"As with Fear Factor nearly two decades ago, it's worth asking what exactly what is being watched and why? It seemed to me then, and still does, that we are watching human beings whose emotions are extracted and commodified for our entertainment. I would still argue, as I did then, that this is dehumanizing, both … Continue reading Commodified Emotions as Entertainment
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Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests
"The main idea of quantum Darwinism is that we almost never do any direct measurement on anything," Zurek told The Foundational Questions Institute in 2008. "[The environment] is like a big advertising billboard, which floats multiple copies of the information about our universe all over the place."—Kristen Houser, "Mind-Bending 'Quantum Darwinism' Theory Passes Experimental Tests." … Continue reading Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests
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