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Quartet For The End Of Time — Simon Russell Portfolio

Quartet For The End Of Time — Simon Russell Portfolio | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time premiered on 15 January 1941 in the prisoner-of-war camp where the composer was interned during World War Two
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Nov2022 Title 5: Messiaen, Fibonacci & the golden ratio: making sound measurable to explore the 'complex relationship to mathematics, music and religious belief'...
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The study of nonhuman intelligence could be missing major insights

The study of nonhuman intelligence could be missing major insights | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
There is not just one sort of mind. Different sorts of minds can then be described in terms of what they can and can’t do.
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Nov2022 Title 5: Machine minds, animal minds and 'mindspace': thinking about how to make 'intelligence' measurable by 'mapping out the space of possible minds'...
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In Our Time: S11/22 The Measurement Problem in Physics (March 5 2009)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the deepest problems in contemporary physics. It’s called the measurement problem and it emerged from the flurry of activity in the early 20th century that gave rise to Quantum Mechanics. 

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Nov2022 Title 5: Newton's apple, Schroedinger's cat & the Standard Model: How a theory of everything in physics is stalled by the 'measurement problem'... (41 mins)
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In praise of Lord Kelvin –

In praise of Lord Kelvin – | ToK Essays Nov 2024 | Scoop.it
David Saxon celebrates the great Victorian physicist
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Nov2022 TItle 5: Q5 Thermodynamics, 'siphonic recorders' & the Kelvin compass: TWE are scientific discoveries made possible by the principle 'to measure is to know'?
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