Boris,
Funny, I thought you were avoiding any coherent analysis. I read you website where you talk about hierarchies, but you never told me what they are or how you are planning to create them or where they come from. I do approve of the hierarchies and of the way you think about them, but that's not enough. I don't recall you considering the known laws of nature, more in particular the entropy or the connections between entropy and hierarchies. If somebody asks a question from you, sometimes you just refer them to your website. In your cognitive blog, the words "entropy", "self-organization", "causality", do not even appear. And you are accusing me of avoiding coherent analysis? Where is yours? Regarding Adam, he told me he is a neuroscientist, and I believed him. What are you suggesting? Should I ask for a notarized copy of his diploma? He made an immediate contribution to my work by introducing me to Friston's work, which isalready more I can say about you. And I am not jumping on any buzzwords, I only started reading Friston and I am going to make my own judgement about its value. I don't need yours, thank you very much. Again, can we please work in a more objective way on this blog? Like leaving our personalities at home and concentrate on facts? Sergio From: Boris Kazachenko [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:37 AM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Uncertainty, causality, entropy, self-organization, and Schroedinger's cat. Adam, >My point is that there are many brilliant scientists from whom we can learn >about different aspects of the problem of how the brain produces mental >phenomena (e.g. Friston, Hawkins, Barsalou, Fuster, Edelman, Tononi, Damasio, >etc., etc.). How much time have you spent studying neuroscience? I suspect not >much, since I haven't heard you make any substantive comments on the topic. FWIW, I don't comment on neuroscience either. That's not because I don't know much, it's actually a hobby of mine, & I do have plenty of opinions (http://cognitive-focus.blogspot.com/). But I feel that the brain, & especially our current knowledge of it, is so "dirty" that discussing it is a distraction for this list. And you don't say anything substantive either, mostly just name dropping. Sergio doesn't have a clue about neuroscience, but he will jump on any buzzword you drop, as long as its fuzzy enough to avoid any coherent analysis. As you will learn shortly :). AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18407320-d9907b69> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18883996-f0d58d57> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
