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Be Your Own Guru
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Year: 1971 Publisher: MOUNTAIN CENTER, California Ranney Publications

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Religion and the physical sciences
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ISBN: 9780313332845 0313332843 Year: 2008 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,


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AI AND THE SINGULARITY : A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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"AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. The group of scholars that address this question have a variety of positions on the singularity, ranging from advocates to skeptics. No conclusion can be reached, as the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is much wishful thinking and imagination in this issue rather than trustworthy data. The reader will find a cogent summary of the issues faced by researchers who are working to develop the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, artificial general intelligence. The only conclusion that can be reached is that there exists a variety of well-argued positions as to where AI research is headed.

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Information technology industries --- technological Singularity --- intelligence --- emotion --- artificial general intelligence --- artificial intelligence --- computer --- logic --- figure/ground --- computers --- consciousness --- singularity --- self --- futures --- technological singularity --- philosophy --- cosmic evolution --- anthropology --- technical singularity --- non-axiomatic reasoning system --- metasystem transitions --- patterns --- patterning --- cognition --- set theory --- language --- information --- abductive reasoning --- futurism and futurology --- hard science fiction --- models of consciousness --- intelligent machines --- machine replication --- machine evolution and optimization --- Turing test --- embodiment --- competition --- cooperation --- self-organization --- robots --- heterogeneity --- team sports --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- automated journalism --- robo-journalism --- writing algorithms --- future of news --- media ecology --- autogenous intelligence --- bootstrap fallacy --- recursive self-improvement --- self-modifying software --- superintelligence --- skepticism --- cyborg --- evolution --- love --- misinformation --- Technological Singularity --- Accelerated Change --- Artificial (General) Intelligence --- apophenia --- pareidolia --- complexity --- research focused social network --- networked minds --- complexity break --- complexity fallacy --- philosophy of information --- machine learning --- information quality --- information friction --- Artificial Intelligence (AI) --- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) --- Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) --- social sciences --- embodied cognition --- value alignment --- experience --- phenomenal consciousness --- access consciousness --- percept --- concept --- deep neural networks --- meaning --- understanding --- Singularity --- intuition --- wisdom


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AI AND THE SINGULARITY : A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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"AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. The group of scholars that address this question have a variety of positions on the singularity, ranging from advocates to skeptics. No conclusion can be reached, as the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is much wishful thinking and imagination in this issue rather than trustworthy data. The reader will find a cogent summary of the issues faced by researchers who are working to develop the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, artificial general intelligence. The only conclusion that can be reached is that there exists a variety of well-argued positions as to where AI research is headed.

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technological Singularity --- intelligence --- emotion --- artificial general intelligence --- artificial intelligence --- computer --- logic --- figure/ground --- computers --- consciousness --- singularity --- self --- futures --- technological singularity --- philosophy --- cosmic evolution --- anthropology --- technical singularity --- non-axiomatic reasoning system --- metasystem transitions --- patterns --- patterning --- cognition --- set theory --- language --- information --- abductive reasoning --- futurism and futurology --- hard science fiction --- models of consciousness --- intelligent machines --- machine replication --- machine evolution and optimization --- Turing test --- embodiment --- competition --- cooperation --- self-organization --- robots --- heterogeneity --- team sports --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- automated journalism --- robo-journalism --- writing algorithms --- future of news --- media ecology --- autogenous intelligence --- bootstrap fallacy --- recursive self-improvement --- self-modifying software --- superintelligence --- skepticism --- cyborg --- evolution --- love --- misinformation --- Technological Singularity --- Accelerated Change --- Artificial (General) Intelligence --- apophenia --- pareidolia --- complexity --- research focused social network --- networked minds --- complexity break --- complexity fallacy --- philosophy of information --- machine learning --- information quality --- information friction --- Artificial Intelligence (AI) --- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) --- Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) --- social sciences --- embodied cognition --- value alignment --- experience --- phenomenal consciousness --- access consciousness --- percept --- concept --- deep neural networks --- meaning --- understanding --- Singularity --- intuition --- wisdom


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AI AND THE SINGULARITY : A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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"AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. The group of scholars that address this question have a variety of positions on the singularity, ranging from advocates to skeptics. No conclusion can be reached, as the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is much wishful thinking and imagination in this issue rather than trustworthy data. The reader will find a cogent summary of the issues faced by researchers who are working to develop the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, artificial general intelligence. The only conclusion that can be reached is that there exists a variety of well-argued positions as to where AI research is headed.

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Information technology industries --- technological Singularity --- intelligence --- emotion --- artificial general intelligence --- artificial intelligence --- computer --- logic --- figure/ground --- computers --- consciousness --- singularity --- self --- futures --- technological singularity --- philosophy --- cosmic evolution --- anthropology --- technical singularity --- non-axiomatic reasoning system --- metasystem transitions --- patterns --- patterning --- cognition --- set theory --- language --- information --- abductive reasoning --- futurism and futurology --- hard science fiction --- models of consciousness --- intelligent machines --- machine replication --- machine evolution and optimization --- Turing test --- embodiment --- competition --- cooperation --- self-organization --- robots --- heterogeneity --- team sports --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- automated journalism --- robo-journalism --- writing algorithms --- future of news --- media ecology --- autogenous intelligence --- bootstrap fallacy --- recursive self-improvement --- self-modifying software --- superintelligence --- skepticism --- cyborg --- evolution --- love --- misinformation --- Technological Singularity --- Accelerated Change --- Artificial (General) Intelligence --- apophenia --- pareidolia --- complexity --- research focused social network --- networked minds --- complexity break --- complexity fallacy --- philosophy of information --- machine learning --- information quality --- information friction --- Artificial Intelligence (AI) --- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) --- Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) --- social sciences --- embodied cognition --- value alignment --- experience --- phenomenal consciousness --- access consciousness --- percept --- concept --- deep neural networks --- meaning --- understanding --- Singularity --- intuition --- wisdom


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The whole truth : a cosmologist's reflections on the search for objective reality
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ISBN: 0691231362 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press,

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From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to electrons and atoms. Today, concepts like dark matter and dark energy further complicate and enrich the search for objective reality. The Whole Truth is a personal reflection on this ongoing quest by one of the world’s most esteemed cosmologists.What lies at the heart of physical science? What are the foundational ideas that inform and guide the enterprise? Is the concept of objective reality meaningful? If so, do our established physical theories usefully approximate it? P. J. E. Peebles takes on these and other big questions about the nature of science, drawing on a lifetime of experience as a leading physicist and using cosmology as an example. He traces the history of thought about the nature of physical science since Einstein, and succinctly lays out the fundamental working assumptions. Through a careful examination of the general theory of relativity, Einstein’s cosmological principle, and the theory of an expanding universe, Peebles shows the evidence that we are discovering the nature of reality in successive approximations through increasingly demanding scrutiny.A landmark work, The Whole Truth is essential reading for anyone interested in the practice of science.

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Cosmology. --- Physics. --- Reality. --- Science --- SCIENCE / Cosmology. --- Philosophy. --- Absolute magnitude. --- Acceleration. --- Angular momentum. --- Approximation. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomy. --- Asymptotically flat spacetime. --- Atomic nucleus. --- Atomic number. --- Baryon. --- Big Bang. --- Calculation. --- Chronology of the universe. --- Classical limit. --- Classical physics. --- Comprehension (logic). --- Conservation law. --- Cosmic Evolution (book). --- Cosmological constant. --- Cosmological principle. --- Density. --- Empirical research. --- Equivalence principle. --- Existence. --- Extrapolation. --- Fred Hoyle. --- Galaxy cluster. --- Galaxy rotation curve. --- General relativity. --- George Gamow. --- Goodness of fit. --- Gravitational acceleration. --- Gravitational redshift. --- Gravity. --- Hubble's law. --- Inverse-square law. --- Jupiter. --- Kinetic energy. --- Kuiper belt. --- Length scale. --- Linear scale. --- Mach's principle. --- Mass distribution. --- Measurement. --- Metric expansion of space. --- Minkowski space. --- Modified Newtonian dynamics. --- Multiple discovery. --- NGC 2403. --- Natural science. --- Neutrino. --- Neutron. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Number density. --- Observation. --- Order of magnitude. --- Paradigm shift. --- Partial derivative. --- Particle physics in cosmology. --- Peirce (crater). --- Photon. --- Physical cosmology. --- Physical law. --- Physicist. --- Planetary nebula. --- Planetary system. --- Power law. --- Prediction. --- Predictive power. --- Present value. --- Quantum electrodynamics. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Redshift. --- Repeatability. --- Richard Feynman. --- Satellite. --- Scattering. --- Schwarzschild metric. --- Science wars. --- Scientist. --- Sirius. --- Social constructionism. --- Special relativity. --- Spiral galaxy. --- Steady State theory. --- Stellar classification. --- Supersymmetry. --- Temperature. --- Tests of general relativity. --- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of relativity. --- Theory. --- Thermal radiation. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Verificationism. --- Wavelength. --- White dwarf. --- Zero-point energy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy --- Truth --- Nominalism --- Pluralism --- Pragmatism --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology --- SCIENCE / History


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When galaxies were born : the quest for cosmic dawn
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ISBN: 0691241678 9780691241678 0691211302 9780691211305 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. When Galaxies Were Born is Richard Ellis’s firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world’s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn, the time when starlight first bathed the cosmos and galaxies emerged from darkness. In a remarkable career spanning more than forty years, Ellis has made some of the most spectacular discoveries in modern cosmology. He has traveled the world to conduct observations in locales as beautiful and remote as the Australian outback, the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and the Chilean desert. In this book, he brings to life a golden age of astronomy, describing the triumphs and the technical setbacks, the rivalries with competing teams, and the perennial challenge of cloudy nights. Ellis reveals the astonishing progress we have made in building ever larger and more powerful telescopes, and provides a tantalizing glimpse of cosmic dawn. Stunningly illustrated with a wealth of dramatic photos, When Galaxies Were Born is a bold scientific adventure enlivened by personal insights and anecdotes that enable readers to share in the thrill of discovery at the frontiers of astronomy." -- Publisher's description.

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Astronomy --- Cosmology. --- Galaxies --- SCIENCE / Astronomy. --- Observations. --- Formation. --- Absorption band. --- Age of the universe. --- American Astronomical Society. --- Ammeter. --- Anglo-Australian Telescope. --- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. --- Astronomer Royal. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Atacama Desert. --- Atacama Large Millimeter Array. --- Automation. --- British Astronomical Association. --- CERN. --- California Institute of Technology. --- Cartesian coordinate system. --- Chronology of the universe. --- Computation. --- Cosmic Evolution (book). --- Cosmic distance ladder. --- Cosmic dust. --- Cosmos Club. --- Diffusion. --- Earth's orbit. --- Ecliptic. --- Electron scattering. --- Elementary particle. --- Energy transition. --- Exploration. --- Flavour (particle physics). --- Galaxy 11. --- Galaxy cluster. --- Galaxy. --- General relativity. --- Goddard Space Flight Center. --- Gravitational lens. --- Gravity. --- Hale Telescope. --- Hawaii. --- Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- Hydrogen atom. --- Hydrogen spectral series. --- Institute for Astronomy. --- International Astronomical Union. --- Interstellar medium. --- James Webb Space Telescope. --- Jupiter. --- Las Campanas Observatory. --- Lowell Observatory. --- Ludwik Silberstein. --- Metric expansion of space. --- Molecule. --- Mount Stromlo Observatory. --- NIRCam. --- National Optical Astronomy Observatory. --- Neutrino. --- Nitrogen. --- Nucleosynthesis. --- Observational astronomy. --- Observatory. --- Optical telescope. --- Orbital period. --- Outer space. --- Palomar Observatory. --- Peculiar galaxy. --- Photon. --- Primary mirror. --- Quasar. --- Recessional velocity. --- Redshift survey. --- Redshift. --- Reflectance. --- Refracting telescope. --- Reionization. --- Result. --- Satellite galaxy. --- Semiconductor. --- Shape of the universe. --- Silicon. --- Solar neutrino. --- Space Telescope Science Institute. --- Spacecraft. --- Spaceflight. --- Spaceport. --- Spectrograph. --- Spherical aberration. --- Spitzer (bullet). --- Spitzer Space Telescope. --- Square Kilometre Array. --- Stellar classification. --- Stellar evolution. --- Structure formation. --- Sunrise. --- Switchgear. --- Telescope. --- The Astrophysical Journal. --- Twin Quasar. --- Very Large Telescope. --- Formation, Galactic --- Formation of galaxies --- Galactic formation --- Galaxy formation --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Evolution

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