An entertaining pro-blackboard piece: Doron Zeilberger’s 60th Opinion Technorati Tags: general
Browsing Posts published in November, 2007
In a seminar talk I gave last week I spoke about viewing individual humans as neurons which reinforce/dampen certain ideas. Apparently, a New York Times author thought similarly and Ben Goertzel comments on the idea: The Singularity Institute Blog : Blog Archive : On Becoming a Neuron Technorati Tags: singularity
I guess this is the same idea I presented a couple of days ago in this post (which incidentally was also inspired by an Overcoming Bias blogpost): Overcoming Bias: The Simple Math of Everything I called it a concept hierarchy of science; and mathematics is nothing else than concepts in relation. (the uninterpreted equations are [...]
I knew the turtle anecdote quoted in the post below, but never thought about applying it to knowledge – good move! Open Society: Justificationists All the Way Down Technorati Tags: philosophy of science
Originally, Qrio was scheduled for commercial release, but the project was stopped unfortunately (by Sony – the robot dog AIBO was cancelled too). These were very sad and unfortunate news for robot enthusiasts – and now we have these news from encouraging experiments with Qrio (probably a prototype): Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly | [...]
I found this per chance on one of my wanderings through the web: “Philosophy as a Blood Sport”, by Norman Swartz, Dept. of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University Philosophy indeed has the feel of combat to it – but, I wonder, is philosophy without verbal combat even possible? Technorati Tags: philosophy
I have often said that a big problem for any “free will” philosophy is the influence of the unconscious on our decisions; and if we are not even conscious of the information that biases our decisions, how can one speak of free will in any sensible way? Finally I have a paper which I can [...]
An experiment showing how number symbols and abstract quantities are processed in the prefontal cortex (in monkeys). Of interest to anybody interested in a naturalized mathematics/logic (of course, this is just the beginning…). How the Brain Maps Symbols to Numbers: Scientific American Technorati Tags: cognitive science, mathematics
