Thibaut

2/ What does it tell us about the future of Artificial Intelligence?

1/ Machines are designed/manufactured following identical copies of a single blueprint. Organisms are evolved/shaped by natural selection.

The extraordinary arises step by step out of the ordinary.

The same is true for human behavior: "individual action" often follows different rules than "group action."

Observing phenomenon on a different scale can radically change how things behave (think Newtonian Laws vs. Quantum Physics).

Mathematics is a language to express scientific laws.

Entropy is the arrow of time. Events occur because things gets worse.

Wheeler on General Theroy of Relativity: “Matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matters how to move.”

The sense of self by being inextricably linked to the sense of others allows interpretation of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others.

We are not looking for finding the meaning of life but the feeling of being alive.

While new, I find the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster profoundly humanist and I like the religious introspection that it triggers.

All religious belief system are rooted in the ethic of reciprocity: behave as you would wish others to behave.

Memes are to culture what genes are to biology. They replicate themselves by being passed from one mind to another.

The free-rider problem is leader’s burden of maintaining cooperation in the group.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Simple example, throw a tennis ball from the top of Eiffel Tower. Now, do the same with a pigeon. (2/2)

What is the difference between physics and biology? Inanimate follow laws of physics while animate have their own purpose. (1/2)

Entropy, as a force which acts on an organism, is equal to the basal metabolism rate maintaining homeostasis.

"The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." — Thomas Henry Huxley

The truth that reality is what it is - not what we think it should be or would like it to be.