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Alex Dobrenko • 3 cards
Science, it struck me then, is a guide to thinking, not a thought: an endless process of becoming.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Although these measures are only in their nascent stages, they show us that quantifying biological knowledge—information that aids far-from-equilibrium survival—can someday be a tractable task.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
Crawford elaborated in an interview. “When you have this enchanted determinism, you say, we can’t possibly understand this. And we can’t possibly regulate it when it’s clearly so unknown and such a black box,” she says. “And that’s a trap.”
John Herrman • Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
At times it feels ironic that the entertainment industry depicts scientists as those who might someday—in some fantastic, unreal world—create the superhuman (think Iron Man); the irony arises from the fact that even the most miniscule and mundane action in a scientific experiment—pipetting some liquid, counting a few cells, or imaging the unimaged—
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the scientific method
Prashanth Narayan and • 7 cards