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How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness
How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness wildcat2030: Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. Consciousness, I argue in a new paper, may be caused…
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protoslacker: “In a century of study, no one has managed to make these knots talk. But recent breakthroughs have begun to unpick this tangled mystery of the Andes, revealing the first signs of phonetic symbolism within the strands. Now two anthropologists are closing in on the Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone. That could finally…
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View this post on Instagram </a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BqJDnw2nAqT/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by *~ MIQUELA ~* (@lilmiquela)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2018-11-14T01:01:01+00:00">Nov 13, 2018 at 5:01pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote>n//www.instagram.com/embed.js","poster":[{"url":"https://66.media.tumblr.com/68f6fab5c1500d2f913944faff4c8850/tumblr_pi5uykFHd11qb76wj_540.jpg","type":"image/jpeg","width":480,"height":270}],"attribution":{"type":"app","url":"https://instagram.com/p/BqJDnw2nAqT","app_name":"instagram","display_text":"lilmiquela – Checked a dream off my…
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Common sense: the Chomsky/Piaget debates come to AI
mostlysignssomeportents: In 1975, Noam Chomsky and Jean Paiget held a historic debate about the nature of human cognition; Chomsky held that babies are born with a bunch of in-built rules and instincts that help them build up the knowledge that they need to navigate the world; Piaget argued that babies are effectively blank slates that…
