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Evolution of Evolution Theory

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It was a pretty big revelation for me to find out that Evolution Theory is not something that popped up a few hundred years ago. Darwin's role is much more recent and as the American zoologist and paleontologist George Simpson stated, "Darwin... finally and definitely established evolution as a fact." Before this fact being acknowledged by a modern scientific community, a lot of men of science have written about their observations. This comes only to confirm the saying that all new is well-forgotten old. The detail that old men have managed to reach is amazing. They went as far as recognizing apes as our closest relatives. The first source that came into my sight to support all this is interestingly enough of Arabic origin, The Muqaddimah. Here's an excerpt: This is the case with the simple material elements; it is the case with palms and vines, (which constitute) the last stage of plants, in their relation to snails and shellfish, (which constitute) the (low...

The Transcendent Man finds the real question, again

I just watched the movie Transcendent Man . In general it was a good documentary packing Ray Kurzweil's reflections on the exponential growth of evolution. Apart from talking about scientific predictions, there were a lot of human desires that were portrayed. Like Ray's obsession with  resurrecting some part of his father. At the end of the movie, as a conclusion, Ray was speaking about the explosion of intelligence in the Universe. I stayed for a couple of minutes, reiterating on what I have thought before and synchronizing it with what I saw in the film. I stopped at the idea of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its relevance to the Universe. All that evolution (or the Universe) has created up until now, we are gradually trying to compact it in our brains so that we can make predictions on what will happen next. We are, to our knowledge, the most flexible form of existence in our Universe. Being a bit limited though, we're looking for help to be able to do our...

Universe, Mind, AGI, mumbo jumbo

The Universe. It's there. The mind is in the Universe. It's part of the Universe. It's the Universe. We make the abstraction that what we do is decided by us. Just as the Earth can think of herself as orbiting the Sun. Earth is part of the Universe, so are we. All is natural. AGI is in the Universe. It's part of the Universe. It's the Universe. We make the abstraction that if a computer does something that seems intelligent to us, it has a mind similar to ours. What is happening actually? What is all this mumbo jumbo? Can I please have another view on the matter? The U(niverse) can have virtual U(s) in it. The creators of those U(s) are the "thinkers". They make a dense representation of the U and act upon the real U "intelligently" according to their will. For example our knowledge is that dense representation. Our will is actually the next move that was given to us. But it was given by the same U. We cannot be intelligent and be part of the U. ...

Evolution

It turns out that I have already written down some ideas on the matter: Развитието на Света (Еволюция) What (most) sciences are all about Biology, Sociology, Chemistry, History, Astrophysics, Physics... Evolution , Galaxy formation and evolution , Human evolution , Technological evolution (1)... Studying what is now, how it came to be and how it will change. How do you call this phenomenon: Universal evolution or General evolution? I think simply Evolution will do. Please fix Wikipedia's article on evolution and all those references to evolution theory concerning only living beings. Ervin László is said to be one of the men whose "goal was to explore whether it might be possible to use the chaos theory to identify a new general theory of evolution". He's the man behind the Akashic Field Theory which states that an informational field can explain why our universe appears to be fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious lifeforms; and why evolution is an informed,...

Развитието на Света (Еволюция)

Еволюция идва от латинската дума evolutio („разгръщане“, „разкриване“). В английския език се превежда като " unrolling and reading of a scroll, reading of a book". Думата е развила значението си на английски до развитие, развой . Подготвям една статия за човешкия мозък и при като направих сравнение с компютрите стигнах до следното заключение. Развитието на процесорите и архитектурите е успоредно на развитието на нервната система при организмите. Развитието на едно ново устройство от нас е като развитието на едно ново същество или нова функция на някой организъм в природата. Чрез нас природата продължава хода си и колкото и да се мислим, че сме се самоосъзнали, имаме още какво да постигнем. Само с напредък в науката ще достигнем до пълно самосъзнание, защото науката е точно това: познанието, което ни прави нещо повече от същество с първични инстинкти. Ум и знание! Природата е създала ДНК, а после и нашата мозъчна кора. Това е теорията за еволюцията в биологията. Ако говорим за...