Karl Popper has a radical theory of ‘dualistic evolution’ where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken advantage of. As…
Category: Computation
How intelligent are animals? In this episode, we introduce our series on animal intelligence rooted primarily in the research of Richard Byrne. Richard Byrne (mentioned…
I previously posted about Deutsch’s argument to Eli Tyre about why induction can’t be the basis for conjecture. And I agreed with that argument. But,…
Popper wrote about the need to discover regularities: It was first in animals and children, but later also in adults, that I observered the immensely…
Deutsch gives a great concise answer to the question of why conjectures are not rooted in induction. (See video here.) The Setup: Eli Tyre starts…
In this episode, we review Alpha Go: The Movie. This is an amazing documentary worth watching before we spoil it for you in this review.…
In a past post, I talked about Chiara Marletto’s “deterministic nightmare.” Interestingly, David Deutsch, in this interview, addresses the same question. He uses the example…
Popper unintentionally took a stance on one of the requirements for being a universal explainer (or General Intelligence). Specifically, he argued that language was a…
This post is a short response to Christofer Lovegren’s podcast episode 28.1: Meaning and Meta-Rationality. Had Christofer invoked Popper’s 3 worlds, he could have discovered…
Karl Popper once said: I do believe in freedom and reason, but I do not think that one can construct a simple, practical and fruitful…