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• Skinner Should Have Meditated

  Behaviourism’s big problem is that it refers to the skin as the border of the person. This makes all the “internals” eerie thingies, subject to mentalist blabla that, from that external perspective, can never be understood. Therefore, Skinner always argued that the enactor is the “speaker”, thoughts being mere stimuli and unrelated to will.

  Posted Jul 1, 12:10 am, Author Dana Stoll

• Lawrence Krauss: The Border between Reason and Nonsense

  Krauss is the first guy I hear saying what I’ve preaching for years: The question where the universe came from or what caused it makes no sense.

  If time and space arise with the universe, there is no causality or locus outside of it. You’re simply asking a question that points outside of the universe’s domain. Those questions can be asked, but they are pure nonsense.

  Posted Jul 1, 12:08 am, Author Dana Stoll

• Thomas Osbourne: IFT Complexity Workshop

  Your talk must be interesting if there’s Leonard in the audience ;)

  I wonder how many classes I’d have to take to really dig the math of this. And I did quite some college math.
  

  
  

  Posted Jul 1, 12:04 am, Author Dana Stoll

• Susskind: Entanglement and Complexity

  This is really hard stuff for non-particle physicists like me.

  But there is one takeaway at the end that is highly interesting for computer scientists and complex thinkers: Boundary phenomenon on a surface, that are subject to chaotic behaviour may be described by a blue-shifted shockwave in the interior much more easily.

  Thus, the math that is used to describe these phenomena may be a new way to get more order into chaotic phenomena that are yet difficult to grasp. 

  Posted Jul 1, 12:02 am, Author Dana Stoll

• Meaning is Reverse Causality

  I have to get back to this model of time as causality.

  Vygotsky proposed that the only intrinsic function in the human mind is generalisation. The generalisation is the meaning. Spencer-Brown described the same act as a distinction. This is all mainstream constructivist view.

  If Entropy is a continuous, statistical measure of discrete causality that increases as the causal tree grows, and Shannon is right that anti-Entropy is a statistical measure of Information …

  … then Meaning as experienced by living beings is the direct discrete opposite of causality. 

  Posted Jul 1, 12:00 am, Author Dana Stoll

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