Posts for the ‘Physical and Mathematical Sciences’ Category
Silliman University Physics Blog
Last Tuesday, August 24, 2010, the Physics department organized a lecture-forum on climate change, held at the multimedia center of Silliman University. The main lecture was led by Dr. Clare Cabahug Maxino, Ph.D. in Physical Geography at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Her lecture was entitled:
"An Introduction to Climate Change and [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
The last “obituary” blog post I wrote was for my grandfather Leo Zwell — the man who taught me about science and so much else. He died at age 91, after a long life rich in personal, professional and intellectual satisfaction. His death was tragic, as are almost all [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
By Algrace Bellingan"Last July 29, 2010, GF Micro Optics Philippines Incorporated came to visit, for the very first time, Silliman University’s Physics Department. The company, who was represented by Mr. Rodolfo Aguilar (Section Head, Human Resources Management and General Affairs), and Mr. Errol Stanley Bitera (General Manager for Operations), gave a short [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
You may have already seen the new version of Ray Kurzweil’s “Ramona” chatbot on the lovely new Kurzweilai.net website … if not I encourage you to check her out:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ramona4/ramona.html
I’ve been getting a lot of email questions about Ramona 4 during the last couple days, so I figured I’d write a blog [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
The Silliman University Physics Department had their Orientation last June 30, 2010 at the Maxino Beach House. The students got to be acquainted with each other and with the faculty members. Also, the freshmen students were introduced and welcomed as well as informed of department policies. Dr. Gerardo Maxino, former chair of [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
After some interesting conversations about psi with Damien Broderick, I couldn’t resist spending a half-day writing up some old ideas I had about how to modify quantum physics to better explain psi phenomena like precognition, ESP and psychokinesis.
You can find my funky physics speculations at
http://goertzel.org/dynapsyc/MorphicPilot.htm
– (Parenthetical remark: If you want to [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
Last June 17, the JPPS organized a clean-up of the astrodeck in line with its opening as a fundraising event for the upcoming Founder’s day. The usual telescopes were set-up along side two of the old and unused telescopes of the department. After participating in the national astronomy olympiad, I came to [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
Last June 17, the JPPS organized a clean-up of the astrodeck in line with its opening as a fundraising event for the upcoming Founder’s day. The usual telescopes were set-up along side two of the old and unused telescopes of the department. After participating in the national astronomy olympiad, I came to [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
As part of the JPPS’s fund raising activities for the upcoming Founder’s day celebrations, the JPPS invites you to a night under the stars. The Astro-Meteo Observatory deck will be open on June 21, 24 and 26 from 7-9 PM.
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Silliman University Physics Blog
In line with the memorandum from CHED, Silliman University is implementing the no non-MS policy. Since the physics department has a limited number of MS Physics faculty members, special arrangements have been made. First of all, SU is continuing it’s special arrangement with the Maxino college. And also, the Physics Department welcomes [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
A friend forwarded me a recent New Scientist article containing some freaky, grandiose anti-AI rhetoric…
Some interesting tidbits about clever things single cells can do, are followed by the following dramatic conclusion:
For me, the brain is not a supercomputer in which the neurons are transistors; rather it is as if each individual [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
I finally did a more careful write-up of some ideas I developed in blog posts a while ago, about how to model reflective consciousness, self and will using hypersets (non-foundational sets)
http://goertzel.org/consciousness/consciousness_paper.pdf
Even if you don’t want to read the paper, look at the pictures at the end — Figure 6 is [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
At the Toward a Scinece of Consciousness conference earlier this week, I picked up a rather interesting book to read on the flight home: Henrik Walter’s “The Neurophilosophy of Free Will” ….
It’s an academic philosophy tome — fairly well-written and clear for such, but still possessing the dry and measured [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
One of my AI collaborators from the late 1990s, Alexandru Czimbor, recently suggested I take a look at Peter Gardenfors book “Conceptual Spaces.”
I read it and found it interesting, and closely related to some aspects of my own AGI approach … this post contains some elements of my reaction to [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
The JPPS would like to congratulate our new physicists:
Louie Jay Amante
Kris Marie Torres
Evelyn Alderite
Jan Ina Ho
Nizza Charmagne Baylosis
Dyck Nouven Cedino
Congratulations! We are proud of you.
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