At what rate does the entire sum of human knowledge double?
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It varies and isn't really predictable like the Moore's Law.\nhttp://www.ask.com/web?q=moore's%20law
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I know that we have a world of information at our fingertips. \nI am sure it damages our math skills, but our minds are certainly broader because of the wealth of information we recieve.\n\nThe smartest among us can see farther because they stand on the shoulders of giants
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One thing I do know is that even the most intellent being will never run out of things to learn.  \nThe more intelligent a person the more they can access information and find specific information.  A person of not such an intelligent dispostion can still learn through YA :D
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I thought the height of knowledge was ultimate knowledge.
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That applies to me in nearly every area not dominated by cold hard fact. Religion, creativity, poetry, love...\n\nThe more you learn, I've found, the more you realize is still out there left to learn, and wht you do know just gets proportionately smaller.
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Yes.  The more you use a neuron network the stronger it becomes.  The increase is minuscule, but certainly large enough to measure.  Good luck in your quest for more knowledge. Ciao!\n-C
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Knowledge, in and of itself!!!!
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40 % proof is always twice the actual content
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Yes it is but the concept is -\n\nthat the more you know and the more you learn ,the more you realise how litttle you know.\nAnd at the end of the day ,the very wise man who has learned all his life ,and who knows just about everything,realises that in the great scheme of things ,he still knows nothing.\n\nBecause by then he really knows how much there is to know,and how far away, he still is from knowing everything
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It really depends on how you gauge intelligence. Now, if everyone thought that people were smarter, then there would be no worry of machines ever taking over the world. \n\nThe fact is, a computer can process information a lot quicker than a human can. Ultimately, we create machines that can outperform us in velocity and force, which is also true of a computer. That is the point of making them. A computer can be as smart as one programs them. We possess so many other possibilities within our brains and through our senses.  \n\nWe really only define our thought through the senses we perceive and draw unique conclusions, even expanding the bounds of reason. It is this expansion that gives way to new discoveries and understanding, hence, people on the whole are smarter. \n\nUnless we can create a computer to attain consciousness, but even then, we will have to be cognitive masters before we can do that. People are smarter than computers, because although a computer may process information faster and recall memory quicker, we are the ones that have the ability to expand the parameters of reason and logic. Machines are faster and stronger than we, but not smarter. We utilize speed and function in a machine to accomplish tasks, and a computer may only appear smarter due it's processing speed.
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No one has use their brain to it maximum extent.Einstein, Newton and other Greats used 5 to 6%, which has been a proved fact.\n\nTheir brilliancy is rated based upon their expertise in a particular field and contribution to society by Nobel Prize Awards. Here are some:Peace ,Literature,Science,Medicine,etc...
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Its not how much you have to use.  Its how you use what you have.  Einstein is someone who used what he had, but that does not mean that he had all that much more then the rest of us.  His IQ was not extaordinary ( around 150 if I remember right), but the things he did with his brain were.
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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It is well-established that the human brain has the capacity to take in an infinite amount of knowledge and information, far more than our 80 years of life allows.  It is also well-established that the human body is constantly repairing, renewing and replacing itself, and should go on doing so.  The human body, by design, should live forever and should be forever young. The  medical field cannot understand why it is not so. These two facts alone demonstrate that this life, logically, is not all there is.
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Certainly!\n\nHuman memory really isn't all that great,in terms of data bytes. \n\nFor a discussion of this, see:\n\nwww.merkle.com/humanMemory.html \n\nThough clearly it varies widely from person to person, but estimates found in the literature place it between 100 to 1000 Gigabytes. Hard drives capable of that amount of storage are available now and aren't very expensive.\n\nIt's not the amount of memory that makes humans unique from machines, it's their ability to learn, reason and process data, usually called "intelligence".  \n\nNow, if you ask, can we create a machine with "intelligence" like humans? That's more difficult, but I believe that within the next ten or twenty years machines will come along that have a very low IQ. \n\nA scientist who first explored this possibility from a theoretical standpoint was an Englishman named Alan Turing. He conceived what became known as the "Turing Machine" and attempted to describe how it would work.  As a result, he helped create the first computers back in the 1930's and '40's. You might want to read some of his papers.\n\nGood question!
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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The rule of 70 states that to find the doubling time for any exponential growth, divide 70 by the percent of annual increase. So, if the population grows 10% per year, it will double in 7 years.