Openness seems epistemically indistinguishable from computational irreducibility?
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Mathematical Models of Consciousness Community Launches Initiative
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Defining Purely Algorithmic Systems: Penrose and Computational Theory
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How do you define a 'purely algorithmic system'? In the sense that Penrose uses it, it's equivalent to computational (constructive math, operations on representations via successive state transitions)
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Machine Consciousness Salon with Stephen Wolfram at Internet Archive
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In celebration of CIMC's inaugural event, @stephen_wolfram and me will organize a Machine Consciousness Salon at the Internet Archive in SF on Thursday (6pm), and you are invited!
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AI Will Solve Physics Problems in Our Lifetime
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I am confident that AI will solve physics in our lifetime
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Geographic Factors in Tech Giant Development: Russia and UK
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Of course not, but the idea that Google could have been built in Russia or Tesla in the UK is debatable
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Positivism and Methodologism: Science’s Institutional Crisis
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Perhaps the culprit is not actually Enlightenment, but the institutionalization of the sciences as naively positivist midwittery in the 20th century, which led to methodologism and stagnant or regressive paradigms in psychology, sociology and the humanities?
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Enlightenment Paradox: Science’s Gap in Understanding Consciousness
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It seems paradoxical that the Enlightenment led to an inability to rationally explain selfhood, gods and consciousness as psychological phenomena. The rebellion against religion liberated the natural sciences, but left an epistemological gap in understanding mind and meaning.
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Twitter Research Should Enable Typo Correction Feature
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I wish twitter research had discovered a way to let us fix typos
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Meaning as Evolutionary Adaptation in Super-Organisms
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Our experience of meaning is bound to our participation in a super-organism, the need for meaning is an evolutionary adaptation, analogous to multicellularity. Loss of meaning relates to a perceived absence or dissolution of the super-organism.