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Mick Wright

['Member']Joined: January 07, 2021 at 18:45Last active: February 06, 2021 at 09:341 discussions14 comments

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Yes I'd agree, and you know what? Well despite seeing this, its not going to be held back is it? Pandoras box has already been opened, and your sugges...
February 06, 2021 at 08:33
Where I agree, I'm not talking about the potential for machine awareness, or phenomenological consciousness, or perception. Nor am I particularly conc...
February 01, 2021 at 17:35
As it turns out your brain really does assign weights and biases... or , well more accurately the dendrites and axons reduce from less activity and fi...
February 01, 2021 at 17:28
Hmmm... Mr. Data in Star Trek is also a fictional character right... and that Sci-Fi series ended before machine learning took off. I'm sure it was kn...
January 25, 2021 at 12:35
To caveat the idea of speed... I'm talking about scope for compute, not cycles per second. Computers are now and have been since inception 'faster' th...
January 25, 2021 at 12:10
Smolen, hmmm... Still haven't read his last book. But he is after all the only person so far that has solved for the problem of time. I can't understa...
January 25, 2021 at 11:56
Einsteins point was that the passage and memory of time, is persistent but an illusion but that there is in fact an actual process that we called time...
January 11, 2021 at 23:01
No, pain is a process translated as such by your brain, so the more BRAIN cells you have the more capacity for pain you might have. But its also not t...
January 11, 2021 at 22:47
Yes but code is deterministic.... even the Rand function is deterministic.... I suppose a quantum generated random number is not but thats not coding,...
January 11, 2021 at 06:59
Does this question assume some hypothetical universe where the future is pretty much already written, or deterministic, about to take place no matter ...
January 11, 2021 at 06:10
Well, this of course assumes we narrow down the discussion of computed answers or solutions our hypothetical computer is capable of to machines that r...
January 11, 2021 at 05:51
"that a "pointer" indicates who I am in the respective world. This pointer could be called "soul", even if it only bears a distant resemblance to the ...
January 08, 2021 at 19:30
Wouldn't 'causation' only come into effect when time became manifest? So what you are asking is before time when did the universe start. Which is like...
January 07, 2021 at 19:54
I think its a little more than imagination with monopoles, its inference. Only the bravest of physicists will announce the whole monopole thing is ima...
January 07, 2021 at 19:34
The Ying/Yang things is rather interesting. Interesting in that in general I reject this in all but a digital or classical physics framework. It seems...
January 07, 2021 at 19:19