Thursday, 19 January 2023
J.R. Lucas and Kurt Gödel Rage Against the Machines
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The philosopher J.R. Lucas argued that all minds must be “alive” and (it can safely be assumed) human, not “dead” and “ossified” like “mach...
Friday, 6 January 2023
Two Fundamentals of Emergence: Emergent Properties and Downward Causation
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Psychologist Stephen Kosslyn tells us that “there are aggregates which produce properties that can’t be predicted entirely from the elements...
Wednesday, 28 December 2022
Quantum Theory as Medieval Necromancy
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The physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) once stated the following: “Somewhere in quantum theory, the distinction between reality an...
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