Bots of the Future

         The vasteras giraffe is a remote controlled robot monitor that enables the elderly to communicate with friends and finally. It provides two way calling, it is essentially Skype on wheels. 42 giraffes have been delivered in 7 European countries 20 more have been recently produced.

         The robonaut 2, or the R2 manufactured by NASA and General Motors was put into action aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2012, after arriving at the station in 2011. The R2 is the first humanoid robot in space and will be joined later in the  by a Japanese communication robot. The name has a coincidental resemblance to that of the famous fictional R2 unit from the Star Wars franchise, or perhaps not so coincidental.

     Boston Dynamics cheetah robot is well on its way to becoming the fastest legged robot in the world. It can reach speeds up to twenty miles an hour and greatly resembles its predecessor; the Big Dog however this model is much sleeker. It's powered by an off-board hydraulic pump the requires the bottom to stay steady.

      

He's all Me Me Me

One of the most palpable modern paradoxes is that of the collective and universal moral hatred of arrogance. An arrogant man without merit is disregarded as a pretentious fool however the arrogant man who is correct in his exertion of self contempt is looked at with even more hatred than that who hasn't a reason for his arrogance. There, we can safely say that arrogance with merit is found to be much more offensive than arrogance without it. Why, one might ask. The answer; hidden deep, innate within the subconscious of every human being, even the most devoted and honest, is a gaping void of jealousy.  The bane of humanity one might argue, by that sense we can say that one who despises the justly arrogant, is a hypocrite himself, and the circle goes on but can always be traced to submersed envy. The discovery of this paradox is purely due to Kevin Lorthe's ponderings and experiences.

In Pursuit of Captivation

It's hard not to feel as if my mind is retrograding itself as it begins to lack the stimulation it craves. The deprivation I speak of is a void much more gaping than that left by boredom. I allude to the hole known as obsoletism, a relative lack of purpose induced, perhaps, by an excessive amount of self absolution and pity. The terrible feeling one gets when you become almost constantly self conscious of ones presence in the current moment, but in a listless regretful way. At first it was misinterpreted as Borden with peace and an obsession with conflict, but as my conflicting emotions sealed to gad themselves it became clear that I felt as though I had lost a sense of captivation that I was teeming with only a few months prior.

Welcome to the New World #cheesytitles

     Technology holds an  infinite amount potential when used for the collective good of mankind. Virtually anything is achievable through technology. Luxurious living, robust health, and the ability to ignore the more tedious tasks leaving more time for recreational activities. The modern world is teeming with technological simulations of our day to day activities that come so close to being the true digitalization of real life that the more conservative minds tend to fear them.We've established that humans have evolved to have five unique senses at their disposal to enable them to expirience the world. Technology has left us a sixth sense in its wake, the ability to access humanity's collective knowledge at a whim to suit this generation's volatility. Future generations will become so adept at using this next step in evolution that it will seem like a fifth limb of sorts, something that will be quite the spectacle for this relatively primitave generation to behold.

Problems with "God"

The traditional Christian God is meant to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibolevolent. This would essentially mean that he is the supreme being as he is said to be. However all of these unlimited qualities could not possibly exist together in one individual if they even exist at all.
    

    Let me begin by analyzing the contrasting omnipotence and omnibolevalence. If God is meant to be all powerful, than he is capabable of doing absolutley anything and everything, so does he have the power to sin? By definition yes, but if he does have the power to sin, than he is no longer omnibolevolent. Further more, though this is a seperate paradox, is God capable of concieving a task that even he himself cannot overcome? either way omnipotence of an individual cancels itself out.
  On to the limitations of his unlimited powers. If God is omniscient, than he knows everthing, with specific detail. Let's say, for example, numbers are unlimited, God should know every specific number despite the fact that they are unlimited and infinite, rendering the number of numbers incalculable. He must also have knowledge of everting that exists in spatial time, therefore having infinite knowledge as there are an infinite amount of quantum possibilities. God supposedly knows each individual possibility specifically, and he knows that he has information on every one of the infinite possibilities that exist in temporal spatiality and every number that exists despite the fact that they are both infinate and therefore are not collective. He would also know that he knows all of this. We seem to be spinning of endlessly which would be a major problem when relating this to the statistical world of science and measurement, unless we assume that God is ever expanding along with the ever expanding amount of quantum possibilities. An ever expanding enity of truths, which brings us, in some way, back to where we started.

The Paradox of Free Will

We think of ourselves as possesing free will, which should mean that we have the ability to act freely. However as I have often pondered and as this book discuses, our actions and/or our consiousness is an accumilation of past expiriences which in turn determine the choises we make, therefore we do not in fact have "free will". Even if our choices were not a direct rersult of judgment of our past expiriences, our actions would be more random than free, making it impossible to poses free will. For example if I choose to lift my left arm, the actual lifting of the arm itself is a result of various neurological impulses traveling to and through my arm and my cerebellum, scientifically speaking, the impulses happen a fraction of a milisecond before I would actually choose to lift my arm (which would be a paradox in of itself) therefore analyzed at a more detailed level, "free will" as defined remains not only incalculable and unmeasurable, but impossible either way.

This Sentence is False

I'll be doing this blog on an expository book called "This Sentence is False". As the title suggests, the book explores the metaphysical problems with contradictions and paradoxes and occasionally offers interesting probal answers to them, such as the common lair paradox of "this sentence is false" or  "I am lying". I skimmed the book and it promises to very enticing and I can't wait to take a more detailed look at the world of paradoxes and thought problems.