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Carlos E. Perez
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Damasio in his book 'The Strange Order of Things' argues that the core of condition lies in homeostasis. I agree with this generalization. But let me work out in a
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The interview with CNBC of @chamath is a much watch because there is so much insight hidden underneath.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvEWez59fbI There are many things that caught my attention. The one thing was
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It would be absurd to believe that given the brain's massively parallel construction that there is only a single thread of cognition. Consciousness is that illusion that there is only
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Walter Pitts, the other half of the duo that formulated the first model of an artificial neuron, burned his PhD thesis and drunk himself to death. Why? Ludwig Wittgenstein, after
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We wake up each day with the same attention budget as everyone else. This is the one thing all humans equally share. Spending that attention budget by doing this is
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Gibson came up with the word affordance. It's derived from the verb 'afford'. I've always liked the term since it implies the recognition of possibilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance There's a problem
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Language has many side-effects (or unintended consequences) that are critical to recognize if we seek to understand general intelligence. One side effect that we frequently don't realize is that the
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It's not clear for many how GPT-3 is primed to get the right outputs. Let me try to explain it with just a few tweets. The input to GPT-3 is
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One cannot avoid the conclusion that synapses evolved out of the same mechanisms as multicellularity. What binds bodies together shares the same origins as what binds brains together.https://phys.org/news/2020-06-evolution-synapse.html What
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