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Do Animals Have Explanatory Knowledge?
Artifical General Intelligence

Do Animals Have Explanatory Knowledge?

Posted on April 1, 2021February 24, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…

Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence
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Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Ella Hoeppner

Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…

The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”
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The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…

Some Criticisms of the Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind
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Some Criticisms of the Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind

Posted on January 20, 2021March 4, 2021 by Ella Hoeppner

Dennis Hackethal has proposed a theory he calls “The Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind”, which is intended to be a low-level explanation of how intelligent…

Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?
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Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?

Posted on January 11, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…

Humans and Induction: Heuristics vs Explanations
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Humans and Induction: Heuristics vs Explanations

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In a past post, I made the claim that Induction was subsumed by Critical Rationalism and that all cases of induction ‘working’ are really cases…

Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence
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Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence

Posted on January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In the last episode, we showed that Artificial General Intelligence was possible according to the laws of physics. This episode is part 1 of a…

Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence
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Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence

Posted on December 31, 2020December 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

Part 3 of our series on Computational Theory. Using the theory we’ve built up, we now prove that Artificial General Intelligence is possible due to…

Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 9: Intro to Computational Theory
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Theory of Anything Podcast – Episode 9: Intro to Computational Theory

Posted on December 13, 2020December 13, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

Computational Theory is possibly the most underrated of all scientific theories. In fact, most scientists think of it as a branch of mathematics rather than…

Do Humans Have “Machine Learning Biases”?
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Do Humans Have “Machine Learning Biases”?

Posted on November 30, 2020January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

“ImageNet-Trained CNNs are Biased Towards Texture; Increasing Shape Bias Improves Accuracy and Robustness” (link) by Robert Geirhos, et al explores two proposed theories about how…

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