This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature | Surprising Science
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This is pretty damn cool, and it makes me miss my days of getting to play with electron microscopes.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
As above, so below.
Perhaps all patterns, designs, and mechanisms are recurring on both a macro and micro level. I wouldn't be surprised if they figured out the universe was a giant brain.
Or that human societies actually functioned like micro-organisms over the span of their existence.
Maybe everything we "invent" is simply a manifestation of patterns/designs already etched into the fabric of nature itself (and by extension, our consciousness).
I'm rambling and have no fucking idea what I'm talking about.
Cool find, though
Perhaps all patterns, designs, and mechanisms are recurring on both a macro and micro level. I wouldn't be surprised if they figured out the universe was a giant brain.
Or that human societies actually functioned like micro-organisms over the span of their existence.
Maybe everything we "invent" is simply a manifestation of patterns/designs already etched into the fabric of nature itself (and by extension, our consciousness).
I'm rambling and have no fucking idea what I'm talking about.
Cool find, though
^ GimpSpack, I think you're pretty close. The most damning evidence for me is how modern operating systems are designed and how similar our human brain functions.
For example: we've got background processes and we've got foreground programs that constitute what/who we are. Processes are habits, they're not self-evident, because if they were we wouldn't be able to function in daily life. They affect the outcome of our lives though and new habits are hard to acquire (code and test) and in general you don't fuck with an OSs processes unless performance is less than satisfactory or something is very wrong.
Multi-tasking a bunch of smaller tasks may be fine but if I give you 2 resource consuming apps, your hardware won't handle it and you'll crash. That's why learning is done in smaller steps and you don't just throw heaps on your CPU. You let it run to completion and then you run the next one, etc...
What about "memes" and "virals". Aren't those just human consciousness viruses? The electrical load they generate (emotion) is so great that we just HAVE to spread it further. That's just a theory, because we'll still like and share without thinking about it, and that's what a successful virus does: it spreads itself without alerting the host.
I'm sure the examples are endless. That's not to say that we all have the same hardware or software. Some people are optimized for some tasks and less for others. Each one is unique. But the OS layout is pretty similar. Successful people have thoroughly optimized processes. They don't even think about them. But you can bet your ass they did get down and dirty in code and tested those programs (comfort zone) before they got there. I could go on..
For example: we've got background processes and we've got foreground programs that constitute what/who we are. Processes are habits, they're not self-evident, because if they were we wouldn't be able to function in daily life. They affect the outcome of our lives though and new habits are hard to acquire (code and test) and in general you don't fuck with an OSs processes unless performance is less than satisfactory or something is very wrong.
Multi-tasking a bunch of smaller tasks may be fine but if I give you 2 resource consuming apps, your hardware won't handle it and you'll crash. That's why learning is done in smaller steps and you don't just throw heaps on your CPU. You let it run to completion and then you run the next one, etc...
What about "memes" and "virals". Aren't those just human consciousness viruses? The electrical load they generate (emotion) is so great that we just HAVE to spread it further. That's just a theory, because we'll still like and share without thinking about it, and that's what a successful virus does: it spreads itself without alerting the host.
I'm sure the examples are endless. That's not to say that we all have the same hardware or software. Some people are optimized for some tasks and less for others. Each one is unique. But the OS layout is pretty similar. Successful people have thoroughly optimized processes. They don't even think about them. But you can bet your ass they did get down and dirty in code and tested those programs (comfort zone) before they got there. I could go on..
^I've thought about the whole computer/OS/human cognition comparison before, but you really worded it eloquently. I also see what you're saying about memes and the viral effect.
It would be interesting to see if they eventually discover nature has its own equivalent to the internet lol
It would be interesting to see if they eventually discover nature has its own equivalent to the internet lol
Every day I'm more amazed at how little we actually understand about this place we inhabit called reality. I feel like shit's only going to get stranger the deeper we go into the quantum world.
@gimpsack: We are the universes brain. We are the universe experiencing and feeling itself. Think about it. We are just hydrogen atoms that were left to their own devices for so long, that they began to think about where they came from. All the tiny building blocks that make us, formed from stars, which came from simple hydrogen atoms.
Reality is a giant unknown unknown. We don't know what we don't know, and probably will never have the capacity to contemplate it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson said that infinity and the universe are so big, that everything that has happened on earth has without a doubt already happened somewhere else in space and time. You sitting at your computer right now, has already been replicated elsewhere, exactly the same way. The very nature of infinity creates the possibility for anything and everything to happen, simultaneously, across existence.
@gimpsack: We are the universes brain. We are the universe experiencing and feeling itself. Think about it. We are just hydrogen atoms that were left to their own devices for so long, that they began to think about where they came from. All the tiny building blocks that make us, formed from stars, which came from simple hydrogen atoms.
Reality is a giant unknown unknown. We don't know what we don't know, and probably will never have the capacity to contemplate it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson said that infinity and the universe are so big, that everything that has happened on earth has without a doubt already happened somewhere else in space and time. You sitting at your computer right now, has already been replicated elsewhere, exactly the same way. The very nature of infinity creates the possibility for anything and everything to happen, simultaneously, across existence.