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A reasonably scientific answer {below} is offered by Gaelen Armstrong on Quora {at:..."> "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." What did Albert Einstein mean by this statement? We use cookies to make interactions with our website easy and meaningful, to better understand the use of our services, and to tailor advertising. For further information, including about cookie settings, please read our Cookie Policy . By continuing to use this site, you consent to the use of cookies.
05 May 2019 3,705 5 View
The incredible thing about Physarum polycephalum is that whilst being completely devoid of any nervous system whatsoever (not possessing a single neuron) it exhibits intelligent behaviours. Does...
04 April 2019 6,709 29 View
Is science tantamount to being only another religion (a system of beliefs that is not predicated on justifiable physical facts)? Or, is it more? Can science accurately interpret the meaning of...
04 April 2019 1,166 7 View
Please note my question does not ask about human psychology, philosophy, sociology or theology! It's primarily a physics question ...
04 April 2019 6,568 72 View
I am interested in hearing the scientifically-based opinions of any-and-all scientists (not just professional climatologists) ... please cite sources for your estimates/assertions ...
02 February 2019 3,820 8 View
"A study published in the British Journal of Psychology says smarter people do better with a smaller number of friends. Lead researchers, Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman Li, evolutionary psychologists...
03 March 2018 9,028 89 View
Truth can be interpreted as only information with the highest measure of (infinite ?) fitness (i.e., indelibility ... or resistance to corruption and deletion)? If so, is truth the same as...
12 December 2016 5,285 27 View
After a species (say, like humans) achieves a certain level of intelligence (say, being able to control and direct the course of its own genetics), do the "rules" of evolution (say, for...
12 December 2016 1,878 57 View
Microsoft reports they are encoding large blocks of digital data (even music videos) into DNA ... does anyone know more the exact method they are using and have an opinion on whether it may ever...
07 July 2016 1,106 10 View
Betrayal is willfully violating the trust that some other has placed in you (usually to gain some profit or unfair advantage for yourself). Betrayal ranges a gamut from trivial violations of the...
07 July 2016 660 35 View
Was life begun as the result of a "noisy search" by Nature (NOT precisely the same as a "random" interaction between molecules, but as defined by Aleš Kralj at the link below), or was the...
04 April 2016 2,808 79 View
... or is he a minion of Satan, a just punishment visited by God upon the Republican Party, many of whose members seem to be selfish pretend-Christians (hypocrites) like him? 18 Feb 2016 - 5pm CST...
02 February 2016 8,446 59 View
OR, does the use of these radionuclide tracers, themselves, add a significant risk of causing cancer in patients? The dose of ionizing-radiation from the tracer used in one PET scan, for example,...
01 January 2016 10,066 27 View
Dark matter is NOT the same as anti-matter, but is it possible that dark matter may be perhaps the correlate of anti-matter [or matter] for other [unseen, undetectable with current instruments]...
01 January 2016 374 13 View
Neuroscience indicates that decisions are emotional and not logical. Do you agree or disagree? See:...
12 December 2015 9,163 48 View
Faith and Skepticism Faith is a belief held without evidence. The scientific method, a loose collection of procedures of great variety, is based on precisely the opposite concept, as famously...
12 December 2015 2,626 58 View
Stephen Hawking has said: "Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself ... The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of...
08 August 2015 4,316 80 View
In the current "war" over hoarding access to scientific publications, for example, we have seen a scramble among traditional paper-publishers to grab a share (or try and hold-on to, and extend to...
07 July 2015 7,230 9 View
Have any transparent solar-cells with high efficiencies been developed since the publication on this promising experimental cell last...
06 June 2015 1,381 0 View
The Spanish-to-English translations are particularly bad, and require AT LEAST TWICE the effort in correction as the French-to-English translations. Why is this? Is Spanish syntax/grammar that...
06 June 2015 3,759 0 View
I am interested in using a small/miniature biofuels/diesel powered engine to both charge the batteries (while the solar cells are not producing enough power) and to directly power the 4 electric...
06 June 2015 6,574 25 View
Brief-newsy overview article here: https://thinkgrowth.org/ai-can-bluff-now-heres-what-this-means-for-your-business-2910eee64799#.eyxx3imju
01 January 1970 2,848 8 View
