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    Shape of Universe: Is Flatness Approved? Causes of Big Crunch

    Thanks Chalnoth for the correction. I was in fact thinking of the origins of the universe and the highly plausible big bang model. For example, the paradox of rapid inflation, at speeds faster than light, boggles the mind. It seems humans cannot adequately explain what preceeded creation...
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    Shape of Universe: Is Flatness Approved? Causes of Big Crunch

    My thoughts exactly. Ultimately, cosmology is a philosophical problem with inputs from physics. - CW
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    The Effects of Dumping Nuclear Waste into the Sun

    DH: Thanks for the explanation, very interesting. - CW
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    The Effects of Dumping Nuclear Waste into the Sun

    Stars are fusion engines, converting hydrogen into helium into lithium, etc. and releasing the resulting energy. I read in "The Grand Design" that the instant fusion progresses to the point where manganese is converted into iron, a supernova is triggered. Would introducing heavy elements...
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    Is Consciousness Simple or Complex?

    "In fact, many projects are currently under way to reproduce brain architecture in computers; snip. To the computer world, the brain architecture is rather novel." Thanks, P. My point exactly, animal brains are very old, while computers are relatively new human artifacts patterned after our...
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    Is Consciousness Simple or Complex?

    Art imitates life. Modern computers reflect the function and architecture of the human brain, they have been created "in our own image". Accordingly, consciousness exists in the brain's cyberspace. It is one aspect of the phenomenology of mind. - CW
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