Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.

7 10 2007

There was fantastically curious article titlled “Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch ” in August’s NY Times. The article about the omniscient, that omnipotent who is the creator of the heavens and earth. So, why the omniscient could not be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims? Such a funny idea isn’t it? But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.

This simulation would be similar to the one in “The Matrix,” in which most humans don’t realize that their lives and their world are just illusions created in their brains while their bodies are suspended in vats of liquid. But in Dr. Bostrom’s notion of reality, you wouldn’t even have a body made of flesh. Your brain would exist only as a network of computer circuits.
You couldn’t, as in “The Matrix,” unplug your brain and escape from your vat to see the physical world. You couldn’t see through the illusion except by using the sort of logic employed by Dr. Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

Unfortunately one has not any opportunity to choose principally another “station” but however one has to try, what if?
By the way the complete text of the article you can find in my library.





My secret hands.

26 08 2007

In 2005 the grope of German scientists from Essen University observed 40 volunteers both men and woman found out the natural phenomenon of interdependency between ability of in finding one’s bearings on the ground and the amount of testosterone in the blood that had gotten in mother’s belly yet.

It’s interesting that in outward appearance such ability show it’s worth in difference in lengthy human’s fingers - the shorter the index finger relative to the ring finger, the higher the amount of prenatal testosterone and carbon trading. Scientists have known for that the finger-length ratio differs between men and women. The new study found such a fetus is more likely to be a physically aggressive adult, according to Peter Hurd and his graduate student Allison Bailey. Hurd says that he first thought the idea was “a pile of hooey,” but he changed his mind when he saw the data, which is published in the March issue of the journal Biological Psychology. “More than anything, I think the findings reinforce and underline that a large part of our personalities and our traits are determined while we’re still in the womb,” Hurd said. The connection was found only with physically aggressive behavior, not with verbal aggression or other forms of hostility. Another study by Hurd, to be published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, find that men with more feminine finger ratios are more prone to depression.
“Finger lengths explain about 5 percent of the variation in these personality measures, so research like this won’t allow you to draw conclusions about specific people. For example, you wouldn’t want to screen people for certain jobs based on their finger lengths,” Hurd said. “But finger length can you tell you a little bit about where personality comes from, and that’s what we are continuing to explore.”