Most species that have lived on Earth have gone extinct. Life on this planet exists because of microscopic life. Life is majority bacteria by sheer mass and how those bacteria respond pretty well determines if we live or go extinct.…
Category: Humanity
Brexit Blues and all that Jazz.
Britain grew to be an economic powerhouse by Britons travelling far and wide. We created new countries and transformed old ones whether you like that or not and we have left a legacy of culture, the most prominent of which…
The New Atheist
I am the atheist in that I have never known a state of having any belief in god. If you consider how belief is formed in your brain then whatever neuro-chemical pathways are needed: I don’t have those and I’m…
Physical verses Information Theoretic
The Credodia project‘s first program is storage of the memories that make up you. There is a goal that in time the recovery of these memories from storage, the copy to a new platform and then the re-animation will be…
The Conflict of Interests
Jimmy Wales was at the recent Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting held at the Vatican towards the end of April in 2012 and he was quoted by the Catholic News Service as praising the Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in…
Continuity of Memory
We are human because of our technology. Few of us can remove all of our technology and live outside in nature. In the winter most of the population would be dead of hypothermia in hours and in summer we would…
Evolving existence
The answer to human existential problems becomes very easy if you take responsibility for these. It’s a simple step for anyone, but a vast leap for all, Who gives us purpose ? The answer is that we give us purpose.…
The profits of the null hypothesis.
The null hypothesis has a useful property – it can never be proven. Test results either reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis, they never prove the hypothesis. The science of statistics allows companies to test products and make…
Things they haven’t told you on Purpose.
I now know that the problem of deciding your purpose in life can be remarkably easy to resolve. The problem becomes much clearer when you cut through the fog of nonsense that religion, specifically, and society, in general, uses to…