Deepest Turtle

  • A Pragmatic and Responsible Approach for Explaining Consciousness

    1/ I find the efforts to explain Consciousness using AI to be very worthwhile. This is one of the oldest, most meaningful questions ever asked by man, and it is inevitable that we will never stop trying to answer it using the best knowledge available at that time. But there… Read ⇢

    A Pragmatic and Responsible Approach for Explaining Consciousness

  • Clearing Common Misconceptions about Reality and Virtual Reality

    There are a lot of misconceptions about “reality” (and “virtual” reality). What we think of as “reality” is not how it really is. In fact, we have no way of directly experiencing reality. Our brains sit inside a dark enclosure without any direct access to the outside world. It is our sense organs… Read ⇢

    Clearing Common Misconceptions about Reality and Virtual Reality

  • Intentionally Misspelled Words >> Correctly Spelled Words

    1/ Since when did misspelled words become more powerful than properly spelled ones? Whatever happened to all the hours and days and months I spent learning the correct spellings of words, only to realize after I had mastered the art of spelling that misspelled words now carry more word power… Read ⇢

  • The Suez Canal Digger, Trimtabs, Levers, and Fulcrums

    1/ This fantastic image of the Suez Canal digger reminded me of the concept of #trimtab defined by Buckminster Fuller. 2/ A trimtab is basically a tiny rudder for the actual rudder of a ship or plane. Turn the trimtab a little, it turns the rudder, which in turn turns… Read ⇢

  • The Path to Ruin is NOT Paved with Good Intentions

    1/ The path to ruin is NOT paved with good intentions. It is paved with bad execution. 2/ The meme about the path to ruin being paved with good intentions is one of the most insidious memes out there. Because it prevents people from acting on their good intentions. Worse,… Read ⇢

  • A Quick Introduction to Computational Philosophy

    A Quick Introduction to Computational Philosophy In August 2011 Marc Andreessen published the essay titled “Why Software Is Eating The World” in The Wall Street Journal. Since then, this phrase has become fairly commonplace and we have seen ample evidence of this phenomenon of software slowly (or even quickly) taking… Read ⇢

    A Quick Introduction to Computational Philosophy

  • The Wolfram Physics Project – A Quick Introduction

    The Wolfram Physics Project – A Quick Introduction Stephen Wolfram has started a new project to explore foundational ideas in Physics using computational methods. I think it it a fascinating and promising approach to problems in Physics that have remained unsolved for a while now. I did a deep dive… Read ⇢

  • A Promising Computational Model of Human Intelligence and Consciousness

    A Promising Computational Model of Human Intelligence and Consciousness I recently came across some incredibly insightful talks by Joscha Bach (VP of Research, AI Foundation) on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and consciousness (linked below). In these talks he has outlined a very promising direction for explaining these concepts, in a… Read ⇢

    A Promising Computational Model of Human Intelligence and Consciousness

  • The Enlightenment Pill Cycle

    The Enlightenment Pill Cycle Unless you have been living under a rock for a while, you have probably heard of the Blue Pill and the Red Pill. These concepts were popularized by the Matrix movies. In the first Matrix movie, where Morpheus, the mysterious man who has figured out the… Read ⇢

    The Enlightenment Pill Cycle