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An entertaining pro-blackboard piece:
Doron Zeilberger’s 60th Opinion

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In a seminar talk I gave last week I spoke about viewing individual humans as neurons which reinforce/dampen certain ideas.
Apparently, a New York Times author thought similarly and Ben Goertzel comments on the idea:
The Singularity Institute Blog : Blog Archive : On Becoming a Neuron

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I guess this is the same idea I presented a couple of days ago in this post (which incidentally was also inspired by an Overcoming Bias blogpost):
Overcoming Bias: The Simple Math of Everything
I called it a concept hierarchy of science; and mathematics is nothing else than concepts in relation. (the uninterpreted equations are only meaningless [...]

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I knew the turtle anecdote quoted in the post below, but never thought about applying it to knowledge - good move!
Open Society: Justificationists All the Way Down

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Originally, Qrio was scheduled for commercial release, but the project was stopped unfortunately (by Sony - the robot dog AIBO was cancelled too).
These were very sad and unfortunate news for robot enthusiasts - and now we have these news from encouraging experiments with Qrio (probably a prototype):
Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly | LiveScience
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I found this per chance on one of my wanderings through the web:
“Philosophy as a Blood Sport”, by Norman Swartz, Dept. of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Philosophy indeed has the feel of combat to it - but, I wonder, is philosophy without verbal combat even possible?

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I have often said that a big problem for any “free will” philosophy is the influence of the unconscious on our decisions; and if we are not even conscious of the information that biases our decisions, how can one speak of free will in any sensible way? Finally I have a paper which I can [...]

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An experiment showing how number symbols and abstract quantities are processed in the prefontal cortex (in monkeys). Of interest to anybody interested in a naturalized mathematics/logic (of course, this is just the beginning…).
How the Brain Maps Symbols to Numbers: Scientific American

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