Weak and strong emergence by David Chalmers.
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Uncle Sam’s On Mars: Frederik Pohl ‘MAN PLUS’ and Beyond (100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels) #sf
#booktube #sciencefictionbooks #bookcollecting Steve talks you through his preferred Pohl title and the great man’s career, with some sidebar digressions into the satiric thrust of his collaborator C.M. Kornbluth. Music: Steve Holmes © https://steveholmes.bandcamp.com/
The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older than Historians Thought
The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance.
By Jo Marchant & Nature magazine.
Microsoft’s Copilot Key Reveals the Future of Windows
A new button on your keyboard is just the beginning of major changes coming to Windows in 2024.
Study: ancient technique holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries
Archaeologists have dug up mysteriously black and fertile patches of ancient soils in hundreds of sites across the Amazon. 🌎 https://www.freethink.com/science/carbon-dark-earth-ancient-technique
The team’s study appears in Science Advances. Other authors include former MIT postdoc and lead author Morgan Schmidt, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida, and collaborators from multiple institutions across Brazil.
In their current study, the team synthesized observations and data that Schmidt, Heckenberger, and others had previously gathered, while working with Indigenous communities in the Amazon since the early 2000s, with new data collected in 2018–19. The scientists focused their fieldwork in the Kuikuro Indigenous Territory in the Upper Xingu River basin in the southeastern Amazon. This region is home to modern Kuikuro villages as well as archaeological sites where the ancestors of the Kuikuro are thought to have lived. Over multiple visits to the region, Schmidt, then a graduate student at the University of Florida, was struck by the darker soil around some archaeological sites.
“When I saw this dark earth and how fertile it was, and started digging into what was known about it, I found it was a mysterious thing — no one really knew where it came from,” he says.