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The Concept of Life What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life … Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay, and growth … This power of self-nutrition … is the originative power, the possession of which leads us to speak of things as living. - Aristole Why should we have a category of things we call “alive” and another category for which the word is inappropriate? [Read More]

Bitcoin and its inventor There are lots of ways to make money: You can earn it, find it, counterfeit it, steal it. Or, if you’re Satoshi Nakamoto⁠ you can invent it. - Gwern Bitcoin is a digital currency, the result of putting together old pieces of cryptographic in an extremely unpopular way https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf . The first thing people should know is: “It was all bit but no coin!”. In a period of time, something called coin would be distributed through a process that resembled a lottery The mining process . [Read More]

How did Artificial Intelligence change human life? People said: “Soon, the machines that powered by Artifical Intelligence (AI) will rule the world.” Seem like an imaginary statement; but for me, this is true. We are living in a giant Skinner’s box which is the most advanced compulsion system invented by human. People are changed their beliefs by organizations in a genius way. Instead of brutal policies that controlling people by punishment, the Walden Two system use a much better way to make people do exactly what they want without the whip but some forms of sugar coated candy. [Read More]