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http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/visual-effects-industry-bill-of-rights
The Situation Today The global visual effects industry is in transition. Because visual effects now play a central role in today’s feature films, television programming, animation, video games, commercials and virtually all forms of entertainment, they have become critically important to the entertainment industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-roth/the-real-wizards-of-oz-de_b_1166422.html
Visual effects are the true “movie stars” of big studio pictures — they turn today’s movies into box office hits the same way big name actors ensured the success of classic films. In fact, 46 of the 50 top worldwide Box Office films of all time were visual effects-driven. And movies and broadcast programs you wouldn’t think of as visual effects driven routinely utilize “invisible” effects to make changes to hair color, the sky, or to the background of a scene — even creating the entire backlot and sets.
http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597314928257169.html
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.
— J.B.S. Haldane
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Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life’s mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.
Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavour.
This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach. We are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.
He applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Fo_k7RC8g
Any description of the universe is a description of the instrument you used to analyze the universe. Instruments including our brain.
http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/waking_essay.htm
https://www.pixelsham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/waking_essay.htm
There are two kinds of suffers in this world; those who suffer from lack of life and those who suffer from an over abundance of life.
