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The Possible Necessity of Consciousness as an Emergent Property of a Highly Complex Successfully Systems The thought came to me while listening to Steven Johnson talk about emergence. I read his book a few years ago, and its ideas never left me. The core of emergence is this, amazingly complex and intricate properties can arise from a seemingly simple set of rules. An ant colony is a classic example of this. By themselves each ant is well…stupid, but as a colony they are capable of amazing feats of seemingly intelligence. Our brains are another example of this, neurons and neutral connections somehow give rise…well to us, meaning t

HealthCare for Dummies For everyone confused about the 2,000 plus page healthcare bill, to the point where know one knows whether they should be for it or against it, let me break it down. If you have insurance, you can keep it, but your premium will continue to rise 25 percent over the next 10 months and 500 percent over the next ten years, as the deficit increases by the same amount. If you don’t have health insurance you can buy coverage for a discount, of course if you’re paying nothing now,  a 10 percent discount from $5000 still won’t leave you enough cash to afford rent, you can always opt for a public plan, in Cuba,

Thoughts on the Cross... Probably went something like this “Oouch! Christ, that hurts.  Hmmm… gotta stop talking to myself.” A couple friends and I were talking about our childhood, especially growing up Catholic. All of us had the same experience of, when we were young children, around the ages that you are generally afraid of monsters, the dark, the things under your bed, to comfort us our parents/grandparents would point to the crucifix on the on the wall and tell us he will protect us. “Him? Uh…he didn’t do a very good job protecting himself!” We all laughed at the absurdity of it. But that’s o