Category: Thoughts
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Intelligent Life
One of the vexing questions in science today is, why do we seem to be the only intelligent life in the universe and, if we’re not, where is everybody else? Maybe the answer is that intelligent life is a very common occurrence in the universe, but so is the inability of intelligent life to survive…
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Junk DNA
In 1984, a guy hired me to write 8051 code for a product he was developing to track real-time automobile milage and expenses for tax purposes – he did the hardware, I did the software. In a few months, we had a working prototype. Right about that same time, the laws that had made record…
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Memory Refresh
It’s been reasonably well established that dreams are glimpses into the process of our brains converting short-term memories into long-term ones, rather like dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in computers can be committed to hard disk for long-term storage. I don’t think anyone knows for sure why some of our short-term memories become long-term ones…
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Four Spatial Dimensions
If we lived in a universe with four spatial dimensions, would we have three arms?