"An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf. More than 1800 exoplanets have been discovered (1850 planets in 1160 planetary systems including 472 multiple planetary systems as of 20 November 2014). wiki
"Discover New Method of Measuring Magnetic Fields of ExoplanetsChinatopixScientists claim they can measure the strength of the magnetic field surrounding an exoplanet by observing the solar winds of its star as the winds hit the planet.
A symposium being held today at Massey University will discuss the potential "de-extinction" of New Zealand birds, with the huia sitting at the top of the list.
Six speakers will talk of de-extinction being a reality in the next decade or so - using recovered DNA to reconstruct species genomes, and injecting stem cells into embryos to be birthed by surrogates.
Professor Philip Seddon of Otago University's zoology department said the main reason for the symposium was to get people to discuss something that was likely to soon become a reality...."
"De-extinction for conservation purposes is a "matter of when, not if," said Philip Seddon, a zoologist at the University of Otaga in New Zealand. "We need to think very hard about which are the good candidate species."
"An Australian science project to resurrect an extinct frog species has been named one of the world's best inventions.
The Lazarus Project centres on a genome technology developed by researchers from the University of Newcastle. It was included in Time magazine's 25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013 list because it has been successfully used to bring back to life the gastric-brooding frog.
Famous for giving birth through its mouth, the native frog has been extinct since 1983. The researchers were able to collect DNA from frozen frog tissue stored in a conventional freezer for 40 years. Using a process known as somatic cell nuclear transplantation, they deactivated eggs from the distantly related great-barred frog and swapped the nuclei with that of the gastric-brooding frog."
172 million into robotics startups last year, according to an annual survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP—nearly triple the $60 million two years earlier."
"We are in for a change; a different kind of change than we’ve ever experienced.
In the past, change has typically been based on technologies that make us faster and more efficient. We’re now entering a time of change where intelligent technologies are going to make us smarter.
- See more at: http://www.informati...h.FvoC2aTR.dpuf
" city of Thonis-Heracleion was believed to be a legend by many, after it disappeared beneath the Mediterranean around 1,200 years ago - until it was found in 2000
........Archaeologists have found the wreckages of more than 64 ships, gold coins and giant 16-foot statues.
Slabs of stone inscribed in both ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian have also been brought to the surface."
Carbon dating of the mammoth’s flesh revealed that she walked the earth 40,000 years ago.
Discovering the presence of haemoglobin confirmed that the dark red liquid is definitely blood.
The mammoth was female and analysis of her tusks indicates approximately eight successful calving events and one calf lost. Females grew their tusks once they got into their calf-bearing years, at rates that were very much dependent on where they were in a calving cycle. Tusks grew more slowly when a female mammoth was pregnant and lactating.
From her teeth, Dr Herridge was also able to estimate that the mammoth was in its fifties when it died. Mammoths and elephants have similar teeth and through their lives the molars are replaced six times. When the last set wears out, they starve and die. Dr Herridge’s examination of the teeth revealed dental abnormalities, indicating that she wasn’t able to chew her food correctly, which may explain gobstopper-sized stones found in the gut.
Despite their reputation for being enormous, this mammoth was not much larger than an Asian elephant.
She met her end by becoming trapped in a peat bog and being eaten alive by predators from the rear end."
QA intends to construct information about everyone who has ever lived - then resurrect them.
What we're reassembling from the past by hand - Intelligent Machines will do miles better in the future - and the dead can wait.
How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins
"A Texas supercomputer capable of 9.6 quadrillion operations per second has solved a thorny problem in genetics, by looking at the bones of a young boy who died 24,000 years ago in Mal’ta in south-central Siberia.
Existing genetic models have suggested that modern Europeans share DNA with 3 different groups: blue-eyed, swarthy hunter-gatherers who arrived in Europe some 40,000 years ago; a second group of light-skinned, brown-eyed farmers from the Near East who migrated about 7,000 years ago; and a third mystery group who arrived more recently to share their genes. But no one knew who this "ghost population" was.
By plugging the ancient boy’s genomic data into the 9.6 petaflop "Stampede" supercomputer at the University of Texas at Austin, senior co-author David Reich of Harvard and his team were able to confirm a theory that the boy’s group of “ancient North Eurasians” were indeed the missing population.>> more
“It’s a little like archaeology,” James Shapiro, a Shakespeare expert at Columbia University, said. “Where we find a folio tells us a little bit more about who was reading Shakespeare, who was valuing him.”
The folio, whose discovery was first reported by the regional French newspaper La Voix du Nord, is not the rarest book the St.-Omer library owns. It also has a Gutenberg Bible, of which fewer than 50 are known to survive." more>>>
This is answered in the Quantum Archaeology grid (above). Cross refencing eliminates improbables.
Modern techniques reveal Ancient gold mines in Spain.
"Complex hydraulic systems and the methods of ancient Roman gold mining have been discovered using sophisticated laser detection and aerial mapping over Las Médulas in northwestern Spain.
Archaeologists have long thought that the Romans were mining for gold in Spain in the first century B.C., and researchers from the University of Salamanca have now located the vast ancient gold mines in the province of León, and hidden under Eria Valley vegetation and crops. The gold mine complex, known as Las Médulas, is believed to be the largest gold pit of the Roman empire. It featured channels and reservoirs, as well as intricate hydraulic systems which diverted high-pressure water to the site for processing." more>>
The 3D printer on the International Space Station is up and running! The first object manufactured on the station instead of delivered to it is a faceplate for the extruder's casing. This opens up not just in-orbit manufacturing, but another self-repairing machine."
Would a person, who was ressurected with the help of Quantum Archeology, be the same person who died in the past?
I mean would it be the continuation of that persons consciousness, or would the ressurected person be a copy of the original, just with the same memories?
Would a person, who was ressurected with the help of Quantum Archeology, be the same person who died in the past?
I mean would it be the continuation of that persons consciousness, or would the ressurected person be a copy of the original, just with the same memories?"
Yes. I reason it possible to deconstruct and define what a person is, living and certainly dead, by present and coming science. One way of looking at this is medical resurrection...what are the limits of recovery?
Another is archaeology....what are the limits of archaeology?
I dont distinguish between a person and and other data, and as you establish the reci[pie for a dead person, any number of copies can be made (see Bob Ettinger Prospect of Immortality chapter 8).
Consciousness is a term for the working of particular brain and biody functions in an environment. I think all those can be faithfully recreated.
Do you think living/dead people not like other physics?
We are created and absolute slaves to the laws of the cosmos, and sufficiently intelligeent systems will be able to predict our movements and thoughts. That seems to be a law in the intelligence heirarchy. But these superintelligent systems must logically have precursors now in our world.
old chestnut in Philosophy called The Ship of Theseus.
QA is a materialist arguement positing recovery of information using archaeology and statistics. THere is no special place for a person, and no subjective qualification.
Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence
"Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere. It’s still what the experts call “soft A.I.,” but it is proliferating like mad. We’re now accustomed to having conversations with computers: to refill a prescription, make a cable-TV-service appointment, cancel an airline reservation—or, when driving, to silently obey the instructions of the voice from the G.P.S." more>>
Rohinni has developed a form of what it calls Lightpaper. It's a way to print lighting and apply it to nearly any surface, in any shape, and for any situation. It's a kind of stunning proposition that reminds me of the first time I heard about 3-Dprinting.
"With Lightpaper it's more of a platform of light that we don't even know how it's going to be used," explains Smoot. "All we know is that we're trying to unlock the ability to create light." more
"Engineers have now developed a chip on which both sound waves and light waves are generated and confined together so that the sound can efficiently control the light." More
the human brain already seems to have common signalling for sight and sound.
Quantum Archeology (QA) - (Quantum Archaeology) also known as quantum resurrection, quantum information retrieval and time scanning, is a controversial and emerging idea in science about bringing the dead back to life.
Ancestor simulation - although at the end of time - has been speculated to be possible by Frank J. Tiper in 'The Physics of Immortality' in 1994, and Russian Cosmists ideated physical resurrection in the 19th century.
QA posits it will be available near the advent of post-human machine intelligence using emerging statistical probability and number crunching techniques to achieve massively accurate retrodiction. Robotic resurrection would then follow as science and technology converge. (above top of the page).
"Robotics presented at the exhibit feature autonomous machines controlled by mobile devices which are capable of feeling, seeing, hearing, and reacting to their surroundings." More
IMDEA Networks launches a pioneering research project on BRAin inspired Data Engineering (BRADE-CM). The Madrid research institute is part on an interdisciplinary team with a multi-tiered research approach spanning neuroscience, the development of imaging instrumentation, the modeling of complex systems and networks, and the design of information processing ICT systems. BRADE has the ambitious goal of contributing to a new generation of computation and information processing systems for large-scale datasets inspired by how the brain processes"
Engineers have found a way to store multiple bits of data on a single cell. The discovery could help speed up our favourite gadgets as well as making technology smaller and cheaper."
There are massive survival risks with technology. Chief among them has to be the most powerful which will be A.I. from about 2020 on trends.
already 6 days out of date Nov 22 2014). A.I. systems are futher than this today.
But if beings survive all the rest of us can be resurrected. Paradise engineering can deal with suffering, and the multiverse is vast.
Deep cosmos and definitions of self are integral and unseperable.
People who dont upgrade will be like chimps to those who do.
The horrow and cruelty inflicted on less intelligent beings by Man may be scaled up.
Best way to stop the above scene is arguably to accelerate computer simulation. Arguable, because any simulation accurate enogh may include suffering.
Ethics:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.[1]
We're not going to stop accelerating intelligence at robots.
If a hard take off happens, a "person" might span a galaxy oe more, proliferating as they go.
How can philsophy deal with this? Are the precursors here now and can we detect/change them?
Is there a distinction between a group of data and a man? How to we enforce that?
TEL AVIV — An Israeli company says it has developed technology that can charge a mobile phone in a few seconds and an electric car in minutes, advances that could transform two of the world's most dynamic consumer industries.
Using nano-technology to synthesise artificial molecules, Tel Aviv-based StoreDot says it has developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like a super-dense sponge to soak up power and retain it.
While the prototype is currently far too bulky for a mobile phone, the company believes it will be ready by 2016 to market a slim battery that can absorb and deliver a day's power for a smartphone in just 30 seconds." more
In 20-40 years Man must have the capabilty to resurrect all the dead to have ever lived - or science will have stopped.
You can try to forecast trends by seeing where research, then startups funding is going. A.I. and robotics are massively supported for the first time.
yesterday:
"The United Kingdom announced... the creation of a £120 million network of four “quantum technology hubs”—involving 17 universities and 132 companies—to create new, commercially viable technologies based on quantum mechanics"
Underground waters vaster than all the world's oceans discovered.
"There's a massive reservoir of water buried hundreds of miles beneath our feet in the United States that's as much as three times the amount on the surface in all of the world's oceans today, according to a scientific study released Friday."
What has been the most interesting recent progress in brain preservation?
Beyond a doubt the most exciting recent advance in brain preservation has been the work of Dr. Shawn Mikula (in the laboratory of Winfried Denk) at the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg Germany. Over the last five years Dr. Mikula has been perfecting a method of preserving an entire mouse brain in plastic suitable for 3D electron microscopy. An early publication of his technique was published in Nature Methods:
(http://www.nature.co...nmeth.2213.html) and since then he has improved his technique significantly. In fact, his work is part of a project at the Max-Planck Institute with the goal of mapping the connectome of an entire mouse brain.
I believe that the technical advances Mikula has developed to preserve a mouse brain will be extremely relevant to the development of a technique suitable for preserving human brains (in hospital settings) with the same fidelity.
Mikula’s chemical preservation method is by no means the only brain preservation method being researched. We are also tracking (and supporting) research into cryonic preservation of brains and hybrid approaches which aim to combine the best of the chemical and cryonic methods." muchmore>>>>
"Latest research on the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia shows that the region’s first people, hunter-gatherers who arrived over 50,000 years ago, brought with them a rich art practice.
Published this week in the archaeological journal Antiquity, the research shows that these earliest people skilfully produced paintings of animals in rock shelters from southwest China to Indonesia. Besides these countries, early sites were also recorded in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.
Griffith University Chair in Rock Art Professor Paul Taçon led the research which involved field work with collaborative international teams in rugged locations of several countries."
I have some questions for stopgam. What reference points would QA use? I mean I get how you could get external data from a picture but how would you get the quantum interior? Also you believe in QA but still support cryonics?
I have some questions for stopgam. What reference points would QA use? I mean I get how you could get external data from a picture but how would you get the quantum interior? Also you believe in QA but still support cryonics?
Hi cloudjin.
Welcome to Longecity.
"Data is not random but in discoverable groups and shapes that cross-reference and repeat. Meaning - you can make shortcuts and confident retrodictions in space-time despite few events surviving." QA (above)
classically and probabilistically calculated from the classical world.
Using the laws of physics you can then draw lines through each to each and plot them on The Quantum Archaeology Grid using prorocols like XYLEM which checks for accuracy.
The timeline of human history can be derived by joining up the reference points.
Size - classical meso or quantum mico - doesn't affect reconstruction,: both use causal and probabilistic calculation..what is demonstrably there from the record, or what must be ther e by probability.
Amount of data calculations possible increases
Probability statistics is well developed in quantum theory.
The external data is the data between the artefacts that must exist.
At first that could be lmost anything, but6 as you use elimination rules, and techniques like algorithmic probability (and sampling theory) you are left with just one event or object, which will eaither confirm the archaeology grid or challenge it.
Compuing is improving on jumping trajectories, and we expect a merge with robotics and a major paradigm shift.
- quantum computers are an example of this - machines that are on the drawing board but do not exist yet -you will calculate simultaneaously loads of cross-refencing trajectories.
This will get easier as the size of calculoation we can do increases, and to which there may be no upper limits.
Architectures will change and new paradims to support Moore's Law built.
eg
Hewlett Packard are attempting a new form of supercomputer architecture using electrons, photons and ions, and their Bristol labs are trying to develop it by 2020 +
How much data do we need to calculate?
a lot. But not an infinite amount. I have listed numbers futher back in this link.
Artificial Intelligence will dwarf even these and may become full A.I. in the 2020's unless a stealth project suceeds.
There isn't really a difference between data and artefacts and a sufficient grid can plot with increasing accuracy from both.
As to cryonics: both QA and cryonics are arguements to the future - banned in philsophy as unprvable. But both rely on science and maths improving, which seems reasonable. It is wise to get covered by cryoni suspension, though that is just a personal view.
Resurrecting an exti9nct species ----> resurrecting a dead specific human
is an issue of size of calculation.
Mathematic discoveries eg in Grassmanians can reduce huge calculations, requiring miniscule computing power:
The dead are going to be resurrected: it's the biggest challenge I've met as a philosopher and I still cant get my head round it.
Thank you for my own colorful welcome. So I take it you believe in QA because math and science are improving. I get that a lot of data is needed, but my concern is the data variance. If you only have plenty of data on Subjects A, B, C, and D, , but none on E, can you really get data on Subject E? Perhaps you've answered this I'm still taking in the reply.
Thank you for my own colorful welcome. So I take it you believe in QA because math and science are improving. I get that a lot of data is needed, but my concern is the data variance. If you only have plenty of data on Subjects A, B, C, and D, , but none on E, can you really get data on Subject E? Perhaps you've answered this I'm still taking in the reply.
No not from beleif nor from weighting unknowns. There are no unknowns from this view, everything relevant is calculable.. Aa lot of propositions in QA, but all of them are simple. We are already resurrecting generic species, and it is professionally acceptable to calculate what you have no artefactual evidence of (see de-extinction). Resurrecting specific people is but a size of calculation difference.
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