Barfield calls the early peoples' common sense "original participation," in that with their sense perceptions there was an extra-sensory participation with the object being sensed. While it is difficult to know what original participation is "like," there are some indications of […]
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The world presented by perception is nothing like reality
This is interesting. On one side you’ll find researchers scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a three-pound lump of gray matter obeying nothing more than the ordinary laws of physics can give rise to first-person conscious experience. This is the aptly named "hard problem." […]
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
While Myerson has called Nash’s vision of game theory “one of the outstanding intellectual advances of the 20th century,” he sees correlated equilibrium as perhaps an even more natural concept than Nash equilibrium. He has opined on numerous occasions that “if there is intelligent life on other […]
Natural Language Understanding Systems do not have to be in the cloud
Well this is a nice find. One of the best NLUs out there does NOT run in the cloud. They're quite pleased with this, because there is no need to expose your data to the liabilities of trusting cloud services. It achieves comparable outcomes than Alexa or Siri, while running fully on device, and […]
Neural net methodology leads to brain study's ability to read minds
This is interesting, arising out of the sort of recursive study of brains using neural net methodologies. In short, we're finding the building blocks -- common across cultures and not word-based -- of complex thoughts. The end of this journey is definitely the ability of a computer to read minds. […]
Recognizing when someone approaches math intuitively
Since it took me years to figure out that I learn math intuitively, not rationally as most mathematicians do, I find the distinction between the two methods fascinating. Once I figured that point out, everything became much easier because I finally knew where I was standing. I knew that my approach […]