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…
Category: Artifical General Intelligence
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…
Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…
In Chiara Marletto’s book, The Science of Can and Can’t, she discusses what she calls the “deterministic nightmare” where all your choices are predictable due…
In a past post, I criticized the view that determinism was predictable. Most deterministic algorithms have to be run to find out what the result…
Dennis Hackethal has a post called “Two Guesses About Creativity” which started out with the following lines: The problem, in a nutshell, is this: creativity…
In a past post, I argued that our best current theory on animal qualia was that animals did feel qualia. In a later post, I…
Temple Grandin, in her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, argues that her autism is a condition that…