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Is the Universe a Hologram?: Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions

Adolfo Plasencia

Abstract

The place of discovery and generation of human knowledge has become a somewhat fuzzy area, and it is at the crossroads of equally blurred disciplines where new glimpses of the future occur. This book looks at these issues through a series of interconnected and heterodox reflections. It is much more a book of non-linear questions than one of answers, where the index consists of a list of questions with those who address the issues linked to them. In 33 dialogues, the author attempts to draw the participants, researchers and creators—each specialists—out of their “intellectual comfort zones”, an ... More

Keywords: Physical World, Intelligence, Neurons, Galaxies, Cross-fertilization, AI, Discovery and Invention, Multidimensional and primordial universe, Third culture, Provocative questions

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780262036016
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2018 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262036016.001.0001

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Adolfo Plasencia, author

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Frontispiece

Epigraph

Foreword

Acknowledgments

How This Book Came About

Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book

I The Physical World

1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account

Ignacio Cirac and Adolfo Plasencia

2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe

José Bernabéu and Adolfo Plasencia

3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible

Sara Seager and Adolfo Plasencia

4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations

Alejandro W. Rodriguez and Adolfo Plasencia

5 The Challenge of Climate Change

Mario J. Molina and Adolfo Plasencia

6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Adolfo Plasencia

7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible

Avelino Corma and Adolfo Plasencia

8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones

John Ochsendorf and Adolfo Plasencia

9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible

Javier Benedicto and Adolfo Plasencia

10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back

Yung Ho Chang and Adolfo Plasencia

11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms

Hiroshi Ishii and Adolfo Plasencia

II Information

12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Henry Jenkins and Adolfo Plasencia

13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science

Bebo White and Adolfo Plasencia

14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge

Hal Abelson and Adolfo Plasencia

15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit

Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Adolfo Plasencia

16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence

Michail Bletsas and Adolfo Plasencia

17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Adolfo Ricardo

18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology

Anne Margulies and Adolfo Plasencia

19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place

Tim O’Reilly and Adolfo Plasencia

20 Encryption as a Human Right

David Casacuberta and Adolfo Plasencia

21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology

John Perry Barlow and Adolfo Plasencia

22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic

Richard Stallman and Adolfo Plasencia

III Intelligence

23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron

Rosalind W. Picard and Adolfo Plasencia

24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Adolfo Plasencia

25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango

Israel Ruiz and Adolfo Plasencia

26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces

Jose M. Carmena and Adolfo Plasencia

27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World

Antonio Torralba and Adolfo Plasencia

28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet

Javier Echeverria and Adolfo Plasencia

29 There Will Be No End of Work

Paul Osterman and Adolfo Plasencia

30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob

Howard Rheingold and Adolfo Plasencia

31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything

José Hernández-Orallo and Adolfo Plasencia

32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo

Gianluigi Colalucci and Adolfo Plasencia

IV Epilogue

33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void

José María Yturralde and Adolfo Plasencia

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Name Index

Subject Index