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(Português) Religião, fanatismo e política
19
Sep
The beautiful book of the philosopher Spinoza (1632 – 1677) “Theological-Political Treatise,” 1670,
is already in his time, the religious question seeing it as an excuse, that men used to hide their power ambitions and domain, for “including theologians are concerned to know how to extort the Sacred Books their own fantasies and arbitrariness, corroborating them with divine authority,” it took me years to understand this.
In argument Spinoza, God being that he was a Jew and then to Christianity without being accepted in both God actually had nothing to do with it, were the men who wanted to lend their “convictions” to God.
Everyone is orthodox to himself, that is, it is considered the bearer of the true faith, which predisposes anyone toward the faith of others, it was born in his time the dispute between Lutherans and Catholics, which led to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), but even without a peace and tolerance to the present day. So, you need to prevent a sure how this degenerating into civil war, but for the philosopher true religion was not attached to the power or wealth, nor the clergy of the domain, and other “lay” powers, and had nothing to do with the massacres.
Locke can be considered the first modern theory of separation of church and state, for it was to demarcate by law, definitively, the functions of the priestly world and the political world, otherwise the confusion between what concerns the Church and referred to the community, to this day still mixing the salvation of souls with the safety of the community and the state that represents it.
Luigino Bruni, an economist with a measure of religiosity, in his article “Common good and the economy: for an economy based on agape,” explained the difference between the common good and community and public, explains: “hi replaced by ‘public good ‘and’ Community ‘; closer observation of these concepts, however, reveals that its meaning is exactly the opposite of the traditions of the (economy) classical and Christian tradition of ‘common good’, given that both the ‘public good’ or the ‘Community’ they are essentially individualist, with no consequences for relations with the other during the consumption process. “See the article on these link.
Francis Bacon said that “shallow” philosophy leads to atheism, and deep religion, but it is necessary to overcome fanaticism and dogmatism.
Sensor artificial tact
03
Nov
Among the various wearable technology (announced with the next ‘wave’), 
is the interesting work on an “artificial” feel, published in the jornal Science.
Second Zhenan Bao the researcher, flexible type of sensor produces a pulse pattern which is immediately recognized by the nervous system, while initially placed hand, this feature enables be used in other parts of the body.
The researcher said: “With plastic materials, we and other researchers in this area had already succeeded in producing touch-sensitive sensors – but the electrical signal coming out of these sensors was not the right format to be interpreted by the brain”.
Other models of computer processing needed to produce the sensation of “touch”, as this produces the pulses directly.
The use of plastic makes the flexible material, and the sensors can be useful in other wearable technology equipment, as stated, “The sensors are very thin and flexible, and are also elastic Then you could mount a sensor on your skin and use. it does to detect vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure. ”
Just below this layer of “skin” for a printed electronic circuit that functions as an oscillator, which transforms the varying current in a series of impulses. With more pressure and more current, the rate of pulses rises.
USP conducts a “Scientific Turn”
17
Oct
With over 300 free activities, today and tomorrow (17 and 18/10) the first edition
of Scientific Turn (Virada Científica) na upset held this year 2015.
The event is a partnership between the Dean of Culture and University Extension (PRCEU) and the Ministry of Science of Brazil, Technology and Innovation will offer, within 24 hours.
According to Eduardo Cooli, general big news event coordinator is in Praça do Relógio (Clock Square), located in center of University City, with circus workshops and performances starring the Circusp, with the intention of creating a larger movement in this square which is quite central.
There shall also Ciencidade Stage, where there will be some attractions like “Do skate the visual arts”, “Cancer: learn to control” and others.All eight USP units will have activities: São Carlos, Bauru, Pirassununga and Lorraine in the capital are included units of EACH (School Of Arts, Science and Humanities) and the Casa de Dona Yaya.
I will be giving a lecture on “Operation and peculiarities of Social Networks” the 17 hours in the Geoscience Institute at 17 hours.
Intelligent agents are happening
16
Jun
In a recent article in CIO Australia, many new jobs are
being proposed to increase the services where intelligent agents can be used, they include: services to tag pictures and verify that these markings popular with users on Facebook, Baidu is working on a technology to put an adjoining voice capacity for its search engine allowing users to chat via smartphones or other devices, the Department of Defense and the Australian Technology Organization is trying a technology with intelligent agents to control autonomous drones operating in sea, land and air mapping using satellite and which seems particularly interesting IBM is training your supercomputer Watson to ask questions of human experts and help them with tasks such as drug discovery and document classification.
The report does not explain much of each of these surveys, but talk show-type question and answer, called Jeopardy in the US, the Watson computer won human.
The idea that we can classify documents and assist the organization in a universe with just enough disorder is a very simple idea because all chaos has an order, and complex because it requires the processing of billions of data, and therefore information, entropy which is a Indeed since the beginning of history but does not address something else that the very idea that it is possible to organize it is also possible to develop a process of self-organization, not automatic but likely to be suggestible and manageable.
Tom Simonite, author of an article in MIT Technology Review, described a test of the new feature Watson, made in the Environment Cognitive Lab of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, with a laboratory equipped with a conference room with microphones to listen and convey all what they say in the meeting, the software used there apparently takes all inputs speech and transcribes them in real time to feed it to the computer and Watson did this with various experts.
The area of intelligent agents promises to be the next big disruptive technology of the decade.
Multiple intelligence: philosophy and virtual
09
Mar
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by the American psychologist Howard Gardner, around of 1980 years.
It is an alternative to the idea of innate ability, born of idealistic philosophy and running through most of the psychological chains of today, challenges the idea of IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and also those ideas that focus on all skills in school.
Introduces the concept that different professionals should have different cultures, a repertoire of human skills to help them in solutions, culturally appropriate, to resolve their personal, family and social problems.
Gardner worked in reverse the idea of development, thinking more about what skills have resulted in human achievements, and said:
“A) the development of different abilities in normal children and gifted children; (B) adults with brain injuries and how they do not lose the intensity of their intellectual production, but one or a few skills, while other skills are even affected; (C) exceptional said populations, such as idiot-savants and autism, and how the former can have only one competence, being quite unable in other brain functions, while autistic children have absences in their intellectual abilities; (D) how was the cognitive development across the millennia “(Gardner, 1985).
Idiot-savants or savantism (the French savant, “wise”) is considered a mental disorder in which the person has great intellectual ability combined with an intelligence deficit.
Linguistic intelligence are the components of sensitivity to sounds, rhythms and meanings of words, as though the music associated with the first intelligence manifests the ability to enjoy, compose or play a piece of music, logical-mathematical is sensitivity to patterns, order and systematization, spatial ability to perceive the visual or spatial world, puzzles and games that require visual skills, kinesthetic is the ability to create products through the use of part or all of the body is how to produce and grace expressions from verbal or musical stimuli using some coordinated muscle or athletic ability, interpersonal ability to understand and respond appropriately to moods, temperaments and motivations of other people and finally, and finally intrapersonal intelligence is organizing one’s own feelings, dreams and ideas and can make use of this resource for solving personal or social problems.
The virtual world is related to all of them and not only intrapersonal as one might think and this study is true not only for autistic and gifted people, but for everyone.
The interface that changed the lives of Hawking
09
Dec
The physicist Stephen Hawking, developer of the Big Bang theory, is quadriplegic and collaborated with Intel founder
Gordon Moore to develop a more efficient technology to control the computer interface for people without the tactile control and now the interface code will be made available in January 2015.
The environment is called Context Aware Assistive Toolkit (ACAT) which has three basic components: a cheek movement of the input sensor to the item selection screen, an interface that chooses the letters to make words and software for interaction communication with the Web browser that anticipates what Hawking want to type when choosing letters.
The engineer Intel Lama Nachman Intel explains that Hawking wanted something “to the look and feel interface options made, but something more effective and fast to operate.”
In Tech Republic magazine article, Hawking says the software, which will now be open source, has changed their lives and allowed to continue his work in the development of physics.
Hawking said to the magazine that “as technology has more specialized it opens up possibilities that I could not even predict. The technology being developed to support people with disabilities is leading the way to break the communication barriers that once stood in the way, “he said.
“This new system is a lifestyle change for me and I hope it will serve me well for the next 20 years.”, And we hope that with open source there are more developers supporting persons with disabilities.
