The Theory of Nothing E-Book

Russell Standish is a frequent contributor to the Everything List, and recently put together a book that covered many of the most popular topics of discussion on the Everything List.

This book is an excellent overview of cutting edge ideas and theories pertaining to theories of everything (or nothing).

The Theory of Nothing

What is reality

Good site covering the "big questions" concerning the nature of reality.

What is reality?

Quantum physics, in an easy to understand summary

Series of posts from overcomingbias.com

Shut up and calculate

Tegmark advocates "an extreme 'shut-up-and-calculate' approach to physics, where our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical."

School for futurists

Singularity University

Ray Kurzweil: Reinventing Humanity

The Author of The Singularity is Near provides an article published in the March-April 2006 edition of Futurist Magazine that summarizes the predictions from his book regarding the near term future of human and technological evolution.

Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?

Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?

Can there really be a theory of everything?

Why there can't be a theory of everything

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA winning television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four television documentary in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks to physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett— about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics."

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Update: Computers fail Turing Test

Still a long way to go on the AI front...

Computers at a loss for words.