2016-09-12

Theories of Everything with Vernon Neppe


source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年5月23日
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is author, with physicist Edward Close, of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works. He is also author of Déjà Vu Revisited, Déjà Vu: A Second Look, Déjà Vu: Glossary and Library, Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, and Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy. His professional publications number over 700. Dr Neppe has amplified many of his concepts in two of the websites linked with his work. On www.Brainvoyage.com, his books are amplified. www.VernonNeppe.org is his gateway and includes more information on the Neppe-Close model of the Triadic Distinction Vortical Paradigm.
Here, Dr. Neppe describes his criteria for a theory that can explain consciousness in terms of modern science. He challenges the skeptical, or naturalist, position that the a priori probability of psychic phenomena is close to zero. Instead, he maintains that a true theory of everything must include what parapsychologists call psi. He also claims that theories of consciousness must include the infinite. He draws upon infinity as a way of resolving the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Friedrich Gödel. He also differentiates between feasibility and falsification regarding theories of everything.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on April 17, 2016)

In Our Time: The Great War at 100, Session 2 | Mahindra Humanities Center


source: Harvard University    2015年2月23日
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
In Our Time: The Great War at 100
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Michael Hardt On 'Common Wealth' (1-10)

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source: Eidos84    2010年10月23日
What are the prospects for social and political transformation in the age of Empire, and the possibilities of creating alternatives within and beyond contemporary power configurations? Author Michael Hardt discusses the political challenges of today, in relation to the book "Common Wealth" (co-authored with Antonio Negri).

George Berkeley - The Great Idealist (BBC In Our Time)


source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年11月22日
George Berkeley was an Anglican bishop who was one of the most important philosophers of the eighteenth century. He was an empiricist who believed that all ideas and knowledge must ultimately be based on our own sense experience, and that objects themselves are nothing but mere collections of qualities or ideas that exist in the mind, a view called immaterialism or idealism. His interests and writing ranged widely, from the science of optics to religion and the medicinal benefits of tar water. His work on the nature of perception and knowledge was a spur to many later thinkers, including David Hume and Immanuel Kant. The clarity of Berkeley's writing, and his ability to pose a profound problem in an easily understood form, has made him one of the most admired early modern thinkers.

Berkeley's subjective idealism seems crazy, but many took him to have a point. Insofar as we only have direct access to our own inner mental representations (e.g. perceptions, ideas, experiences), how could we possibly ever know, or even meaningfully speak or think about, an independent external world? As Berkeley pointed out, an idea can only resemble and represent another idea. So even if there was some underlying material substance behind the appearances, causing sensory impressions within us, we have no way of getting at such. For, we only ever encounter our own inner mental representations and can never step outside to compare such representations with some external mind-independent reality beyond.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the work of George Berkeley with Peter Millican, Tom Stoneham, and Michela Massimi. This is from the BBC radio program In Our Time.

Beyond Boundaries: Roundtable Discussion


source: Yale University    2016年7月11日
The first annual Yale STEAM Symposium featured presentations by faculty and staff on the benefits and challenges of digital methods and collaborations for research and teaching.
Rebekah Ahrendt, Department of Music: “On Letters, ‘Discovery,’ and Collaboration”
Anikó Bezur, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Technical Studies Lab
Ian McClure, Yale University Art Gallery and IPCH Conservation Lab: “Making the Invisible
Visible: How Science Advances Research in Art History and Beyond”
Amy Hungerford, Director, Division of the Humanities; English, American Studies:
“Reading, Machines, and the Humanities”
Holly Rushmeier, Computer Science: “Computer Graphic”
Moderators: Chanthia Ma, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology (MCDB), Undergraduate
Student • Gideon Fink Shapiro, Digital Humanities Lab, Postdoctoral Associate

Does God Mix with Science?

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source: Closer To Truth     2016年8月8日
Clearly, religion must speak with science: if religion claims to be an approach to the entirety of existence, then it must embed the discoveries and insights of science. Religion, at its own risk, ignores science.
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Robert B. Laughlin - Does God Mix with Science? 6:08
Bas van Fraassen - Does God Mix with Science? 5:08
David Finkelstein - Does God Mix with Science? 3:45

Breaking Male Rules | Rebecca Asher


source: The RSA    2016年8月23日
Breaking Male Rules with author Rebecca Asher. What does it mean to be a man today? There is a growing public awareness of the need to counter the negative stereotypes that have traditionally limited girls and women, but less is being done to question the accepted rules of masculinity. Rebecca Asher and our panel explore where these problems come from, and what can be done to address them.
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Radhanath Swami: "The Currency of Relationships" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年8月5日
Radhanath Swami is an international spiritual guide and NYT Bestselling author. He is a wisdom teacher & humanitarian leader, community builder and a public speaker. With illuminating references to Western religions and ideologies, his latest book: "The Journey Within" invites readers from all backgrounds to discover the simple truths that unite us. He guides readers through the essential teachings of bhakti yoga and draws from his personal experiences to demystify the ancient devotional path of bhakti, capturing its essence and explaining its simple principles for balancing our lives.

How America's Comedians Became More Intellectual than Many of Its Politicians | A.O. Scott


source: Big Think    2016年8月7日
Anti-intellectualism isn't a random cultural event in the United States. It became an essential part of a political strategy that maligned cultural elites in favor of a more populist platform. Scott's book is "Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth" (http://goo.gl/fx7Mz7).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/ao-scott-o...

Transcript - I feel like if you want to see anti-intellectualism on full display you can watch some presidential debates. I mean you can certainly look at our political discourse, some of it anyway, and see well thought and intellect is not held in the highest value. And I think that that concerns me a lot. There is a tradition, Richard Hofstadter wrote a book of probably 50 years ago now or more called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life where he identified this strain in politics and civic life of mistrust of expertise, of suspicion, of knowledge or of thought or of irony or of nuance. And I think in culture in the arts there's a lot of that too. There's a lot of spoon feeding, there's a lot that's just sort of easy and I think that it's important to recognize and to reward and encourage opposition to that, which can come in different places. I think there are champions of intellect and intelligence out there in the world. A lot of them are comedians. I mean we do live at a time where people like John Stewart or Larry Wilmore or Chris Rock or a Louis C.K. or Aziz Ansari, I mean a lot of people are out there, or Amy Schumer or Lena Dunham, are out there kind of saying look let's be smart. Let's think. Let's like not take things for granted. Let's not just accept what's given to us. And I think that that's very much a critical spirit and I think it lives in culture in the arts, but I think it's always embattled. I think it always needs to be defended, it needs to push back against the incentives to laziness and complacency and received opinion and received thinking and just sort of parroting whatever it is that comes at us.
I think there's a lot of anti-intellectualism in some of the opposition to Obama. I mean Obama is very interesting to me and has always been really interesting to me, ideology aside, is that he is an intellectual. He's a writer, he's a thinker and he has tried to be an effective political leader at the same time that he is someone who is aware of ironies and complexities. And to watch him and to hear him in some of his speeches try to reconcile those two things, to try to be kind of forceful and emphatic and clear and also recognize the complications and the shadings and the nuances in politics and in social life has been fascinating. And I think that there's been a strong reaction against that. I think one of the things that the Republicans have used against him and one of the things that Trump is certainly manifesting is precisely anti-intellectualism. It's a very powerful force because it saying you think you're so smart. You're making everything complicated. Everything is really simple. America is great.

Nachiketa Tiwari: Acoustics (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2015年3月30日
Mechanical - Acoustics by Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Intro, sound wave versus vibration, different types of waves, octave 59:57
Mod-01 Lec-02 Review: Linearity, complex numbers, and spring mass system 58:25
Mod-01 Lec-03 Review: Poles and zeroes, phase and magnitude plots 1:08:58
Mod-01 Lec-04 Review: Transfer functions, and Bode plots 1:02:46
Mod-02 Lec-01 1-D wave equation, and its solution 44:17
Mod-02 Lec-02 Solution for 1-D wave equation 41:11
Mod-02 Lec-03 Waveguides, transmission line equations, and standing waves 40:54
Mod-02 Lec-04 Waveguides,transmission line equations, and standing waves 43:32
Mod-02 Lec-05 Examples of 1-D waves in tubes, short tubes, Kundt's tube 1:12:19
Mod-02 Lec-06 Thermodynamic processes during sound transmission 42:01
Mod-02 Lec-07 Numerical examples 39:35
Mod-03 Lec-01 Sound transmission through walls 46:48
Mod-03 Lec-02 Radial propagation of sound, monopoles, and dipoles 37:59
Mod-03 Lec-03 Leakage in walls, STC Ratings, Octave bands 52:07
Mod-04 Lec-01 Instantaneous power flow 48:34
Mod-04 Lec-02 Radial propagation of sound, monopoles, and dipoles 33:56
Mod-04 Lec-03 Radial propagation of sound, monopoles, and dipoles 37:22
Mod-04 Lec-04 Radial propagation of sound, monopoles, and dipoles 36:53
Mod-04 Lec-05 Numerical examples 37:42
Mod-04 Lec-06 Numerical examples 33:34
Mod-05 Lec-01 Directivity 37:21
Mod-05 Lec-02 Directivity 33:56
Mod-05 Lec-03 Directivity 48:50
Mod-05 Lec-04 Directivity 58:08
Mod-06 Lec-01 Generalized elements 55:22
Mod-06 Lec-02 Examples of electromechanical systems 1:02:59
Mod-06 Lec-03 Transformers, radiation impedance, and Helmholtz resonator 1:08:33
Mod-06 Lec-04 Radiation impedance 35:16
Mod-06 Lec-05 Radiation impedance 37:30
Mod-06 Lec-06 Models of electro-mechanical-acoustic systems 57:45
Mod-06 Lec-07 Solution for a loudspeaker model 58:55
Mod-06 Lec-08 Microphones 1:01:17
Mod-06 Lec-09 Vibro-meter, seismometer, accelerometer, shaker table 57:11
Mod-07 Lec-01 Sound propagation in rooms, 1-D rooms, 2D rooms 45:11
Mod-07 Lec-02 Sound in 3-D rooms 45:49
Mod-07 Lec-03 Absorption coefficient, and irregular rooms 58:36
Mod-07 Lec-04 Room constant, and Sabine's coefficient 52:28
Mod-07 Lec-05 Design of a muffler 55:30
Mod-07 Lec-06 Noise in machines, basics of noise management 1:05:03

P. C. Deshmukh: Select/Special Topics in Atomic Physics (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd   2013年1月10日
Physics - Select/Special Topics in Atomic Physics by Prof. P. C. Deshmukh, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introductory lecture about this course 43:06
02 Quantum Mechanics and Symmetry of the Hydrogen Atom 46:39
03 Hydrogen atom: Rotational and Dynamical Symmetry of the 1/r Potential 50:01
04 Hydrogen atom: Dynamical Symmetry of the 1/r Potential 55:14
05 Degeneracy of the Hydrogen Atom: SO(4) 51:11
06 Wavefunctions of the Hydrogen Atom 1:01:12
07 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics 49:40
08 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics 43:52
09 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics 41:44
10 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Dimensionality of the Direct 49:10
11 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics CGC matrix 47:47
12 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics - more on ITO, and the Wigner-Eckart Theorem 46:15
13 Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Wigner-Eckart Theorem - 2 43:37
14 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - 1 48:05
15 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - 2 57:21
16 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom 58:06
17 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom 45:47
18 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom 51:12
19 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom 53:23
20 Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 1 53:42
21 Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 2 57:52
22 Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 3 46:56
23 Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 4 49:36
24 Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 5 1:02:46
25 Perturbative treatment of relativistic effects... Schrodinger's and Dirac QM 41:34
26 Perturbative treatment of relativistic effects... Schrodinger's and Dirac QM 47:15
27 Probing the atom - Collisions and Spectroscopy - boundary conditions - 1 56:10
28 Atomic Probes - Collisions and Spectroscopy - boundary conditions - 2 52:51
29 Atomic Probes - Collisions and Spectroscopy 50:34
30 Atomic Probes - Time reversal symmetry 48:13
31 Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 1 37:00
32 Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 2 59:23
33 Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 3 39:01
34 Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 4 43:19
35 Atomic Photoionization cross sections 50:51
36 Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Stark effect 49:40
37 Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy 46:18
38 Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy 56:45
39 Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Anomalous Zeeman effect 42:32
40 Zeeman effect Fine structure, Hyperfine structure 50:10

Storage Systems by K. Gopinath (IISc Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd     2014年2月5日
Computer - Storage Systems by Dr. K. Gopinath, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Overview 50:37
Mod-01 Lec-02 Storage, Processing, Networking 57:05
Mod-01 Lec-03 Naming and Storing 55:12
Mod-01 Lec-04 Storage Filesystems 1:01:04
Mod-02 Lec-05 Access Architecture, Hard Disks 57:00
Mod-02 Lec-06 SCSI 49:18
Mod-03 Lec-07 Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) 46:07
Mod-03 Lec-08 FCP, 10Gb Ethernet, iSCSI, TCP 51:10
Mod-03 Lec-09 NFS, NFSv2 56:13
Mod-03 Lec-10 NFSv2, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS 56:00
Mod-04 Lec-11 USB Storage 56:47
Mod-04 Lec-12 Tiering 56:19
Mod-04 Lec-13 Mobile/Personal/Organizational - type Storage 57:54
Mod-04 Lec-14 Parallel/Cloud/Web-scale Storage 59:18
Mod-04 Lec-15 Long-term Storage 58:13
Mod-05 Lec-16 Storage interfaces 57:51
Mod-05 Lec-17 User-Memory-CPU interactions 57:35
Mod-05 Lec-18 Spinlock, Concurrency 58:45
Mod-05 Lec-19 Block Layer design 57:47
Mod-05 Lec-20 FAT, TFAT, F2FS, LFS, FTL 56:28
Mod-06 Lec-21 Data Structures 58:41
Mod-06 Lec-22 Abstractions 58:04
Mod-06 Lec-23 Link & Write Operations 55:55
Mod-06 Lec-24 ZFS 57:36
Mod-06 Lec-25 RAID in Filesystems 56:15
Mod-06 Lec-26 RAID-Z, NetApp RAID4, Flash Filesystems 59:19
Mod-07 Lec-27 Reliability 55:26
Mod-07 Lec-28 Performance 57:51
Mod-07 Lec-29 Security 58:53
Mod-08 Lec-30 CAP Theorem 58:33
Mod-08 Lec-31 POSIX/NFS/S3/Zookeeper, ACID Vs. BASE 51:15
Mod-09 Lec-32 Consistency & Commit problems 52:13
Mod-09 Lec-33 Paxos 53:58
Mod-09 Lec-34 Group Communication problem 51:00
Mod-09 Lec-35 Message Ordering 55:44
Mod-09 Lec-36 Ordering Models 55:49
Mod-09 Lec-37 Orderings in Filesystems 56:46
Mod-09 Lec-38 Semantics of highly scalable filesystems 56:03
Mod-10 Lec-39 GFS 56:08
Mod-10 Lec-40 GFS Model 55:47
Mod-10 Lec-41 GFS functions and operations 59:11
Mod-10 Lec-42 GFS problems, BigTable 44:13
Mod-10 Lec-43 Lessons to learn 58:48

Computer Organization by S. Raman (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2008年6月4日
Computer Sc - Computer Organization by Prof. S. Raman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.

Lecture - 1 Introduction To Computing 50:46
Lecture - 2 Introduction To System : Software 50:04
Lecture - 3 Introduction To System : Hardware 51:31
Lecture - 4 Processor Activities 52:06
Lecture - 5 Processor As a State Machine 50:55
Lecture - 6 Data Path Architecture 57:09
Lecture - 7 Data Path Controller : Micro Programmed 52:24
Lecture - 8 State Machine Design 51:58
Lecture - 9 Controller Design: Microprogrammed and Hardwired 56:23
Lecture - 10 Controller Design (Contd) 50:58
Lecture - 11 Typical Micro Instructions 53:35
Lecture - 12 Addressing Modes 52:37
Lecture - 13 Problem Exercise 53:17
Lecture - 14 Problem Exercise 45:34
Lecture 15 - Introduction to memory system 54:39
Lecture - 16 CPU - Memory Interaction 52:21
Lecture - 17 Cache Organization 54:46
Lecture - 18 Cache Organization 52:35
Lecture - 19 Virtual Memory 51:59
Lecture - 20 Virtual Memory 53:04
Lecture - 21 Performance Calculation 54:23
Lecture - 22 Segmentation 52:41
Lecture - 23 Address Translation and Protection 45:51
Lecture - 24 Programmed I/O 52:32
Lecture 25 - Interrupt Driven I/O 51:57
Lecture - 26 DMA : Direct Memory Access 53:56
Lecture - 27 Device Service Routines 51:29
Lecture - 28 Evolution Of I/O 52:06
Lecture 29 - I/O devices 54:04
Lecture 30 - I/O Devices - Contd 52:03
Lecture 31 - Buses 54:00
Lecture 32 - Buses Contd 50:23
Lecture - 33 Conclusion 48:52

Richard Holmes on "Knocking on Heaven's Door: Visionary Nineteenth-Century Balloon Flights"


source: Harvard University    2014年2月13日
Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder and the forthcoming Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air.

Fighting the Clock: How America's Sleep Deficit is Damaging Longterm Health || The Forum at HSPH


source: Harvard University    2012年3月14日
The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health
Sleep deprivation has been associated with a myriad of health problems, including increased risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke and depression. Cognitive abilities decline as people tire. Risky behavior, such as driving while deeply fatigued, can put others in harm's way. This Forum event -- presented in collaboration with The Huffington Post and held just days before the country will lose an hour of sleep due to daylight saving time -- explored what we mean by "sleep deprivation," what happens in tired brains and bodies, what are the longterm health risks for children and adults, and what kinds of policies should be considered for schools and businesses to protect health. And a good night's sleep.