emergence

2 posts

If AI is among us, would we know?

Mar 4, 2016 1 min read

Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness. The first aliens that human beings encounter will probably not be from some oth…

A latent monadology: An extended revisitation of the mind-body problem

Nov 14, 2012 10 min read

Uncategorized computational theory of mind conjugate variables connectionism Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics dispositional attribution emergence Gottfried Leibniz human brain network multiplicity partial differentiation rationalism reverse-engineering Roger Penrose The Monadology Walter Pitts Warren McCulloch wavefunction collapse

In an earlier post, I'd spoken about a certain class of mind-body interfacing problems (the way I'd identified it): evolution being a continuous process, can psychological changes effected in…