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09 November 2009
Why did HAL sing 'Daisy'?
Okay, so this may not be important breaking news about astronomy, but it may answer a burning question posed by most people who have watched  or read "2001: A Space Odyssey": that is, why does the computer HAL-9000 sing the song 'Daisy Bell' as the astronaut Dave Bowman takes him apart? Well, Stanley Kubrick and [...]
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15 January 2008
Our Virtual Reality Universe
What if the Universe was in fact a simulation? A product of some information processor, creating space and time, energy and matter? What if the Big Bang was the whole simulation booting up, beginning billions of years of space and time calculations? Can we possibly understand our consciousness as a subroutine in an advanced number crunching machine? A [...]
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