quick111

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by quick111 12y ago
I don't think the drive is anything to do with post-apocalyptic. Its more to do with decoupling from dependency on the "rat race" as much as possible.
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by quick111 12y ago
His TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63Cy64p2lQ His OSE - https://www.youtube.com/user/marcinose/videos Looks like the initial ambitions have been scaled back to what they use to be, at
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by quick111 12y ago
I have a lot of love for python but when I want to achieve something that is easy in other languages but not available in Python because "thats not Pythonic" for some reason I think Stockholm Syndrome.
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by quick111 12y ago
I often think about exactly both these points. We are so far behind in terms of research compared to particle physics because we don't have the ability to destructively smash consciousness apart just to see what falls out over and over
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by quick111 12y ago
Yes we can capture a cubic meter of a wave at an instant of time and explain everything about it being a wave. We could do the same with a brain, freeze it in an instant of time. We might me able to tell what memories it is recalling now,
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by quick111 12y ago
> Why is that a problem? Totally not a problem, except you very quickly fall down the slippery slope of mystical nonsense :D If we cannot define the boundary of consciousness (the smallest conscious system) eg, we take a conscious human
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by quick111 12y ago
Sadly the more you think about the "Hard Consciousness Problem" the more it becomes like "mystical nonsense". The more you reduce the mind into being computable physical process the more it becomes a choice (or a frustra