http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/cafe-scientifique/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/cafe-scientifique/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive » Friday Plant Blogging! As my fig gently weeps… Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:42:27 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/blog/2006/05/24/cafe-scientifique/#comment-400 [...] Plus next week (Tuesday 18th) sees the latest Cafe Scientifique in the city taking place, and as always I shall be there to blog the whole thing, or as well as I can. This one is all about maths though, so I won’t be quite so in my element as I have been before. No doubt it will still be a fascinating evening - watch this space. Previous reports can be read here and here. Which reminds me; I’m still midway through an exchange of emails with Prof. Aleksander (who presented the previous Cafe), which should resolve into an interview to be published here in the next few weeks. Conscious machines…real mind-bending stuff. [...] [...] Plus next week (Tuesday 18th) sees the latest Cafe Scientifique in the city taking place, and as always I shall be there to blog the whole thing, or as well as I can. This one is all about maths though, so I won’t be quite so in my element as I have been before. No doubt it will still be a fascinating evening – watch this space. Previous reports can be read here and here. Which reminds me; I’m still midway through an exchange of emails with Prof. Aleksander (who presented the previous Cafe), which should resolve into an interview to be published here in the next few weeks. Conscious machines…real mind-bending stuff. [...]

]]> http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/cafe-scientifique/comment-page-1/#comment-306 Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive » Cafe Scientifique: Who’s afraid of conscious machines? Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:35:07 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/blog/2006/05/24/cafe-scientifique/#comment-306 [...] I can say with certainty that there were at least forty or so people in the UK last night who weren’t obsessing over the fate of twentytwo overpaid men in shorts and one air-filled leather sack. We had far more interesting things to think about. So, my second visit to a Portsmouth Cafe Scientifique, and I enjoyed it even more than the first one! (No offense, Dr. Nichol, should you be reading this; you were interesting too, but this was right up my alley, so to speak.) [...] [...] I can say with certainty that there were at least forty or so people in the UK last night who weren’t obsessing over the fate of twentytwo overpaid men in shorts and one air-filled leather sack. We had far more interesting things to think about. So, my second visit to a Portsmouth Cafe Scientifique, and I enjoyed it even more than the first one! (No offense, Dr. Nichol, should you be reading this; you were interesting too, but this was right up my alley, so to speak.) [...]

]]> http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/cafe-scientifique/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive » Oh, the shame! The shame! Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:26:23 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/blog/2006/05/24/cafe-scientifique/#comment-217 [...] Tuesday sees me not just going to my bi-weekly poetry workshop (yeah, I know; so sue me), but also going to my second Cafe Scientifique, which I shall of course be reporting on just like I did last time. This month it’s all about ‘concious machines’, and whether or not we should be afraid of them; hence plenty of opportunities for yours truly to bring up science fiction scenarios again. [...] [...] Tuesday sees me not just going to my bi-weekly poetry workshop (yeah, I know; so sue me), but also going to my second Cafe Scientifique, which I shall of course be reporting on just like I did last time. This month it’s all about ‘concious machines’, and whether or not we should be afraid of them; hence plenty of opportunities for yours truly to bring up science fiction scenarios again. [...]

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