Daily Archives: April 12, 2012

Block spacetime, 5

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This position has lead him to face the following problem: if time is not part of the fundamental theory of the world, then how does time emerge? In 1993, in collaboration with Alain Connes, Rovelli has proposed a solution to this problem called the thermal time hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, time emerges only in a thermodynamic or statistical context. If this is correct, the flow of time is an illusion, one deriving from the incompleteness of knowledge.

— Wikipedia on Carlo Rovelli

2012.04.12 Thursday ACHK

Constructicons

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Devastator

The team’s combined form of Devastator is brutality in its purest form — his sole purpose is to destroy anything and everything that gets in his way. It is ironic that the suitably intelligent Constructicons should sacrifice their thinking ability in their combined form, but simple-mindedness is a common limitation of the assorted other first-generation combining Transformers, because Devastator’s thoughts and actions are limited to what his six components can agree upon at any given time. Consequently, Devastator seems like a being of instinct, lashing out at everything around him before contemplating the consequences, but he is also slow and lumbering and very easy to trip up.

— Wikipedia on Constructicons

2012.04.12 Thursday ACHK

Firmware 2

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軟硬智力 5 | 無足夠資料 8

這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 20 日的對話。

（安：如果智力就是「連繫意念」的能力，理論上，一個人只要「連繫到意念」，就可以成為「智者」。那樣，為什麼各人的智力，會那麼參差呢？）

各人「連繫意念」的能力有別。「連繫意念」並不是一個「只要」。它並不是一個人人皆可立刻擁有的能力。

你彷彿正在問我，為何兩部電腦的性能功用，會有所不同。我會答，因為它們的硬件有分別、軟件有差距。

硬件缺失，為之「愚蠢」。軟件不足，為之「無知」。二選其一，就可以大大減弱，你「連繫意念」的能力。

— Me@2012.04.12 

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