In this episode, we interview Chiara Marletto about her recent book The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals…
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…
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…
I’ve seen people criticize my word nominalist ‘definition of coercion’ and suggest the TCS ‘definition of coercion as the correct one. The TCS definition of…
In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…
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…
New episode! The popular media confuses Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence. All the progress is in the first while all the interest is in…
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…
This is a historical post. This is the last of my older series on climate change. I feel I was starting to head in the…