EdEarl

As time moves on, robots will assure safety and minimize work needed for survival, at least for the wealthy. Eventually, robots will be capable of reproducing themselves using factories and natural resources, and in time some robots will be capable of reproducing themselves without the need for a factory; although, reproducing robots may need to make foundries and machine tools to help with reproduction. The manner of reproduction is less important than the consequences. Eventually a wealthy naturalist will give instructions to a reproducing robot to care for all of nature. Similarly, a wealthy humanist will give instructions to a reproducing robot to care for everyone. Afterward, the earth will care for nature including humanity.

And, when you look closely, nature has put things together in beautiful, often surprising, ways.

You may be right; I hope is is not violent.

It is possible that robots may one day be capable of providing human necessities of food, clothing, shelter and health care. However, that assumes that people who own land for growing food, for reaping resources for clothing and shelter, and owners of patents for medicine and robots will allow the resources to be used for the public good. It is possible robots will be used to police resources and prevent people from having necessities.

Power from the wall is AC (alternating current), but batteries are DC (direct current). Microchips always run on DC; thus, a power supply converts from wall current AC into DC for boards, PCs, TVs, etc.

A 220/240v appliance will not run properly on 110/120v.

16 AWG for 3 amps Those converters look like they are for 120V.

Yes wire size matters. You should be able to get the plug you need at a hardware store or Home Depot. You may need to order the German socket over the internet. http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm

If you wire them incorrectly you will get a short circuit. If the motor is not rated for 60 Hz, it may burn up. Otherwise, it might work, but you have to connect to two circuits that measure 220-240V from hot to hot wire. It is not recommended, and may invalidate your insurance if you cause a fire. I recommend you make an extension to plug into your dryer socket with a socket for your blender, because it is safer, you are guaranteed to get 220-240V, and it might not invalidate your insurance.

AFAIK drugs do not do what the CIA wanted to do and never will. They want mind control of a person who is otherwise normal, and drugs tend to affect emotions and make them irrational. If anything, I expect the CIA to be backing experiments into electrical stimulation or monitoring of neurons through implants, instead of experimenting with drugs. But, I doubt that line of research will give them what they want, either.

You can use a bit vector and Boolean operators as set operators in many computer languages.

Why? I have no idea what a pseudo 120v+120v socket is. If you measure the voltage on a 220/240 V socket, you get 240V. It is true, that a 240 may be divided into two 120V circuits, because ground/neutral is between the two 120V circuits. I don't know if there is a converter.

The government is better described as a bumbling bureaucracy than a super organization. When it does something well, e.g., military power, it does so by spending outrageous amounts of money to convince industry to do its bidding. Many projects fail and some succeed; the government chooses from the successes, but not always the best. If the government has spent vast sums on drug development, I suspect there would be a money trail to follow. Although, they can hide such research as black ops for a while, eventually those things surface, for example the LSD experiments by the CIA.

Yes, the US is primarily 120 powered. One difference is frequency, the US uses 60Hz; some other countries use 50Hz. Frequency affects motors primarily. Some motors will run faster on 60 Hz (and use more power) than on 50 Hz.

You would need a blender for 120 V that pulls nearly 6A to be near 650w, which is the power. 650w/120V is about 5.4A We also have 220/240 V circuits for high current devices, such as electric clothes dryers.

A carbon bicable would be a bicable made with a carbon based rope, perhaps using carbon nanotubes.

There is no evidence, AFAIK, that either RNA or DNA is used by the brain to encode either short term or long term memories of things we experience day to day. In fact, experiments done on flat works suggests RNA/DNA is not used to store experience memories.

Instincts may not be called knowledge, but the distinction may be subtle. When we learn to recognize a person or thing, exciting a specific neuron electrically during surgery causes us to remember the person or thing.

It is not how I think about the two.

You seem to be changing your question.

What exactly do you mean by personality?

Personality is not a single element of data, it is distributed throughout many parts of the brain. The way you ask, "Where is our personality stored in the brain," is similar to my asking you, "Where is the weight of a person stored in their body."

Welcome to SFN, C. B.

First, we help with homework, but not do it for you. Thus, you should have posted an attempted solution already. Second, you do not specify what the assembly language instructions are, every machine is different. Thus, you have not given enough information to do problem 2. I don't know if you have given enough information to solve 1; I would prefer to read the machine manual and look at any timing sequences before attempting a solution. Is this machine hypothetical or real; if real, which one. Do you have a link to the manual?

Having worked on NonStop computer systems for over ten years, I can attest that non of the software systems I worked on were limited by the hierarchical processor interconnect therein used. On the other hand, some problem sets will be limited by it. There is concern among chip manufacturers that power dissipation will limit the number of cores in microprocessor chips, which is one reason optical interconnects are being investigated. Thus, I think dismissing them as being inferior is not necessarily true; often one must live with engineering trade-offs.