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This video is about the concept of critical point – how the brain might optimize information processing by hovering near a phase transition.
#neuroscience #chaostheory

Cephalopod intelligence on Wikipedia

Tundra makes great #VR devlogs mostly about #physics-based interactions.

This one is a delight to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_m6oEmPj8I

Emulating optics of a real camera to create photographs in Blender.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will — and explores its ethical and psychological implications.

This is the first part in a series about Computational Fluid Dynamics where we build a Fluid Simulator from scratch.

Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life.
It was derived from Conway's Game of Life by making everything smooth, continuous and generalized.
#cellularautomata

Explanation of The Selfish Gene, the gene's-eye view of evolution, which can be defined as the idea that the gene is the ultimate beneficiary of selection.
Book: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
(fun fact, the word "meme" originated in that book)

A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.

web demo: https://oimo.io/works/life/ (scroll to zoom in/out)

In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation.

History of the Universe : a great youtube channel with documentaries about the Universe.

Journey to the Microcosmos is a great youtube channel about the microscopic world.
Description: Take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we want to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos.

25,000 neurons growing on a multi-electrode array form a living "brain," which is hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. Information on the aircraft's movements is processed by stimulating neurons with electrodes. The neurons then fire in patterns that control the aircraft's flight path.

In depth videos by The Thought Emporium:
https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g
https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.

Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a very high concentration of mass hidden behind the plane of our galaxy. It has all the ingredients for an epic space mystery, it is the Great Attractor.

This channel has a bunch of high quality conversations about consciousness and similar topics.

A team of elite cavers led by 68-year-old explorer Bill Stone are in the depths of Cheve Cave, Mexico. At every step of the way, they use nature’s clues, following the wind and water within the cave, to navigate their next move. Underground it is a maze of twisting tunnels and dead ends in search of a passage that leads to the bottom of the deepest cave on earth.

They have established a chain of underground camps (which took them 30 years to do) leading deeper and deeper into the cave, all the way to the frontline of the exploration (5 km from the entrance).

It takes them around 7-10 days to reach the bottom of the cave, so the leading team gets supplied by multiple supply teams that every so often travel the length of the cave.

A collection of Chernobyl documentaries filmed on-site in October, 2021. Including a look at Pripyat's unique dog population!

Listened to an interesting programme about mathematics on the radio the other day.

Dr Eugenia Cheng discussed how 1+1 doesn't necessarily produce 2. Sometimes it is 1.

If you add one pile of flour to another pile of flour you still have one pile of flour.

It's all about context. When it is true and in what sense it is true.

Any ideas for other answers to 1+1?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n1k5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Most of us are aware of the hive mind — the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In this ...

The Juvenile Wunderpus Photogenicus might make you remember the film Mars Attacks with the aliens with their brains showing through their helmets.They are ex...

The Chinese Room Argument was first proposed by philosopher John Searle in 1980. It is an argument against the possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) – that is, the idea that a machine could ever be truly intelligent, as opposed to just imitating intelligence.

When the Cardinal fish sucks up what it thinks will be dinner, the tiny sea creature, a type of ostracod, emits a burst of light. That burst saves the ostracod.
If you have a lot of predators in the wild, then it's best to stay hidden. That's why the fish in the tank vomit up the tiny bio-luminescent ostracods. Otherwise, their bodies would illuminate from within, calling out to their predators, "Here's DINNER!" and getting them eaten for sure.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/cardinalfish-vomits-glowing-ostracod-2014-9

This is the first part of a three-part miniseries on the shape of the universe...

Discover the fascinating complexity of honeybee stingers under an electron microscope...