On neurons and human ideation
My kid is close to 4 years and started to exhibit a very human brain process: before sleepping, he starts to remember random ideas and expresses them. Sometimes they are not only memories and plans he...
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Sorting is computationally harder than playing chess
I will argue below that sorting of a big array, using only comparison, is inherently harder than solving the problem of choosing the best next move on a chess game. One could say that it is not fair t...
Debt gives value to money
What gives value to money? There was a time when money was pure gold. Later, money was a certificate that you own a quantity of gold in bank (banknotes). Now the money are just quality paper, without...
DNA and the fabric of the Universe
The genetic code seems to not be enough to describe the complexity of a human being. In fact, it seems too small to describe most of the life forms. We could assume that the genetic code has all the i...
Genetic code (DNA) is not enough
Photo: wikipedia.org Genetic code (DNA) could be seen as the best compression algorithm that we have ever seen. Just think about it: in only around 1 GBytes, DNA could store the information to create...
The meaning of music
The meaning of music is hard to capture in words. Let's try some ideas anyway! The brain bug The brain has a natural ability to extract patterns from all the stimulus. It's a fact that we like the mus...
Mathematical incompletness and life
A friend told me once that we are living in an Universe full of unprovable truths. He was referring to the Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Without being very formal, this says that there are many mat...