Tag Archives: complexity

Quora – AI and mankind

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Quora – How will artificial intelligence influence mankind? This is an extremely deep and interesting question. Artificial intelligence isn’t a singular thing, it is a spectrum of classes of systems spanning many orders of magnitude, and exponentially expanding for the … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic – Post Modernism

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Foundations of logic – Has the post modern revolution come full circle? If you believe everything is socially constructed, then you have already been indoctrinated and are beyond influence by evidence. Social construction is one influence among many – and … Continue reading →

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Quora – atomic structure

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Quora – If an electron is negative and a proton positive, what keeps the electron from flying right into the nucleus of an atom (opposites attract, right?)? Is it merely the speed of the electron? Some good answers here already. … Continue reading →

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Zat – rationality and joy

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Zat Rana – The Rationalist’s Paradox: How to Not Cheat Yourself Out of Life’s Joys Hi Zat, Align with your general thesis, and it seems to me reasonably clear why we cannot ever rationalize anything completely. If you do the … Continue reading →

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Medium – Mathematical Reality

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

A foundations of logic link to the medium article What is Mathematical Reality? It seems entirely probable to me that reality need not be causal in any hard sense, and it is undeniable that it is a very close approximation … Continue reading →

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London Futurists – Mental Health

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

The future of mental health How does one define mental health? From a fundamentalist religious point of view, it means being able to hold a singular absolute truth above all evidence and question. From a judicial perspective it is what … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic group – understanding self

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Foundations of Logic – “In concise words, tell us how the idea that we cannot know who we are and be who we are at the same time can be overcome.” What does the best evidence we have seem to … Continue reading →

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