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[Julia36]

QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.


Micro Map of the past being created.

• Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
• Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
• 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.

• A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
• Short version (3,000 words)

• The Quantum Archaeology Grid

• Recursive Civilization

• XYLEM

• Turing Church Workshop Paper

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Edited by stopgam, 17 January 2015 - 10:32 PM.

[Julia36]

platypuys.

 

You say underdeterminism prevents QA working.

 

I reply I dont use that model of physics in which has underderterminism as a law.

I fundamentally believe the universe is determined at all levels. Gerardus dHooft (Nobel Prize in physics) also believes this: see his note to me confirming this  on page 1 above.

 

I have stated this to you exhaustively.

 

Further, the Many Worlds Theory, which Hawking subscribes to, and the majority of physicists poled agreed with,  answers the paradoxes of QM and is a determinist theory.

 

I have replied to the challenge that information is lost, by arguing that

 

a. things decay by laws alone, and

 

b. Everything in the universe interacts with everything else THEREFORE there are many pathways back to identify any event in the past.

 

c. I believe it possible to construct a Quantum Archaeological Grid which enables drawing of lines from multi coordinates for any moment in time to the limits of our measurement capabilities (presently maths)

More, I think we can do this Grid thru time..have an interacting grid of any amount of spacetime we desire.

 

 

I am not alone in this BELIEF. And it is philosophy. As a philosopher it is not for me to do the science only to state axioms which are not in conflict.

 

Your challenges are scientific, so to take the last one first, I judge the number of equations one can do about the past of human lives and bodies/brains, is MORE than the number of unknowns, because of probabilities. In your model that means the QA Grid is an overdetermined system.

 

this is a 2 D  grid of a prototype person

 

of the British Isles

 

and you can do them in 3 D (thru time or any other dimension)

 

eg this is a 3D grid of the galaxy

 

 

As a philosopher I dont have to produce the complete QA Grid, but only submit the idea and logical argument supporting it.

 

Information cant be destroyed. We agree on that.

 

How can you argue everything in science is known and couldn't be retrieved or reconstructed.?

 

Edited by stopgam, 17 January 2015 - 11:17 PM.

[Julia36]

we break things down into smaller things. Objects/components we call them in computer programming.  Events in space time for the QA Grid.

 

one moment in 2 D grid

 

 

but nothing NB NOTHING exists of itself. EVERYTHING is dependent and co-dependent on other things. Further EVERYTHING obeys the laws of the universe.

 

There are over-arching patterns short-cuts to get to astounding denouments which looks magic in archaeology and statistics.

 

 

Including you.

 

I know what you're dealing with. Death = destruction = final = that's it.

 

Well that is not it, there cannot be any death, life is not special but particular arrangements of particles capable of being logged and built to oreder, and you can figure out what some things will be and what most things were.

 

Making a model of the past universe for 14 billion years is exactly the same principle as making one of a man who died in 1622.

 

No free will, consciousness, mystic states, supertiority of man over nature.

 

and absolutely no final death. That is impossible.

 

Robert Ettinger a professor of science  (founder of cyonics) agreed we may be able to reproduce as much of spacetime as we wished in years to come. See his note to me also on page one above. So I'm not nutty on QA.

 

Things have pasts and those pasts can be determined by causality and probability. Where you have no remaining evidence you can retrodict probabilistically and the amount of time you do it over is subject to your retrodiction techniques plus your calculating machines.

 

It may be far easier in coming A.I. systems.  A.I. is my own field and I know what it may do.

 

BTW I have been campaigning for controls on A.I. for 15 years.

 

Edited by stopgam, 17 January 2015 - 10:56 PM.

[Julia36]

Recreating the past is much easier than many other things. Because you can proof its accuracy.

 

 

 

This will be useful for de-extinction in the next 10 years (above)

but may be essential for Quantum Archaeology.

 

Where do you start?

 

 

Mapping everything you can now, then running it backward in a computer.

That includes people.

 

you dont need particles that have left a dead person in 1622, because you can work back to what he MUST have been - or the present would be different.

 

 

 

 

So you take a bit and map it out, and deduce.

 

You add in all the data banks...everything you can find..all wikipedia for instance.

 

This isn't fancy, Watson has already done wiki.

 

Then you ask it to simulate Joe in 1622.

 

If you have enough data it will do it.

 

 

When will the dead Rise?

 

I believe, after studying it, we will be able to do it within 10-15 years- tops, although when I posted this thread I thought 20-40 years. It may be sooner. Exascale computers are here after 2018, and miniaturisation is quickening, maths is improving, and discoveries and mapping give you more data.

 

as a rule in A.I.

 

More information = Less calculation needed

 

There's a pretty proportional relationship between what you know and what you need to calculate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forensic Facial Reconstruction.

Maximilien de Robespierre

 

As many copies of a dead person as you want.

 

The ego screams out "NO!" " I am unique!"

The statistician smiles " There is no such number."

 

Map em out

 

3D Print em out with your mobile sucking in dust and rebuilding it.

 

Edited by stopgam, 17 January 2015 - 11:29 PM.

[Julia36]

Now your left with the problem of identity.

 

Until you get rid of ego you will suffer and think you are unique.

 

I reject uniqueness as an attack on photocopiers.

 

"I'm unique...dont you understand ? I cant be copied ....

When I'm died everything's finished and I'm going to die!"

 

 

 

But this just isn't the case in nature nor in you.

 

Your cells are being copied while you read this.

 

If they can copy one for one,

 

why not one to two,

 

one to a million.

 

Think of it....

 

 

 

 

If inanimate objects, why not living organs? If  you can print them in a day, why not in one second?

 

3D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand - LiveScience

 

 

 

The next step: 3D printing the human body - Telegraph

Japan researchers target 3D-printed living  body parts

 

yesterday

 

CES 2015

 

 

Harvard working on 3D Printed Human Heart

 

http://wyss.harvard....8203120E2.wyss1

 

 

So a whole person's coming.

 

2020's at a guess...b4 with A.I.

 

if not one, why not more? Identical closer than twiins.

 

Not sci-fi fact-coming.

 

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 12:07 AM.

[Julia36]

pt 2

 

[Julia36]

PUBLIC LECTURE

 

The Future of Physics: interviews with best Emerging Talents in the world:

 

 

great video

 

http://perimeterinst...meter-institute

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 03:08 AM.

[Julia36]

Note Jacob said one experiment seems to show unification possibilities for Quantum and Relativity.

 

This must be, and our understanding of the world extended so that prediction ability increases.

 

My own view is that every science is a waste of resources which could be ploughed into A.I.s that can solve problems.

 

Note @ 4.18

 

he quotes Newton

 

"Nature obeys laws and it is the business of (science) to find them out."

 

Of course that is illogical. You cannot know Nature obeys laws until you know what they are.

 

It's a debate I've been having fiercely (with myself) for 2 decades...are there laws at all, or do  motions change so quickly they cant be relied upon for prediction.

 

Luckily it doesn't affect Quantum Archaeology,,,whether laws are classical, indetermined or a mix of both, mastering them will allow us to recreate the past.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 03:45 AM.

[Julia36]

 

K Supercomputer successfully simulates Bubbles.

 

as simulations become possible accurate histories of people can be worked out in computational physics.

 

 

 

Researchers have used Japan's most powerful computer to model the physics of bubbles, a finding which could lead to more efficient energy generation. Uncork a bottle of champagne, and as the pressure of the liquid is abruptly removed, bubbles immediately form and then rapidly begin the process of "coarsening," in which larger bubbles grow at the expense of smaller ones. This fundamental nonequilibrium phenomenon is known as "Ostwald ripening," and though it is most familiar for its role in bubbly beverages, it is also seen in a wide range of scientific systems including spin systems, foams and metallic alloys. On a much larger scale, Ostwald ripening can be observed in a power-generating turbine. Most power stations rely on boilers to convert water into steam, but the phase transition involved is highly complex. During the phase transition, no one is exactly sure what's occurring inside the boiler—especially how bubbles form. " more

 

 http://www.asianscie...ters-champagne/

 

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:54 AM.

[Julia36]

New species discovered beneath the ocean

 

https://www.youtube....SN1psBeXk#t=101

 

"Two miles below the surface of the ocean, researchers have discovered new microbes that “breathe” sulfate.

The microbes, which have yet to be classified and named, exist in massive undersea aquifers — networks of channels in porous rock beneath the ocean where water continually churns. About one-third of the Earth’s biomass is thought to exist in this largely uncharted environment.>>> more

 

https://news.usc.edu...th-ocean-crust/

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:29 AM.

[Julia36]

Solar system gets more planets

 

 

 

Surprising news in the astronomy department: scientists believe that two more mysterious planets might be part of our solar system. They have been hindered from our view so far because they are hidden behind the controversial Pluto.

The findings resulted from analyzing the cosmic space and bodies beyond the planet Neptune, calculating the planets’ orbits from Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud.

In this cosmic space, two new planets at least 10 times larger than Terra, currently in the ETNO category (“extreme trans-Neptunian objects”), are idle in the hope of discovery.

The latest and most widely accepted theory poses a few criteria for these objects to fit in the planet category, such as owning a semi-major axis approaching at least 150 astronomical units (AU) and also an inclination of approximately 0° with regard to the plane of our solar system.

Thirteen of these ETNOs were put under “microscope”, and the findings showed major differences in meeting the said criteria. Most of the values were ranking between 150 and 525 in axes and the inclinations averaged to 20 degrees.

The author of the study, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, ascribes the unusual orbital parameters to some unknown forces which cause shifting in the distribution of the ETNOs that they have studied. The most logic explanation in this situation is the existence of new planets that are yet to be discovered in their hiding place beyond Neptune and Pluto.

The astrophysicist stated that the team does not know yet the precise number of the new planets, given the fact that data collection is a slow and sluggish process, but two of the ETNOs are sure to fit the description, and probably more, pushing the limits of our solar system.

Further research is also hindered due to the fact that the undiscovered realms are outside the reach of our current astronomic equipment (at least 200 AU away), causing the data to be very uncertain.

If new improvements in the cosmic instruments will make new research possible and accurate, we cannot be sure of what the unknown space beyond Pluto might reveal. But the new planets might prove to be a boost to the current number of planets in our solar system, considering the fact that our 9th planet was demoted in 2006 from the status of a full planet to a dwarf planet. However, certain recent scientists are considering adding Pluto back to our “grown-up”planet list.

 

http://www.capitalot...r-system/28085/

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:30 AM.

[Julia36]

Deep learning is making an impact in artificial intelligence

 

 

 

"Deep learning got a big boost from bloggers and developers, as well. Two larger pieces on the state of deep learning went live.

Particularly interesting is the use of AI and data visualization to imagine higher-level dimensional data. And in the latter link, a podcast on machine learning, specifically tackles the ethical questions, again.

Read more: http://sdtimes.com/s.../#ixzz3P8ymtbWH

 

oldie

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 05:24 AM.

[Julia36]

Face b ook makes A.I.Opensource

 

 

 

"Face b ook wants the world to see a lot more patterns and predictions.

The company said Friday that it was donating for public use several powerful tools for computers, including the means to go through huge amounts of data, looking for common elements of information. The products, used in a so-called neural network of machines, can speed pattern recognition by up to 23.5 times, Face b ook said.

The tools will be donated to Torch, an open source software project that is focused on a kind of data analysis known as deep learning. Deep learning is a type of machine learning that mimics how scientists think the brain works, over time making associations that separate meaningless information from meaningful signals." more>>>

 

http://bits.blogs.ny...rce-group/?_r=0

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 05:21 AM.

[Julia36]

Robot wanders round asking people for help

 

 

 

 

 

"German scientists had taught a humanoid robot to find its way by asking for directions from people in the street. Fitted with Fitted with an array of cameras and sensors, the automaton represents a significant step in the development of robots that can integrate with society"

 

Cambridge furthers research

http://www.scienceda...deos/510588.htm

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:53 AM.

[Julia36]

http://www.cnn.com/2...tion/index.html

 

short leap from friendly useful robots to war robots patrolling the earth.

 

The west is getting ready to

 

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 05:28 AM.

[Julia36]

"Machine intelligence evolving at breakneck pace"

 

good article

 

 

"Some luminaries of our age have warned recently that machine intelligence is evolving at a breakneck pace. So breakneck, in fact, that machines might soon decide the world would be a better place if all our necks were broken. Thus begins the Machine Apocalypse, we’ll all rue the day we decided to tinker with this whole artificial intelligence thing.

 

 

A recent book on the subject — Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom — lays out a case for why the not-so-distant-future may indeed produce human-level machine intelligence that is self-aware and self-organizing. This intelligence would rapidly surpass human intellect and learn to outwit any attempts we might make to control it, leading to potential catastrophe. By tinkering with artificial intelligence (“AI”), Bostrom argues, we are akin to “small children playing with a bomb.”

 

Is there really cause for concern? A quick glance into some select alleyways of the AI research world might raise eyebrows over how close we may be to a future Skynet; the centralized AI in The Terminator that gained self-awareness and then set about killing almost everyone.

 

 

One notable instance is the RoboEarth project, which seeks to create a massive, global database of knowledge that intelligent machines can all tap into. These machines can then share what they’ve learned and accelerate their learning from the experiences of other machines."  more>>>

 

http://venturebeat.c...-will-do-to-us/

 

 

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 06:03 AM.

[Julia36]

January 2015 Breaking News Cyborgs Transhumanism Artificial Intelligence DARPA Demons dangers

 

 

  

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 06:16 AM.

[Julia36]

Quantum Archaeology Predict Resurrection by 2030 !

 

Quantum Archaeology is the science of resurrecting the dead including their memories, anticipating the process technologies due in 10 - 15 years. It assumes the universe is made of events and the laws that govern them, and seeks to make maps of brain/body states at the instant of death for everyone in history. It involves the coming quantum archaeology grid which sets out all known events, calculating the others in vast cross-referencing timelines - which are also expressed by the laws of physics. The result will be a megamatrix good enough to describe then simulate the past. It awaits coming systems like quantum computers and super-recursive algorithms. Large grids already exist waiting to be merged, including cosmic ones with trillions of moving points. Early quantum computers are already built and expected to achieve required efficiencies by 2022, and super-recursive algorithms are already being used.

 

Technology is speeding to hard take-off.

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 06:41 AM.

[Julia36]

 

Philosophically there is no death. Quantum Archaeology has abolished it.

We are reassembling the past, bringing extinct systems back. Some from nearly a billion years ago. As A.I. comes it will make progressively better simulations, working  detail past the scale of ions, for living human brains, charting vast quantum archaeology grids of complete environments into the past. Anything that has lived, or existed, will be instantly rebuildable by anyone who wants to do it.

 

This isn't fantastic - millions of data trends point to it happening within 2 decades and early reconstruction have been done.

 

 

We use artefacts at present and add to them based on context probability. But simulations are beginning to be made like cosmic ones, which will become so accurate they will emerge into the 3D world as the real things. For any illusion indistinguishable from reality IS reality.

 

Seventh-Century Moat Uncovered in Japan

 

ASUKA, JAPAN—Excavation work at a school at the Koyamada ruins in Nara Prefecture has uncovered the remnants of what may have been a moat at the first burial site of Emperor Jomei (593-641)"

 

more>>>

 

http://www.archaeolo...japan-tomb-moat

 

 

The dead are walking back to life:

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:52 PM.

[Julia36]

British doctor believes there is a CURE for Alzheimer's disease

 

"This is directly caused by a rogue gene that can be tested for early, but cannot be cured. If one parent has the gene, the child has a 50 per cent chance of developing the disease.

Dr Livesey uses this predictability and takes skin cells from someone who will definitely develop the disease.

He reprogrammes them into stem cells, which can then be transformed into any type of cell in the body.

These are then used to create neurons from the part of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s, the cerebral cortex.

In essence, Dr Livesey makes a “mini brain” that scientists can use to observe the disease for its entire cycle.

It is a revolutionary technique that is set to transform research in the field. “There are hallmarks for Alzheimer’s and we know what to look for at the end of the disease,”

 

http://www.express.c...mer-s-stem-cell

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 04:19 PM.

[Julia36]

Data. Simulable, describable, retrodictable. These picture of birds returning are the real birds. They are pixels on your screen. Simulations of what happened: in this instance based on light capture. Future ones will be based on computational physics simulating biology. We know this is likely because we are doing simple ones with crude tools now.

 

They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.Emerson

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 05:07 PM.

[platypus]

Laws can be probabilistic at the deepest level, I have no problem with this. I guess we'll find out sooner or later whether things are deterministic or not - at the moment it strongly looks like they're not. I still do not understand on what basis you can clam that underdetermination, deterministic chaos, combinatorial explosion and the lack of a sensor network (that would catch the information that left Earth hundreds or thousands of years ago) do not absolutely kill QA. Your "explanations" are not convincing as they really explain nothing but parrot buzzwords instead. BTW I'm not doing this critique because I'm some kind of an asshole who is attacking your person, instead I'm trying to provide you with free peer review. I'm asking the questions I would ask if I was confronted with your claims in a manuscript submitted to a scientific journal. 

 

Here are links to just some of the problems:

 

https://en.wikipedia...orial_explosion        (this one basically negates the gains in processing power)

https://en.wikipedia...ki/Chaos_theory                       (nature a full of chaotic systems so this one is a real killer)

https://en.wikipedia...utterfly_effect                     (a deeper look into initial value sensitivity in chaos theory)

 

QA needs to simulate chaotic systems and get the "right" results - how could this be possible given the above?

 

 

[Julia36]

Ad hominem argument is banned from this forum. I have replied to all the above previously.

 

there are outside-simulation possibilities like quantum archaeology

 

H+  July 22, 2014

Constructive Complexity, or Posthuman Ethics and Value Systems

http://hplusmagazine...-value-systems/

 

There are massive difficulties arguing on theories that are in conflict  -like those of the big and those of the small in physics. They cant both be right.

I cant reply on them because no-one can. I have issues with terminologies tripping themselves up eg chaos connates no order, where as physics implies nothing but

 

 

One can see glimpses of yet uncharted laws (indeed this is the ways laws always emerge) by observing trends. We dont know why the trends exist then we find causation for them (the why).

 

One can observe causation. & Observe archaeology now.

It doesn't seem a massive leap to watch trends & predict archaeology then will do more!

 

you objections may seem to set limits o0n what is possible, but I dismiss those cited as Einstein dismissed challenges to his work as irrelevant (because they are wrong if you say these prohibit retrodiction...we are already retrodicting)

 

Logically conclude that given the ability to churn out simulations, if you churn enough you will certainly churn Joe from 1622.

 

it is not possible to argue he cant be resurrected then within this model. You just wont know which is the correct Joe.

 

By using probability I argue you can reduce to the correct one.

 

I am arguing from general principles, which is as far as I wish to go.

 

Where a theory of physics seems to show QA is impossible, that theory will disappear, or else it is being incorrectly applied.

 

I heard a nobel prize winner saying you have to fight for your theories or they wont get accepted.

 

That is foolish. The truth cant be buried. There is no death.

 

I guess this thread is enough with the other occasional ones on Kurzweilai.net to kick the idea into debates in new science and science fiction, and that is all I wish to do.

 

My work is superintelligence (accelerating A.I.)

 

Who knows what the future science will be possible.

 

After 2018 we will have enough supercomputing power for a total human simulation. As it factors up we may be able to simulate any portion of space-time we require.

 

I think that likely based on A.I. trends- before 2030, and likely in 10 years.

 

I'm trying to stop posting here as you may have guessed. But thanks for the posts over the last few months. Good luck with your searches

 

Regards

 

Someone far away.

 

Edited by stopgam, 18 January 2015 - 07:36 PM.

[platypus]

Father of chaos theory explains why it is impossible to

predict weather & climate beyond 3 weeks

 

http://www.lavoisier...-prediction.pdf

According to chaos theory, all the current "initial' conditions throughout the atmosphere must

be known precisely to predict what the atmosphere will be doing in the distant future. In

addition, one must know all the current conditions throughout the oceans as well, since the

oceans control the atmosphere. “In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of

weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be non-existent,”

Lorenz concluded.

 

 

So even if the molecules in the air all interacted non-randomly, in a totally cause-and-effect

(deterministic) manner, you still couldn’t predict with certainty what they would do or what

the weather would be."

 

 

Predicting the weather is almost infinitely more simple that trying to retrodict what was the synaptic configuration of Ceasar. 

[Cloudjin]

On identity wouldn't it be possible to scan the person to find out who's the correct Joe?

Edited by Cloudjin, 18 January 2015 - 11:35 PM.

[Julia36]

On identity wouldn't it be possible to scan the person to find out who's the correct Joe?

 

Scanning is important. It was the basis of digital information in Archaeology .

But as information becomes digitalised you can play with it to make predictions.

In archaeology and anthropology (societies) you are interested in retrodictions from limited  (but growing) data.

 

This involves equations of sublime complexity and beauty.

 

As we reconstitute faces million years old, and living systems 100's of millions, we establish rules as to how life must have been. Great charts of rules narrow what past peoples were. This doesn't stop at their faces, but descends to their brains.

 

there are specific, configurable patterns that can happen in a brain. They are not random but created by the nature of the brain and the stimuli from the environment.

 

As the chart is sketched as the Quantum Archaeology grid, it will become possible to plot anyone who has ever lived and all their thoughts they were capable of having.

 

 

 

London UCL selling 1st year BSc

 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk...sc_anthropology

UK considers robot Traffic wardens

 

 

Estate agents, car salesmen and traffic wardens will soon be replaced by robots.

This is according to Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a research fellow in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, who has predicted that care for the elderly and even children are among the jobs to be replaced by artificially intelligent beings within the next 50 years.

Her research suggests human workers across a plethora of service sectors and caring professions could be replaced by droids within our lifetimes."

 

shld read 5 years not 50.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3PIfURJvo
 

 

Edited by stopgam, 19 January 2015 - 09:03 PM.

[Julia36]

You can be first to see this Great Vid!!

 

Edited by stopgam, 19 January 2015 - 09:01 PM.

[Julia36]

We lived in the Trees

 

 

"A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected from sites in northeastern Montana.

Purgatorius, part of an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, first appears in the fossil record shortly after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Some researchers have speculated over the years that primitive plesiadapiforms were terrestrial, and that primates moved into the tree canopy later. These ideas can still be found in some textbooks today.

"The textbook that I am currently using in my biological anthropology courses still has an illustration of Purgatorius walking on the ground. Hopefully this study will change what students are learning about earliest primate evolution and will place Purgatorius in the trees where it rightfully belongs," said Stephen Chester, the paper's lead author. Chester, who conducted much of the research while at Yale University studying for his Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Chester is also a curatorial affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.>>> more

 http://phys.org/news...st-primates.htm

 

A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected from sites in northeastern Montana.

Purgatorius, part of an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, first appears in the fossil record shortly after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Some researchers have speculated over the years that primitive plesiadapiforms were terrestrial, and that primates moved into the tree canopy later. These ideas can still be found in some textbooks today.

"The textbook that I am currently using in my biological anthropology courses still has an illustration of Purgatorius walking on the ground. Hopefully this study will change what students are learning about earliest primate evolution and will place Purgatorius in the trees where it rightfully belongs," said Stephen Chester, the paper's lead author. Chester, who conducted much of the research while at Yale University studying for his Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Chester is also a curatorial affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news...imates.html#jCp

 

 

Quantum Archaeology is a detective game.  The brilliant thing is that from only a few facts you can deduce a whole description.

 

You are drawing on data bases and joining dots, and doing logical  jigsaws -  then proofing they're correct by doing others and cross-referencing them.

 

The field work is gathering artefacts and visiting sites, but the putting together is computers computers computers!

[Julia36]

Liberace returns 28 years after his death

 

 

 

"Liberace is heading back to the stage 28 years after his death thanks to some technological tricks.

The flamboyant performer, who passed away in 1987, will be projected on stage as a hologram at some point this year - first in Las Vegas and then during a tour across the U.S.

It comes after the late Michael Jackson appeared on stage at last year's Billboard Music Awards. In 2012, Tupac also returned to the stage at Coachella Music Festival.

Hologram USA - the team behind Tupac's act - are now plotting Liberace's return, and hope that he will be able to interact with members of the audience, Forbes reported.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3PKqgq2YT
 

 

What constitutes a human being - a "self"?

 

Information, in one model. Not staying theory but being trued in early technology

 

 

We Bring Robots To Life

 

 

We're about at cave drawings  in technology -

relative to the next  decade.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube....S_4R6Avlew#t=62

 

 

TED Convergence of General Intelligence Machines Video Hanson Robots 2012

 

 

Edited by stopgam, 20 January 2015 - 06:04 AM.

[Julia36]

Eco systems aren't random.

 

That's why it is easier to recreate what they must have been.

 

Ecosystems need maths not random nature to survive

 

QA's conjecture is that enough information can be deduced to accurately describe any ecosystem that has lived...including the humans that lived in it, & including their thoughts. Then use coming nanobots to resurrect them.

 

We are in the general information gathering phase with relatively little technology (compared to the coming decade)

 

Edited by stopgam, 20 January 2015 - 06:38 AM.