Author: Toby

Consciousness more than an epi-phenomenon

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“It is worth contemplating that, though an evolutionary player Y is so easily beaten.. ..it is exactly evolution, on the hugely larger canvas of DNA-based life, that ultimately has produced X, the player with the mind.”

X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

Nice and neat idea.”After all the particles and anti-particles that could find each other collided and eliminated each other, the universe was left with some extra neutrons and a corresponding number of extra anti-dark matter particles.”With Spin Foams and Hologram inscribed event horizons, this is likely more a handy mnemonic, something like “The Left Hand Rule for Motors”, than an illumination of the Universe’s fundamental truths.  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/x-particle/