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Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
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published: 15 Aug 2012
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Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 The Universe in a Nutshell: The Physics of Everything Michio Kaku, Henry Se...- published: 15 Aug 2012
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Michio Kaku (2014) "The Future of the Mind"
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published: 02 Apr 2014
Michio Kaku (2014) "The Future of the Mind"
Michio Kaku (2014) "The Future of the Mind"
Subscribe For Michio Kaku's Speeches, Interviews, and Debates!- published: 02 Apr 2014
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Michio Kaku - Can you build a real Lightsaber ?
Dr. Michio Kaku attempts to build a real Lightsaber from the Star Wars universe using mode...
published: 05 Mar 2014
Michio Kaku - Can you build a real Lightsaber ?
Michio Kaku - Can you build a real Lightsaber ?
Dr. Michio Kaku attempts to build a real Lightsaber from the Star Wars universe using modern technology- published: 05 Mar 2014
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Albert Einstein- Full History Documentary With Michio Kaku
Albert Einstein- Full History Documentary With Michio Kaku Einstein, Albert Einstein, Albe...
published: 17 Apr 2014
author: Discovery TV
Albert Einstein- Full History Documentary With Michio Kaku
Albert Einstein- Full History Documentary With Michio Kaku
Albert Einstein- Full History Documentary With Michio Kaku Einstein, Albert Einstein, Albert, relativity, Michio kaku, Theory of Relativity, Einstein Documen...- published: 17 Apr 2014
- views: 4179
- author: Discovery TV
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Michio Kaku: Books, Education, Dark Matter, Explorations, Quotes, Religion - Interview (2010)
Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat ...
published: 30 Oct 2013
author: The Film Archives
Michio Kaku: Books, Education, Dark Matter, Explorations, Quotes, Religion - Interview (2010)
Michio Kaku: Books, Education, Dark Matter, Explorations, Quotes, Religion - Interview (2010)
Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York, a...- published: 30 Oct 2013
- views: 85025
- author: The Film Archives
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Michio Kaku on Alien Brains
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published: 10 Mar 2014
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Michio Kaku on Alien Brains
Michio Kaku on Alien Brains
Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, T...- published: 10 Mar 2014
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Michio Kaku on Singularity 1 on 1: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!
http://www.singularityweblog.com/michio-kaku-future-of-the-mind/
Dr. Michio Kaku is a the...
published: 06 Jun 2014
Michio Kaku on Singularity 1 on 1: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!
Michio Kaku on Singularity 1 on 1: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!
http://www.singularityweblog.com/michio-kaku-future-of-the-mind/ Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein's quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything. You will not be surprised to hear that Michio Kaku has been on my guest dream-list since I started Singularity 1 on 1, and I was beyond ecstatic to finally have an opportunity to speak to him. During our 90 min conversation with Dr. Michio Kaku we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why he shifted his focus from the universe to the human mind; his definition, classification and ranking of consciousness; his take on the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR model; Newton, Einstein, determinism and free will; whether the brain is a classical computer or not; Norman Doidge's work on neuro-plasticity and The Brain That Changes Itself; the underlying reality of everything; his dream to finish what Einstein has started and know the mind of God; The Future of the Mind; mind-uploading and space travel at the speed of light; Moore's Law and D-Wave's quantum computer; the Human Brain Project and whole brain simulation; alternatives paths to AI and the Turing Test as a way of judging progress; cryonics and what is possible and impossible...- published: 06 Jun 2014
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Michio Kaku: What does the future look like? - SSHF
Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at City University of New York shares hi...
published: 06 Mar 2013
author: Humaid Al Ali
Michio Kaku: What does the future look like? - SSHF
Michio Kaku: What does the future look like? - SSHF
Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at City University of New York shares his vision of mankind's future at Abu Dhabi's Manarat Al Saadiyat as ...- published: 06 Mar 2013
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- author: Humaid Al Ali
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Dr Michio Kaku - Our Future, String Field Theory, and the Multiverse
Dr. Michio Kaku
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Regina Campbell interviews Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr. Kak...
published: 02 Oct 2013
Dr Michio Kaku - Our Future, String Field Theory, and the Multiverse
Dr Michio Kaku - Our Future, String Field Theory, and the Multiverse
Dr. Michio Kaku http://mkaku.org/ Regina Campbell interviews Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr. Kaku speaks about what creates our reality, the Deity, String Field Theory, the Universe, parallel dimensons, alternate universes and the Multiverse. Taken from Regina Meredith's website - gaiamtv.com.- published: 02 Oct 2013
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Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified
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published: 04 Mar 2014
Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified
Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified
Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1mcGeb). Here he explains how the quantifying approach common in physics can be used to model consciousness. Transcript: In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself. And second of all the origin of intelligence. Believe it or not, sitting on our shoulders is the most complex object that Mother Nature has created in the known universe. You have to go at least 24 trillion miles to the nearest star to find a planet that may have life and may have intelligence. And yet our brain only consumes about 20-30 watts of power and yet it performs calculations better than any large supercomputer. So it's a mystery. How is the brain wired up? And if we can figure that out what can we do with it to enhance our mental capabilities. When you look at the brain and all the parts of the brain they don't seem to make any sense at all. The visual part of the brain is way in the back, for example. Why is the brain constructed the way it is? Is this nothing but an accident of evolution? Well one way to look at it is through evolution. That is, the back of the brain is a so-called reptilian brain. The most ancient primitive part of the brain that governs balance, territoriality, mating. And so the very back of the brain is also the kind of brain that you find in reptiles. Now when I was a child I would go to the science museum and look at the snakes sometimes and they would stare back at me. And I would wonder, "What are they thinking about?" Well, I think now I know. What they're thinking about was, "Is this person lunch?" Then we have the center part of the brain going forward and that's a so-called monkey brain, the mammalian brain. The brain of emotions. The brain of social hierarchies. And then finally the front of the brain is the human brain, especially the prefrontal cortex. This is where rational thinking is. And when you ask yourself a question where am I anyway. The answer is right behind your forehead. That's where you really are. Well, I have a theory of consciousness which tries to wrap it all up together. There've been about 20,000 or so papers written about consciousness and no consensus. Never in the history of science have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little. Well, I'm a physicist and when we physicists look at a mysterious object the first thing we try to do is to create a model. A model of this object in space. And then we hit the play button and run it forward in time. This is how Newton was able to come up with the theory of gravity. This is how Einstein came up with relativity. So I tried to use this in terms of the human brain and evolution. So what I'm saying is I have a new theory of consciousness based on evolution. And that is consciousness is the number of feedback loops required to create a model of your position in space with relationship to other organisms and finally in relationship to time. So think of the consciousness of a thermostat. I believe that even a lowly thermostat has one unit of consciousness. That is, it senses the temperature around it. And then we have a flower. A flower has maybe, maybe ten units of consciousness. It has to understand the temperature, the weather, humidity, where gravity is pointing. And then finally we go to the reptilian brain which I call level 1 consciousness and reptiles basically have a very good understanding of their position in space, especially because they have to lunge out and grab prey. Then we have level 2 consciousness, the monkey consciousness. The consciousness of emotions, social hierarchies, where are we in relationship to the tribe. And then where are we as humans. As humans we are at level 3. We run simulations into the future. Animals apparently don't do this. They don't plan to hibernate. They don't plan the next day's agenda. They have no conception of tomorrow to the best of our ability. But that's what our brain does. Our brain is a prediction machine. And so when we look at the evolution from the reptilian brain to the mammalian brain to the prefrontal cortex, we realize that is the process of understanding our position in space with respect to others -- that is emotions -- and finally running simulations into the future. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Dillon Fitton- published: 04 Mar 2014
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Michio Kaku: The Supergenius
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published: 15 May 2014
Michio Kaku: The Supergenius
Michio Kaku: The Supergenius
Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1mcGeb). Here Dr. Kaku discusses Asperger syndrome, autism, savants, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton... and the characters on CBS' The Big Bang Theory. New York City skyline image: http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk For the curious: http://goo.gl/k5qCWP For the curioser: http://goo.gl/z70aRG Transcript - If you watch the Big Bang Theory on CBS television you see these clueless nerds who are doormats when ti comes to the opposite sex, right. And you realize is there any basis in reality? First of all none of my friends are like that and all my friends are physicists, right. Well there is a kernel of truth and that is some of these individuals may suffer from something called Asperger's Syndrome which is a mild form of autism. These people are clueless when it comes to social interactions. They don't look you in the eye, for example. And yet they have fantastic mental and mathematical capabilities. We think, for example, that Isaac Newton had Asperger's. The greatest scientist of all time was very strange. He had no friends to speak of. He could not carry a decent conversation and yet here he was spitting out some of the greatest theories in the history of science. Calculus. The Universal Law of Gravitation. The Theory of Optics. And we think he had Asperger's Syndrome. Now Asperger's Syndrome is a mild form of autism and in autism we have what are called savants. That is people that have an IQ of maybe 80 but have incredible mathematical and musical abilities. In fact, some of these individuals can hear one symphony and just play it by memory on a piano. Other people could be in a helicopter, have a helicopter ride over Manhattan, see the entire New York harbor and then from memory sketch the entire harbor. In fact, if you want to see it go to JFK Airport in New York City and you will see it as you enter the international terminal. So what is it about these people? Well, first of all a lot of them had injuries to the left temporal lobe. One individual had a bullet as a child go right through the left temporal lobe. Another person dived into a swimming pool and injured very badly the left temporal lobe. And these people wound up with incredible mathematical abilities as a consequence. And so what is it about their brains? Well Einstein's brain has actually been preserved. Einstein when he died had an autopsy in which case the pathologist stole the brain without permission of the family. He just realized that he was sitting next to something historic, took the brain, took it home with him and it was sitting in a jar in his home for decades. He even drove across the country with the jar inside his trunk. And there's even a TV special where you can actually see the cut up brain of Albert Einstein. And you realize first of all the brain is a little bit different. You can't tell by looking at it that it's so remarkably different but you realize that the connections between the prefontal cortex and the parietal lobe -- a connection that is accentuated in people that do abstract reasoning is thickened. So there definitely is a difference in the brain of Einstein. But the question is did it make Einstein or did Einstein make this change of the brain? Are champions born or are they made? That still is not known because people who exercise mental abilities, mathematical abilities, they can thicken that part of the brain themselves. So we know that people who do well in mathematics brain scans clearly show that their brains are slightly different from the average brain. So in conclusion, we're still children with regards to understanding how this process takes place. Tonight don't go home and bang yourself on the left temporal lobe. We don't know how it works. We just know that in a tiny fraction of these cases people with injury to the left temporal lobe, some of the become super geniuses.- published: 15 May 2014
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The Big Bang - Lawrence Krauss and Michio Kaku
Professor Lawrence Krauss and Professor Michio Kaku explain the physics behind the events ...
published: 20 Sep 2012
author: Muon Ray
The Big Bang - Lawrence Krauss and Michio Kaku
The Big Bang - Lawrence Krauss and Michio Kaku
Professor Lawrence Krauss and Professor Michio Kaku explain the physics behind the events in the first second of The Big Bang, events which range from the fi...- published: 20 Sep 2012
- views: 181199
- author: Muon Ray
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Uploading Consciousness & Digital Immortality | Interview with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku
Breaking the Set's Manuel Rapalo speaks with theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku, about his...
published: 29 Mar 2014
Uploading Consciousness & Digital Immortality | Interview with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku
Uploading Consciousness & Digital Immortality | Interview with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku
Breaking the Set's Manuel Rapalo speaks with theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku, about his latest book 'The Future of the Mind' discussing a the how realistic it would be to digitally upload memories and consciousness, and why we're living in the 'Golden Age' of studying the human mind. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Manuel Rapalo @ http://twitter.com/Manuel_Rapalo- published: 29 Mar 2014
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Michio Kaku Explains String Theory
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains the basics of String Theory in this clip from h...
published: 07 Dec 2011
author: FloatingUniversity
Michio Kaku Explains String Theory
Michio Kaku Explains String Theory
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains the basics of String Theory in this clip from his Floating University lecture. Find out more at: http://www.floati...- published: 07 Dec 2011
- views: 707430
- author: FloatingUniversity
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Michio Kaku: Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
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published: 31 May 2011
author: Big Think
Michio Kaku: Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
Michio Kaku: Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
http://bigthink.com The physicist sees two major trends in the world today: the first is toward a multicultural, scientific, tolerant society; the other, as ...- published: 31 May 2011
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- author: Big Think
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Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence
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published: 25 Mar 2014
Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence
Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence
Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscribe by clicking here: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1mcGeb). Here he explains the evolution of human intelligence. Transcipt - Some people think that intelligence is the crowning achievement of evolution. Well if that's true there should be more intelligent creatures on the planet Earth. But to the best of our knowledge we're the only ones. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for roughly 200 million years and to the best of our knowledge not a single dinosaur became intelligent. We humans, modern humans, had been on the Earth for roughly a hundred thousand years. Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years that the Earth has been around. So you come to the rather astounding conclusion that intelligence is not really necessary. That Mother Nature has done perfectly well with non-intelligent creatures for millions of years and that we as intelligent creatures are the new kid on the block. And so then you begin to wonder how did we become intelligent? What separated us from the animals? Well there are basically three ingredients -- at least three that help to propel us to become intelligent. One is the opposable thumb. You need a tentacle, a claw, an opposable thumb in order to manipulate the environment. So that's one of the ingredients of intelligence -- to be able to change the world around you. Second is eyesight. But the eyesight of a predator. We have eyes to the front of our face, not to the side of our face and why? Animals with eyes to the front of their face are predators -- lions, tigers and foxes. Animals with eyes to the side of their face are prey and they are not as intelligent -- like a rabbit. We say dumb bunny and smart as a fox. And there's a reason for that. Because the fox is a predator. It has to learn how to ambush. It has to learn how to have stealth, camouflage. It has to psych out the enemy and anticipate the motion of the enemy that is its prey. If you're a dumb bunny all you have to do is run. And the third basic ingredient is language because you have to be able to communicate your knowledge to the next generation. And to the best of our knowledge animals do not communicate knowledge to their offspring other than by simply communicating certain primitive motions. There's no book. There's no language. There's no culture by which animals can communicate their knowledge to the next generation. And so we think that's how the brain evolved. We have an opposable thumb, we have a language of maybe five to ten thousand words. And we have eyesight that is stereo eyesight -- the eyesight of a predator. And predators seem to be smarter than prey. Then you ask another question. How many animals on the Earth satisfy these three basic ingredients. And then you come to the astounding conclusion -- the answer is almost none. So perhaps there's a reason why we became intelligent and the other animals did not. They did not have the basic ingredients that would one day propel us to become intelligent. Then the next question asked in Planet of the Apes and asked in any number of science fiction movies is can you accentuate intelligence. Can you take an ape and make the ape intelligent. Well, believe it or not the answer could be yes. We are 98.5 percent genetically equivalent to a chimpanzee. Only a handful of genes separate us from the chimps and yet we live twice as long and we have thousands of words in our vocabulary. Chimps can have maybe just a few hundred. And we've isolated many of those genes that separate us from the chimpanzees. For example the ASP gene governs the size of the crane, cranial capacity so that by monkeying with just one gene you can literally double the size of the brain case and the brain itself. And so in the future -- not today but in the future we may use gene therapy to begin the process of making perhaps a chimpanzee intelligent. We know the genes that'll increase the size of the brain. We've isolated now the genes that give you manual dexterity by which you can make tools. We have found the genes which give you the ability to articulate thousands of words. And so it may be possible to tinker with the genome of a chimpanzee so that they have a larger brain case, they have better manual dexterity and they have the ability to articulate a larger vocabulary. But then what do you get? You get a primate that looks very similar to a human. And so my personal attitude is why bother. We already have humans, just look outside the door. So why bother to manipulate a chimpanzee because as you make a chimpanzee more and more intelligent it becomes more and more humanlike with a vocabulary, with vocal chords, with manual dexterity, with a larger brain case and a spine to support a larger brain case. That's called a human. Directed/Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Dillon Fitton- published: 25 Mar 2014
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Michio Kaku: Is God a Mathematician?
Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: "The mind of God we believe is cosmic ...
published: 02 Jan 2013
author: Big Think
Michio Kaku: Is God a Mathematician?
Michio Kaku: Is God a Mathematician?
Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: "The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyper...- published: 02 Jan 2013
- views: 302092
- author: Big Think