Bohr on Nature

Bohr


What's interesting about this is that what Bohr thinks we can say about nature is also what we think we can say about consciousness. We recognize consciousness by behavior (cf.
Searle's Chinese Room), but we cannot say whether consciousness is produced by that behavior or whether it is revealed by that behavior.

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Cognitive Bias


“Cogito, ergo sum” is the epitome of the fallacy of cognitive bias.

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Fiat Lux & Anthropology


Before God said, "Let there be light," He said, "Let there be darkness" and "let there be chaos."

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AGI


If AGI doesn't include insanity as well as intelligence then it may be artificial, but it won't be general.

In "
Gödel, Escher, Bach" Hofstadter wrote:

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it is done; it is always looking for, and often finding, patterns.1

Over 400 pages later, he repeats this idea:

This drive to jump out of the system is a pervasive one, and lies behind all progress and art, music, and other human endeavors. It also lies behind such trivial undertakings as the making of radio and television commercials.2

For intelligence to be general, the ability to jump must be in all directions.


[1] Pg. 37
[2] Pg. 478
This idea is repeated in
this post from almost 13 years ago. Have I stopped jumping outside the lines?
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Quote


Those who don't learn from the future are doomed to live to regret it.1



[1] In response to a
post by John D. Cook on X, with a quote from the novel Dune: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
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