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Dying in a finite universe
In his book Infinite In All Directions (2002), Freeman Dyson, one of the tallest intellectual giants of our times, attempts to rescue eschatology from the specious grip of religion and teleology with a mix of scientific reasoning and informed speculation. During this, when describing the big crunch, which is one way our universe could end, he moves smoothly from the rational track he has been sprinting on to a less exact but more pertinent and romantic description. Continue reading
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A latent monadology: An extended revisitation of the mind-body problem
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 a certain class of people identified solely by cultural practices “spill … Continue reading
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Tagged 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
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