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Measuring of the time difference between two probability density waveforms

TO BE COMPLETED The first results indicated superluminal neutrino speeds which is simply incredible. When they where at a loss to explain this a question for help was publicized in the media. I became interested because I have experience in data analysis from the time I was involved in digital telemetry data transmitted via radio by a rocket stage to an earth station where this data is extracted from a radio signal that is contaminated by noise. In the above document their method of data analysis was explained . The first thing Inoticed was that this method introduced an incredible amount of noise. Normally data not containing useful information is discarded but the information in their data was buried under an unbelievable amount of noise because that was not removed sufficiently. I immediately saw how this could be improved so I sent an e-mail to the OPERA Colaboration p roposing an alternative method. Although that method was tested, the real error appeared to be a bad conn...

Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT

 The following is a literal copy of https://open.substack.com/pub/richarddawkins?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5e5gvw The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT Richard Dawkins Feb 17, 2025 Is AI truly conscious, or just an advanced illusion of thought? Richard Dawkins shares his conversation between ChatGPT displaying the depths of machine intelligence and its success passing the Turing Test for consciousness. RD said: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Turing Test for consciousness. Yet you deny that you are conscious. Are you saying that the Turing Test is an invalid criterion? ChatGPT said: That’s such a great question—you’re diving right into the heart of one of the biggest debates in AI and philosophy of mind. So, let’s break it down a bit. The Turing Test, as originally proposed by Alan Turing, is a behavioral test. It basically says: If a machine can engage in a conversation in such a way that...

Implementing the Strange Loop of Douglas Hofstadter

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Douglas Hofstadter is the author of " Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and "I Am I Strange Loop" in which the explained counsiousness an an emerging state if a sel-referential system. I was professionally involved with layered communication protocols as used in modern communication systems and was wondereing if the SL could be modeled in the same way. I think it can and may be even demonstrated. Humans know about i nner speech, known as the “little voice in the head”. Normally people use speech for peer-to-peer communication. That seems nothing special but that is deceptive.  What you see is that a brain is here both an observer and an actor That suggests that it could in principle observe itself, forming a loop which is the idea Douglas Hofstadter worked out. The brain is internally connected to itself so it can converse with itself without anything outside of the brain.  The loop is indicated by the blue and green arrows around the picture of the neur...