/sci/ - Science & Math

>here, have a letter from Einstein

"I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth." Einstein. letter to Robert A. Thornton, 7 December 1944. EA 61-574.

>>5886109
Not from /x/ man. I browse /lit/, /sci/, /out/, and /ic/. Why do you do this to yourself? You won't have any epiphanies with a closed mind.

>It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It's happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Udi_DW7p4

>>5792713
-How many terabytes/petabytes/exabytes can an average human brain hold?
-How many can it process per second?
-How far are we to making a computer that can surpass our own cognitive skills?
-When will we make a computer that can receive and understand the neuron's electric "language" between each other in the part of the brain dedicated to imagination, thus allowing humans to imagine something, and that idea is modeled with pixels in a screen?