Nick,
I hesitate to respond to your post because:
1) my interest in the weather is nominal, although I am bemused that here in
St. Paul MN, we had more 50+ degrees in the December-February time frame than
below 0 days (almost three times as many). Most unusual.
2) the response I wish to make
Published a paper couple of years back — IT is not Sustainable. One point was
power consumption: known server-farms at that time used more energy per year
than the UK. Less than 10% came from renewable sources.
Not included were all the “secret” farms in Russia, China, etc., or centers
like
this is 'unique' only if you exclude Vedic, Buddhist, Taoist, ... thought.
davew
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 9:54 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Prompt:
> Express a unique concept. Make it as profound as possible
>
> https://chat.openai.com/share/649bd4ca-f856-451e-83a2-01fc2cfe47fb
>
>
>
> On
The notion of search brings to mind two different experiences:
1- traditional "searching" of the library via the card catalog (yes, I know I
am old) for relevant inputs; and,
2- the "serendipity of the stacks"—simply looking around me at the books I
located via search type 1 to see what was in
Science fiction: *The Traveler*, by John Twelve Hawks is set in a dystopian
(near future) 'Big Brother' world of absolute and constant surveillance. The
hero, a "Traveler" uses a random number generator to make every action choice,
else be eliminated by the evil forces controlling the world.
Ancient Greek notions of "creativity" lacked any sense of egocentric novelty.
To 'create' was to 'remember'. This was grounded in the more general philosophy
that denied the possibility of "something-from-nothing."
In my Design Thinking book, there is a large section about this and about who
I am about to get myself in trouble, so important caveats: I do not like Trump,
I do not want to see him in office again, and I am happy to apply the
adjectives, venal, crude, infantile, hyperbolic, and cunning-but-stupid to him.
1-all of the indictments assert that the words and actions of
I am going to the Oshkosh Air Show next week. Mathew would be jealous.
davew
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, at 7:08 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> We're taking grandson Matthew to Colorado Springs to see the WW2 Aircraft
> Museum. We leave tomorrow and return Friday. That means I won't be in Santa
> Fe
teleonomic matter (particles that think) - totally consistent with Vedic /
Buddhist cosmology. Even elementary particles are subject to the Law of Karma
if they "misbehave"—something very unlikely, but not impossible.
davew
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, at 10:27 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
>
> On
Where angels fear to tread, dave rushes in.
Question 1) seems, to me, to be nonsensical; or hopelessly anthropocentric; or,
unanswerable in any generalized or abstract form.
Paraphrasing question 2) — what set of observables (behaviors) must be present
before We/I can assert, "*t***hat *thing
If you have not read it — I highly recommend The Tree of Knowledge by Humberto
Maturana and Francisco Varela. Self organization from simple to complex via a
single mechanism.
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023, at 7:30 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> I have had a version of this problem for several years,
I have no problem with "make use of" as trees are sentient. Also, "Trees need
wind to blow against them because it causes their root systems to grow deeper,
which supports the tree as it grows taller." And, what glen wrote.
davew
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, at 11:29 AM, glen wrote:
> "make use of"
What James is talking about / alluding to:
A - Hallucinogens (which he did experience) where the "preconceived notions
of theories" are disrupted, and one gropes to make sense of what is
apprehended. But, this is only a partial example as multiple perceptual
filters, "oh wow the colors, the
I have just started reading **The Earth Transformed** by Peter Frankorian. It
seems to have some relevance to this discussion as one of its themese is how
multiple climate change events in the past shaped human adaptation and
evolution. Might provide some interesting ground for what kind of
? The idea of a gaggle of toddlers running around hunting and
>>> cooking, say, boar for supper is astounding. Even Children of the Corn were
>>> older than 2. 8^D
>>>
>>>> On 5/31/23 06:19, Prof David West wrote:
>>>> "the extended juvenile dev
"the extended juvenile development of humans," is an artifact of modern
industrial society. For "de-domesticated humans" development to, mostly,
independent existence was only marginally longer than that of other large
mammals. Roughly two years for humans, 18 months for elephants and bears and
I would echo both your amusement and non-positivity.
When it comes to AI ethics, I doubt that much improvement over Asimov's Three
Laws of Robotics (and the Zero-th Law invented by the Robots themselves) is
possible or necessary.
davew
On Mon, May 22, 2023, at 10:21 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
My sympathies would be with your friend—until such time as a**_ "clone exactly
like her ... behavior, words, or even existence..." _**was demonstrated.
"Exactly" is a big word! and I would add "completely."
Even on a single dimension, say use of language, the standard of exact and
complete is
Once upon a time, I was a card carrying (metaphorically) bomb making
(literally), persecuted (FBI and CIA in Japan) revolutionary.
I was also an acid head, free love, hippy.
The "card carrying" part denotes my membership in / participation in a
"movement." The Paxton quote you shared —
the
The opinion of an "advanced layman."
I claim the status because my Computer Science MS was in AI. My first
professional publication was in *AI Magazine*, then the journal of record for
the discipline. I have appeared on panels with Herbert Simon, Marvin Minsky,
and Herbert Dreyfus at AI
t; Yes, if a large language model is trained on all works of Mozart and
>> contemporary artists like Haydn, it should be able to create a new piece of
>> music which sounds almost like Mozart. Finally we can listen to Mozart's
>> lost 28th piano concerto or Beethoven's missi
Based on the flood of stories about ChatAI, it appears:
- they can 'do' math and 'reason' scientificdally
- they can generate essays, term papers, etc.
- they can engage in convincing dialog/conversations
- as "therapists"
- as "girlfriends" (I haven't seen any stories about women
Steve Smith's use of the phrase "arms race" reminded me of John Brunner's
*Shockwave Rider *and its underlying premise of the dangers of constant change,
'first the legs race, then the arms race, then the brain race'. (Brunner was
inspired by Tofler's book, *Future Shock*.)
The book also poses
The "AI Pause" made national TV news yesterday (long after those on this list
noted and reacted to it) and that made me revisit a theme I have thought about
since Newell, Simon, and Shaw created Logic Theorist.
Advocates take a caricature (perhaps too strong a word) of human intelligence,
I am keynoting the International Conference on Code Quality on April 22. It
will be speculative and philosophical, but I would like to know "code quality"
might mean, is taken for granted to mean, to professional coders. I know what
it means for this conference, but would like a broader base
Just pre-ordered Hertog's, *On the Origin of Time*, that presents Stephen
Hawking's "final" theory - summarized in the phrase: *"The laws of physics are
not set in stone but are born and co-evolve as the universe they govern takes
shape." *Should be a great read.
davew
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Perhaps
Perhaps of interest to the psychologists and ethologists in the group: claim
that research is biased (and therefore unreliable to a degree) because the
people studied are WEIRD
- Western
- Educated
-Industrialized
- Rich
- (from) Democratic societies
and animals studied are
Wonderful!!! Thanks. Can't wait for my issue of the magazine to arrive.
davew
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, at 6:54 AM, glen wrote:
> This Is a Philosopher on Drugs
> https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-a-philosopher-on-drugs/
>
> --
> ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ
>
> -. --- - / ...- .-
I am sure that none of the respectable members of this list will have
encountered this, but Jochen's comment:
*"it is additionally trained extensively how to respond ***_correctly_*** by
humans" *(emphasis mine of course)
means I cannot resist sharing.
I just read an amusing ChatGPT
The biggest not-accounted-for cost is human. All those kids in lithium mines
earning 12 cents a day.
davew
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, at 3:41 AM, Santafe wrote:
> There is a skewness in the various analyses of these things (in the
> sense of two lines of non-common direction embedded in enough
>
I am hearing echoes of Rubert Sheldrake in your last sentence
davew
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, at 8:46 AM, glen wrote:
> Despite the ambiguity both Nick and DaveW rely on when they use the
> word "dualism", the "psyche" in panpsychism need not be dualist.
> Experience monism is a kind of
niche as any
> particular one of Shakespeare’s plays. But to put the question that
> way is the only way I know to use language.
>
> Eric
>
>> On Feb 18, 2023, at 9:22 AM, Prof David West wrote:
>>
>> Panpsychism is fundamentally dualist. There is 'Mind" and ther
Panpsychism is fundamentally dualist. There is 'Mind" and there is 'Matter'.
However, neither is found in isolation, Mind is always embedded in Matter and
all Matter possesses Mind. This is a proportionate relation: very tiny bits of
Matter (string, particle) embed very minute "auras" of
Yes, I have experienced the "mental life" of the dirt at my feet (or rough
equivalent). It is rather boring, given that the amount/degree of "psych"
possessed by your average soil molecule is diminutive in the extreme. But
the"psych" is there and it can be "sensed/perceived."
At somewhat
I will be traveling to Wisconsin tomorrow and miss Thuram.
2-cents: a word cloud might be a more useful metaphor than a semantic net, just
because of the formalisms employed in the latter. True a cloud lacks explicit
links, but such might be lightly sprinkled therein.
Did a huge double take at
I am curious, but not enough to do some hard research to confirm or deny, but
...
Surface appearances suggest, to me, that the large language model AIs seem to
focus on syntax and statistical word usage derived from those large datasets.
I do not see any evidence in same of semantics (probably
The eloquence and perspicacity of Professor Thompson has convinced me to become
an *Experience* monist. In my naive sophomoric enthusiasm I have set about
writing THE definitive work on *Experience*. But I have a few questions ...
1) Is an *Experience* a whole or a composite? I.e., (scent of
n, say, a random event where the
> humans/artifacts are rationalized later as having been triggered and
> been the trigger?
>
>
> On 1/28/23 15:10, Prof David West wrote:
>> This is a serious question albeit one in a realm that many would dismiss as
>> non-serious
This is a serious question albeit one in a realm that many would dismiss as
non-serious. First, some background.
Rinzai Zen is the "sudden enlightenment" school that asserts the possibility of
a single event serving as a 'trigger' that evokes/instills-in-the-mind a state
of enlightenment. The
Thank you very much, Needs revision and updating, but I am glad to have it back.
davew
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, at 3:25 PM, glen wrote:
> http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Truth-Hunh-What-is-it-good-for-Absolutely-Nothing-tp7590706.html
>
> On 1/20/23 14:12, Prof David West wrote:
>
Nick wrote: (emphasis mine)
*"Even though I might have to admit that the truth will never be found, *I
still find that the truth is an aspiration that I cannot live without.* So I
think that probably the underlying in Peirce as I see him is that human
experience is the result of cognition,
Pardon my ignorance of something I should know how to do, but have not had
reason to do it, and hence my ongoing ignorance.
I made a post a long time ago with a title close to, "truth, what is it good
for? absolutely nothing"
Might someone brighter than me, find it in the archives so I can cut
That's why logic(s) that tolerate inconsistency are so cool
> (to me).
>
> On 1/19/23 07:52, Prof David West wrote:
>> My optimism is tempered, and less than Pieters.
>>
>> /"When we contemplate the shocking derangement of human affairs which now
>> prevai
My optimism is tempered, and less than Pieters.
*"When we contemplate the shocking derangement of human affairs which now
prevails in most civilized countries, including our own, even the best minds
are puzzled and uncertain in their attempts to grasp the situation.The world
seems to demand a
Apropos of nothing:
The human heart has roughly 40,000 neurons and the human gut around 0.1 billion
neurons (sensory neurons, neurotransmitters, ganglia, and motor neurons).
So the human gut is about 1/5 as smart as Marcus's dog??
davew
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023, at 1:08 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I do not know and have not read Feferman, so this may be totally off base, but
...
glen stated:
*Worded one way: Schema are the stable patterns that emerge from the
particulars. And the variation of the particulars is circumscribed (bounded,
defined) by the schema.
*
This is a description of
one and fragile containers?
> Posthumanism has always been the driver for me.
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:27 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social
>
Merle,
>From the book I am currently finishing:
Manifesto
Every aspect of human life — how we work, play, live, and love; how we define
our relationships with each other and with our environment — have been, and
continue to be, shaped by computers and the software that drives them.
Those
Instead of a cable - maybe Tesla’s unrealized broadcast technology? I don’t
remember the details but he was going to send power from Long Island, via the
ionosphere, to light the world expo in Paris.
Davew
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, at 2:16 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Following the conception of a
Not Sheep, but human societies, have done similar things in our collective past.
David Graeber's book, the Origin of Everything, details the multiplicity of
organizational and governmental forms and poses the question of how did we get
stuck in the one we have now.
davew
On Mon, Nov 21,
Marcus and glen (and others on occasion) have posted frequently on the
"algorithmic "equivalent" of [some feature] of consciousness, human emotion,
etc.
I am always confronted with the question of of "how equivalent?" I am almost
certain that they are not saying anything close to absolute
is not a necessary element of consciousness, but I think a being
> without emotion would be at best a pale version of consciousness.
>
> __-- Russ Abbott
> Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
> California State University, Los Angeles
>
>
&
I an concurrently reading, *Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness*, by
Patrick House and *Mountain in the Sea*, by Ray Nayler. The latter is fiction.
(The former, because it deals with consciousness may also be fiction, but it
purports to be neuro-scientific / philosophical.)
The novel is
Colloquially, "in your head" signifies that construct—the self, the
consciousness— that you do not accept as a real thing.
If one were to be charitable, one might interpret the sentence as "it is not
psychosomatic." Reason being pain results in signals in both the body and the
brain, so it is
A six pack of Sing Ha (18% alcohol) helped me get through my dish of quartered
river frogs with ghost peppers last time I was in Thailand.
davew
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, at 3:28 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Oh neet. I didn't know their's more than one kind of capsaicin. I wonder if
> part of
technique.
>
>
> On October 12, 2022 2:38:28 PM PDT, Prof David West
> wrote:
>> interesting article
>>
>> davew
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ilosopical questions.
included diagram, but forgot text in previous email.
davew
On Mon, Oct 3, 2022, at 4:01 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> In my personal opinion, I am closer to your conviction than the
> academic/objective perspective I presented; at least to the extent of
> being ab
> Hopefully, I could be forgiven for thinking geometry plays a huge role
> in at least this take on NO. But I'm starting to see why one might
> think it's applicable without metrics. I can't steelman it, yet,
> though. 8^D
>
> On 10/1/22 15:19, Prof David West wrote:
>> RE:
I have been thinking a lot about the *"public movement to disintegrate
society."* It feels like we are in the throes of a country-wide schismogenesis
- the process of defining ourselves as what our neighbors are not. We expect
differences in culture in different environments/contexts, but
RE: Alexander and Geometry
First, my notion of 'geometry' may be too simplistic and too Euclidean. If so,
please point out what I may be overlooking.
I did a quick review of Alexander's major works and found few mentions of
'geometry' as I understand the term. One of the major ones was in
continuing in the original thread ...
Wolpert question 5: my previous arguing that knowledge and information—but of a
different order/kind—and "TRUTH" can be found on an LSD trip seems like a
negative answer to Wolpert's Fifth. Yes, we do have access to and can learn to
use 'alternate states
g* from one to
>> the other is essentially metaphorical, though the metaphorical source
>> domains (e.g. religious, political, sociological... ) are often layered and
>> rich in their structure, but definitely more "topological" than "geometric"?
>>
&
, *where* or *how* has it gone wrong
> in extrapolation? Did Alexander go wrong in his extrapolation? Or did
> others [mis]interpret?
>
> (I've purposefully left the Subject the same because it definitely
> relates to Chan's morphology based taxonomy and my argument with my
> m
I am a patterns and Alexander expert. glen's uncertainty / mild antipathy is
spot on. Software patterns are an oxymoron.
Strong words, but happy to back them up with dozens of papers written/presented
and hours of discussion.
davew
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, at 6:29 AM, glen wrote:
> Very cool!
Just to be clear, I have zero antipathy towards Wolpert or his efforts at
steelmanning. I think Wolpert does an excellent job of phrasing as questions
what I perceive "Scientists" and "Computationalists" to merely assert as Truth.
I have long tilted at that particular windmill and I applaud
Regarding Wolpert's first four questions:
In my opinion, all four reflect a kind of arrogance that I have accused
Scientists and Mathematicians of many times in the past—an attitude that modern
formal and abstract math and science are a kind of ultimate achievement of our
species. Any and all
My very first PC was a Xerox 820 with a cabled IBM selectric as a printer and
(2) 8" floppy drives.
davew
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> When Mary moved here she had a collection of 3.5" floppies with her
> early poetry on them... she wasn't sure what she had and
Wolpert's questions are fantastic. Thanks glen for prompting this discussion.
Re: question one about the "chasm with minimal cognitive capabilities necessary
..."
I have two major problems with the assumptions behind this question.
First, the assumption that Godel, Einstein, and Beethoven
Just wanted to put this here as a placeholder for future conversation as I
would like to take up Wolpert's questions even though I am not "miraculous" per
glen's invitation. I do need a day to two to read and pose questions /make
observations, but others might be ready to chime in with
rs. A great example of this
> was that "junk" DNA which turned out to be, at least, structural. It
> also turned out to be a mind of memory. Junk Schmunk.
>
> N
>
> Nick Thompson
> thompnicks...@gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
&
It seems, to me, that several conversations here—AI, hallucinogens,
consciousness, participant observation, and epistemology—have a common aspect:
a body of "data" and disagreement over which subset should be attended to
(Signal) and that which is irrelevant (Noise).
Arguments for
Descartes' "joined and intermingled" view is actually very ancient. The Vedas
are the oldest known "philosophical" writings and they put forth the notion
that 'Mind' (Purusa) and 'Matter' (Pkrati) are infused from the tiniest atom to
large structures. 'Mind' is complex, matter is not, and mind
>From glen: *"If you want to share values with some arbitrary shmoe, then get
>to**
*
* *work*. Build something or cooperate on a common task. Talking,**
*
* communicating, is inadequate at best, disinfo at worst."*
This is kinda the whole point of _Participant_ Observation at the core
another, I think relevant/interesting science fiction reference: Neal
Stephenson's *Snow Crash*.
Not central to the novel, but central to scene settting for much of the action
was a concept of a metaverse—a single streeet 32,000 miles long) where the
superstructure/infrastructure was paid
e residents were referring to
>>>> Ft-Pueblo to reference the (near) continuous development of the I25
>>>> corridor from Ft. Collins to Pueblo. I flew back from Europe into Denver
>>>> and drove from my daughter's place in Parker (south-south-Denver) to
>>>&g
were I to try to steelman your
>>>>> argument, I'd suggest that, yes, the process by which our bodies
>>>>> refine/focus/hone-down our attention to a smaller, compressed thing from
>>>>> a larger thing (whether the largess is "noise" or not is a
> and expose the Real Reality. >
>
> The mind may be configured to be a 5G transceiver or CAT scan?
>
> Marcus
>
>
> *From:* Friam on behalf of Prof David West
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 16, 2022 6:16 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re:
vides. Computer-based augmentaiton would provide a hard
> limit ... an unavoidable abstraction/subset of reality.
>
> On 8/15/22 19:04, Prof David West wrote:
>> The hallucino-philia (and Buddhist epistemologists) would argue that our
>> brains (minds) already fully gra
personal anecdote:
when I was fifteen, I took a bus trip from Salt Lake City to Boston, New
Yorkand the '65 World's Fair (held two years, 64 and 65), DC, then Nauvoo and
the Mormon Trail back to SLC. The tour director noted that I bought newspapers
at every gas stop and by the third day I was
The single most used social media by teens/early adults is Youtu.be 95%.
Facebook, in that demographic, is but 32%.
davew
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, at 9:14 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Here in Ecuador, group chat is very widespread. Unfortunately (?) it is
> mostly through informal WhatsApp groups.
from glen's narrative the following quote:
"In summary, depending on how exactly one wants to define the word “simulate”,
the concerns of Bostrom, et al., properly formalized, strongly suggest that
augmenting our brains can never allow us to fully grasp / cognize / perceive
our physical
With VR your 'ordinary senses' are still functional and still sending signals
to the brain—hence "simulator sickness" when your inner ears disagree with your
eyes. Also, the fact that your brain still has access to "normal" data, it
tends to interpolate and interpret the sensory data from the
I would not consider Asimov's robots to be "flat and empty," but they are an
anomaly in that regard. They did, after all, invent the Zeroth Law of Robotics
all by themselves.
davew
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, at 2:18 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> I feel like this is yet another reminder that humans,
This summer there was a "cruiser bicycle" gathering here in Vegas. heavy
frames, fat tires, lights everywhere, and sound systems. One trike had a large
'trunk'; with a pull out gas grill and a sound system that rivaled those in
movie theaters for sheer volume. Most were pure pedal driven but
Marc-Uwe Kling, *Qualityland*, a novel. AIs, Amazon on steroids, oligarchies,
Facebook ranking, Google search profiles (and Amazon equivalents), everything
you WILL want in your future, today!!!
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David, you are absolutely correct. Seldom is absolutist rhetoric anything other
than petulant expression. It's other major use is to shout down contrary speech
and prevent the kind of specific and nuanced discussion that both you and I
would prefer.
It would be so cool to explore the
he general election. So far, it hasn't
> seemed to work.
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 10:33 AM Prof David West wrote:
>> __
>> *"The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA
>> party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a vio
*"The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA
party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent
authoritarian cult which worships a conman."*
Absurd!!
Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican this
year, so far. Do
Syncretic might be a term of interest here. Usually applied in the area of
religion, e.g., the fusion of Vudun and Catholicism, so that Legba is a black
saint in his niche in the Catholic cathedral in Havana.
My favorite example of syncretism was a nighttime pageant in Rio de Janeiro. A
hill
I advised the U of M students who created gopher. Also a smalltalk browser that
never gained any traction because it was smalltalk and embedded in an image.
davew
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, at 11:15 AM, glen wrote:
> IDK, I was fond of FTPMail and Gopher. They fit better with the BBS
> interfaces I
Nevada casinos have set record profits every month for the past year.
Clark county home prices have set new records every month for past year.
gas prices are second highest in US (we just passed Hawaii and are second only
to California)
rents have increased about 5-10% per month since last
The Metaphysical Animals book is, IMO, a pretty dry biography that removes all
the passion and the ardor of both the time period and the philosophical
arguments. The actual ideas advanced by the four women (and colleagues) are,
again IMO, very important and I find them compelling: on their face
sequent experiences are needed? 2? A google? And is reality
>> defeasible? Eg if some experience is 'real' to me, then I get some brain
>> damage and no longer get repeats, is the now unexperienced experience real?
>>
>> On May 31, 2022 6:05:40 PM PDT, Nic
At the risk of becoming a poster boy for glen's comments about cult maintenance
and othering;
It is the body and brain that are Illusion, the self Real.
The mirage, the rainbow illustrate the emergence of Illusion. Raindrops and
neurons are posited as ex post facto "explanations" and "causes"
fficient for the task.
davew
On Sat, May 14, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Ok, happy robots in hot tubs doesn’t do it for you. How about some machine
> learning generated poems?
>
> https://sites.research.google/versebyverse/
>
>
>> On May 14, 2022, at 4
system). If one wants to go further
> and say there are some experiences that can’t, in principle, be shared,
> that’s fine, but then shut up about it already! There’s nothing to **talk**
> about because it is private **and** subjective **and** opaque.
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf
essure and temperature sensitivity.
> Have it sit in the tub and use some algorithm to learn the distribution
> of the sensors and how relates to the performance of its own motor
> system.
>
>> On May 13, 2022, at 3:36 PM, Prof David West wrote:
>>
>>
On 5/12/22 13:56, Jon Zingale wrote:
> An interesting property of turbulence is that it need not be a statement
> about fluids, but rather a property entailed by a system of equations.
McGilchrist would assert that the "reality" that is apprehended by the
left-brain is precisely that set of
Quotes:
*"A thing without oppositions ipso facto does not exist ... existence lies in
opposition."* C.S. Peirce.
*"It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth."
*Neils Bohr.
Questions:
What is the negation of evolution? Natural Selection? Survival of the
Just completed two weeks as a substitute teacher in a high-school business
classes that are offered as advanced placement with the possibility of earning
college credit.
All of the students did no work, spent every minute of class on cell phones.
About 40% added talking, walking about the
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