KingFelix

Whoa! This looks pretty wild, going down rabbit hole now. If I make it out I will report back!

So good!

Agreed!

Fungal networks possess a capacity for solving novel problems, such as growing through a maze to locate the shortest path to the exit. Some researchers are exploring their electrical signalling to make what they call living fungal computers—not to perform calculations, but perhaps to act as environmental sensors that can report soil quality or pollution.

That's an interesting quote from the article. Mushrooms are pretty amazing, Paul Stamets blew my mind with his Ted talk years ago, they are something else that is for sure!

Thank you, I have only recently been on HN and I love it. Its amazing, I have been on reddit forever and was just curious as to how it was on the front page for awhile. This is a pretty good explanation, I don't know why I got down voted, honestly curious about the Hacker news process of what makes it to the front page vs other things. I was stoked to hear about Penrose winning the Nobel and shocked it was on the second page vs this story. And now an article Penrose has co-authored is on the top spot! Thanks for the solid response! And RIP to EVH too, I saw VH with my pops years ago, he saw VH open for Black Sabbath back in the day and said they destroyed Black Sabbath! Madness!

Here is a which was updated in March, not sure if that is the final update or not - arxiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740

I don't fully understand hacker news I think, I am curious as to why this is still on the front page but the Nobel prize that was announced today has been on page 2 all day (unless I missed its original front page landing)

also, RIP Eddie!

He was Stephen Hawkings Teacher!

I just wrote a similar accolade, I've only recently discovered Jude and his work. He seems like a pretty awesome guy, stoked for him.

Congrats Jude and co.!

He spoke last week about it at The Towards a Science of Consciousness conference (Univeristy of Arizona) Stuart Hammeroff and Penrose have the Orc OR Theory of Consciousness. Stuarts an anesthesiologist

If you're into some awesome science Towards a Science of Consciousness conference is going on right now, amazing talks / Zoom chats with some great scientists. Join in on the conversations! https://consciousness.arizona.edu/

Anyone interested in this should check out Towards a Science of Consciousness conference going on right now. Selen Atasoy just spoke, Dennis Mckenna, Paul Stamets, Robin Carhart-Harris, and lots of other really great Psychedelic scientists. + Many many other avenues of Consciousness https://consciousness.arizona.edu/

I have a RP4 on my desk collecting dust, need to get it up and running for something useful. This post has got me motivated to find a use for it.

I had to read this a few times

Ridley Scott directed too!

Jay Sanguinetti in Tucson, U of A, is doing some really awesome stuff with Ultrasound and the brain. Anyone interested should take a look at his research,

https://www.jaysanguinetti.com/transcranial-ultrasound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEjmwaIPZk&feature=emb_logo

Ted talk - A Technoboost for Meditation

Anyone interested should check out Dr Ramachandrans research at UCSD. Capgras delusion, Phantom limb, synesthesia, mirror neurons, all great rabbit holes. Also some great documentaries, I think Secrets of the mind is one, and also the Boy with the incredible brain ( savant/ seeing shapes for math etc) Great stuff

Excellent, self promote! Diving into the site now

What's your moonshot?

also MAPS,

So now build out an experiment, see if you can play around with this filter device and see if you can find something clever. Step 2, invent something crazy, or start a cult. Good Luck!

Take mine!

Now with quad core ability!

Never been a mac person, but I do agree it appears to be a bit lackluster. Its not the same comparison, but for ~1800 a new home workstation with 2070 Super / 3900x 12 core CPU becomes a pretty powerful machine.

Love Pittsburgh, so true. Mattress factory / Warhol museum is also amazing.

Also, I believe the secondary form required is Form 27B/6

Well glad this got posted here. We just got rejected from Y comb, our tech is sci fi indeed. Alex Garlands made some sci fi that we've built (are building)

I followed the video on the link and finally sorted it all out. I was doing a few things wrong!

Voight-Kampff test

Just built a new computer with this, 3900x is a great deal. For GPU the 2070 Super is great as well