achebe, Pt.1/3
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Desc: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is interviewed by Bill Moyers. |