Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What Can Brain Cells on a Microchip Tell Us About Intelligence? - The Royal Society of Victoria
rsv.org.au
Neuroscience
Matthew Sparks • 4 cards
Contemporary neuroscience identifies a particular part of the brain, sometimes called “the interpreter,” as the source of the familiar internal narrative that gives us our sense of self. Two prominent neuroscientists have recently characterized the quirky, undependable quality of the tale told by the interpreter. Antonio Damasio describes it this w
... See moreStephen Mitchell • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Self, Consciousness, AI
Creighton • 8 cards
Over the past several years, Roger Penrose, a noted physicist and philosopher, has suggested that fine structures in the neurons called tubules perform an exotic form of computation called “quantum computing.” Quantum computing is computing using what are called “qu bits” which take on all possible combinations of solutions simultaneously. Just bec... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Many researchers interested in understanding our cognitive evolution have focused their efforts on revealing whether our closest primate relatives and other obviously smart creatures like whales and dolphins are capable of purposeful behavior in the same way that humans are. Being purposeful requires an intuitive grasp of causality, the ability to ... See more
James Suzman • Work
I still think that we are thinking about scaling of network-based intelligence looking at this particular network. An extended network of machines and humans in larger networks facilitated by smaller and increasingly embodied devices might in themselves add an AI-augmented neocortex to our (human-machine) systems. Intelligence will continue to emer... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
Fundamentally, the brain is a prediction machine, and that is the driving engine behind its constant self-reconfiguration. By modeling the state of the world, the brain reshapes itself to have good expectations, and therefore to be maximally sensitive to the unexpected.
David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
If you are familiar with the Ship of Theseus, you may relate to the philosophical dilemma of determining what physical parts remain a self if the body and self changes over time. Answering the question "What scientific concept ought to be more widely known?", Knutson explains the research on how humans tend to relate to their future selves, which i... See more