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Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
. Body Language & Banter
Communication Hypothesis} — That face to face communication is more powerful in some real physical sense than symbolic communication.
7-38-55 Rule — Mehrabian’s observation that the emotional content of communication is 7% words, 38% tone of voice and 55% body language.
. The Brain
Penrose-Hameroff Conjecture — Brains are quantum-gravity computers using tubulin as the mediator.
. Knowledge
Information Continuum Hypothesist — Information is finite, but understanding and knowledge are different in nature. Infinite Monkeys Hypothesis — The paradox that says monkeys could type Hamlet given enough time and paper.
Cat Experimentt — Finding my house cat can use our computer, and may be more creative than monkeys!
. Kittens & Gorillas
Feynman Proof — A proof that uses the lack of an evolved species within an evolutionary niche to disprove the existence of something; in this case polywater.
The Infinity of Primes — Pythagoras’ proof there are an infinity of prime numbers without needing the concept of a number.
. Complexity & Chaos
The Butterfly Effect — The proposal by Edward Lorenz that tiny effects can multiply up into enormous results.
P#NP — That non-deterministic polynomial problems can never be solved in polynomial time and are, therefore, beyond the capability of any imagined computer.
The Hawking-Bekenstein Turk} — Although there is a perfect chess machine, it would collapse space-time to a black hole were it to exist.
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Continuum Hypothesis — Does anything come between the first two infinities; counting numbers and the continuum of real numbers.
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