Hi, I was just trying to work out if there was any relationship between OpenCog & OpenMind and came upon this thread.
I was pretty good friends with Push since he was an undergraduate and I was a PhD student the first year of the Cog project (1993). However, I hadn't talked to him for about a year before he died (I was living in another country and we were all just busy), but a lot of our mutual friends got in touch. Push was under a lot of pressures including being junior faculty at MIT and a highly valued relationship having gone long-distance / bicoastal. From what I understand, the most significant pressure though was a recent, permanent back injury that forced him to choose between pain or drugs, and the drugs he felt made him not smart enough. If anyone coming on this thread is ever undergoing this kind of stress, please do remember that humanity's knowledge keeps improving, including medicine, and that there are people out there who love you. Joanna On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:30:49 UTC+2 Ben Goertzel wrote: > >> * P.S.: BTW, Push Singh shouldn't have taken such a rash step in 2006. > >> Were any of you guys in touch with him? > > I knew Push a bit, though we were not close friends.... He gave a talk at > Webmind Inc., and we corresponding a little thereafter... > > He was a good person and a creative researcher, though I argued with him > that > learning should play a much more central role in his work... > > As for his tragic suicide, he was prone to occasional depression, and > there were > issues in his romantic life ... lots of human stuff going on with him > as with all > of us.... I don't feel it was especially tied to his AI research or > associated > frustrations, as some have alluded.... But the truth is hard for us to > know at > this point.... > > If Tipler is right we will all find out as the Omega Point is neared, > however ;p > > -- Ben > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/be628ada-0681-47a4-89fb-b9dd8c161eden%40googlegroups.com.
