Let the dice play God

We define life as the amplification of quantum uncertainty up to macroscopic scales. A living being is any amplifier that achieves this goal. We argue that everything we know about life can be explained from this idea. We study a ladder mechanism to estimate the probability that the amplification occurs spontaneously in nature. The amplification mechanism is so sensitive to small variations of its own parameters that it acts as a bifurcation itself, i.e. it implies that the universe is either everywhere dead or alive wherever possible. Since the first option is excluded by the existence of life on earth, we infer that the universe hosts a huge number of inhabited planets (possibly one per star on average). We also investigate models of conscious and unconscious learning processes, as well as the structure of the brain and evolution. Finally, we address the problem of creating artificial life

Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything

An artistic research project, exhibition and catalogue. As part of the one year MA seminar ‘Photography as Artistic Research’ we asked after the cornerstones of what it means to be human today. These processual gestures of searching for different modes of being were brought together in an exhibition and an accompanying catalogue to provoke and reach out to further ultimate questions about our various medial and inter-medial gestures of researching life, the universe, and everything as a way of being-in-the-world. Artists: Moritz Biele, Franziska Bulgrin, Meller Ehlert, Cathleen Falckenhayn, Simon Grunert, Lukas Heibges, Christian Hemmer, Ines Könitz, Wiebke Leister, Corinna Mehl, Katrin Ribbe. Opening: Wed 26 June 2019 Exhibition: 28 June - 13 July 2019 Artists Unlimited Screening: Fri 28 June Filmhaus Bielefeld Info: Dr Wiebke Leister, DAAD Visiting Professor Photography, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

The Universe, Life and Everything...Dialogues on our Changing Understanding of Reality

The way we understand the world we live in is changing. Our traditional understanding is being challenged by developments in physics, including quantum mechanics, and our inability to explain certain complex phenomena such as consciousness. In this book, scholars from a variety of backgrounds discuss how our understanding of our world is expanding to include such phenomena

Life, the Universe and Everything: An Intellectual History of Greece for the Innocent

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PERSPEKTIF FILSAFAT PENDIDIKAN ISLAM TENTANGALAM DAN LINGKUNGAN

"Alam" or universe is everything except Allah. According to the philosophical view of Islamic education, from its very first creation, it has been being in the equilibrium. The human being who is part of the universe is also in accordance with its equibrium. God has given the human being the gauide in the form of religion in order that people in general can live in such good life that they can conform with the universe equilibrium With religion, people can do their double function, as bondsmen and caliph. This writing will try to let readers know that many verses of the Holy Koran talk about people's must to conserve and to preserve the universe. Such attitude is needed and related to God but ""' people's attention to the universe preservation is less and this will cause the sorrounding to be in dangerous for them. The readers are hoped to read this article on the universe in the philosophical view of Islamic education