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17:0817:08, 26 April 2025 diff hist +2,373 N The Experience Machine Created page with "== Unboxing the Experience Machine == * The number of neuronal connections carrying signals backward in this way is estimated to exceed the number carry signals forward by a very substantial margin. * The brain, at 2% of human body weight is estimated to account for around 20% of total bodily energy consumption. * The bulk of what the brain does is learn and maintain a kind of model of body and world - a model that can then be used, moment by moment, to try to predict th..."
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16:2316:23, 26 March 2025 diff hist +2,092 N Science: A History Created page with "== Origins == * One potential date for the beginning of the revival of Western Europe is 1453: ** Publication of "On the Structure of the Human Body" by Andreas Vesalius and of "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies" by Copernicus", mark the start of the scientific revolution that would transform first Europe and then the world. ** The Turks captured Constantinople marking the end of the old Roman Empire, causing many Greek-speaking scholars fled westwards to Italy..."
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10:0110:01, 22 March 2025 diff hist +3,671 N The Rise and Reign of the Mammals Created page with "* 303-307m ya - The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse - The climate became drier, temperatures swung cold and hot, and the ice caps melted, eventually disappearing for good in the ensuing Permian Period. * 252-251m ya - The Permian-Triassic transition. 90% of species were wiped out. Mega volcanoes erupted for several hundred thousand years. Animals that survived became smaller (the Lilliput Effect). By growing fast and reproducing earlier, they have a better chance of su..."

17:2617:26, 12 March 2025 diff hist +5,715 Four Ways of Thinking →Interactive Thinking
16:4816:48, 12 March 2025 diff hist +3,738 N Four Ways of Thinking Created page with "== Introduction == * Science and mathematics are, in large part, about finding better ways of reasoning. This book describes four ways of getting nearer to the truth. * Stephen Wolfram hypothesized that every process, biological or physical, personal or social, natural or artificial, lies in one of only four classes of behavior: ** Stable systems - Are those that reach and stay at an equilibrium, like a ball rolling to rest. ** Periodic systems - Are those that exhibit r..."
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