Four Gods
Atheists and enlightened religious people often talk past each other, because they associate quite different concepts with 'God'. Let us attempt to sort them.
Joscha Bach
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Why I don’t think that Quantum Computers will work, ever
I have a nagging suspicion that we misinterpret quantum mechanics. I am probably wrong, but I believe that quantum computers may always be outperformed by classical algorithms.
Computational Meta-Psychology
Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?
No, the Universe is not a Brain
Could the structure the universe support brain-like activities at interplanetary distances?
On Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky has passed away from us last night. Nobody else in the 20th century has influenced our work and our way of looking at what makes us human like Marvin did.
How to build an artificially intelligent plant
Ever wondered how to infuse an ordinary houseplant with some intelligence, while keeping its personality?
Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality?
Elon Musk recently suggested that we likely do not live in a base reality, but in a simulation. He even puts the probability at a billion to one. Is he correct?
From elementary computation to ethics?
Some preliminary thoughts and arguments on the feasibility of ultimate norms, starting from a foundation of general computationalism
From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness
The question: “Who are we?”: — How does our mind work, and how does it relate to the universe? — is the most fascinating riddle we humans can ask ourselves. I believe that the field
Machine Dreams - Dreaming Machines
Artificial Intelligence provides a conceptual framework to understand mind and universe in new ways, clearing the obstacles that hindered the progress of philosophy and psychology. Let us see how AI